Open Circuit Festival - Joanna MacGreggor and Andy Sheppard
8:00pm - 9:00pm /
Friday 4th March 2016
/ Venue: Leggate Theatre Victoria Gallery & Museum
Type: Music /
Category: Department
- Matt Fairclough
- Suitable for: Everyone
- Admission: Free
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This is an exciting opportunity to hear two of Britain’s most innovative and talented musicians. Taking inspiration from the music of Tom Waits, Johnny Cash and traditional American spirituals, pianist Joanna MacGregor and jazz saxophonist Andy Sheppard create a new live score for Sunrise, F.W. Murnau’s 1927 masterpiece of silent film. More well-known for his 1922 film Nosferatu, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Murnau made Sunrise in the twilight of the silent era, it became a swan-song for the vanishing medium and one of its greatest expressions, a story about innocence and experience, urban and rural America, love and violence. MacGregor and Sheppard, joined by the University composer Matt Fairclough, create a compelling and surprising new soundtrack for Sunrise, exploring the effect that music has on film and vice-versa.
This is an exciting opportunity to hear two of Britain’s most innovative and talented musicians. Taking inspiration from the music of Tom Waits, Johnny Cash and traditional American spirituals, pianist Joanna MacGregor and jazz saxophonist Andy Sheppard create a new live score for Sunrise, F.W. Murnau’s 1927 masterpiece of silent film. More well-known for his 1922 film Nosferatu, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Murnau made Sunrise in the twilight of the silent era, it became a swan-song for the vanishing medium and one of its greatest expressions, a story about innocence and experience, urban and rural America, love and violence. MacGregor and Sheppard, joined by the University composer Matt Fairclough, create a compelling and surprising new soundtrack for Sunrise, exploring the effect that music has on film and vice-versa.