RE: [microsound] stockhausen&quaybrothers on the telly tonight

[Rod Stasick <rostasi@xxxxxxxxx>]

i'm quite a bit behind on my mail and so i don't know if
the following has been presented - some "diary" listings
from a number a months ago about this stockhausen/quay
teaming:

(also, if anyone out there has already attended his
courses, please get in touch with me off-line. i'm going to
kuerten this august and have a few questions about rather
banal details - transportation, etc.)

R~
(http://rostasi.homepage.com)

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"On April 22nd 1999, Rodney Wilson and Peter Maniura of BBC
Television came to Kuerten to discuss a film project Sounds
on Music, organised by the BBC in London and NPS in Holland
to combine well-known names in music and in film into
mutual
projects. Their idea was to combine the Quay Brothers with
Stockhausen and, after looking at a video of some of their
work,
in particular The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, Stockhausen
was enthusiastic and agreed to provide the music for a film
which
would be created by the Quay Brothers..."


"...The next day, we were picked up at the hotel and driven
to a small film previewing theatre where the Quay Brothers
were
waiting together with Rodney Wilson to show their not-quite
finished film The Pencils Dream, which I mentioned earlier.
They
made this circa 20-minute film to a sound-track which
Stockhausen had specially made for this project. He was
very moved by
their poetic, wistful work and they promised to soon be
able to send the finished version. When Stockhausen and the
Quay
brothers met, there was immediate empathy. In the brief
meeting, they told him that as students, for a project in
graphic design
in Philadelphia, they had chosen to design an LP cover for
a Stockhausen recording, and that one of their first jobs
as graphic
designers was to make the cover for the first edition of
the book Stockhausen?Conversations with the Composer by
Jonathan
Cott (Simon and Schuster)..."


"...We received news from Rodney Wilson at the BBC that
Quay brothers / Stockhausen film project The Pencils Dream
"has
been selected for the Quinzaine des Realisateurs section of
the Cannes Film Festival. This is very prestigious. The
film is too
long for the short category of the festival, but was liked
so much that it is included in the more creative section
for full length
feature films". Further: "? once it is fully finished, we
would like to come to Cologne to project the film in 35 mm
for you. This
way you will be able to hear your music in optimum conditions..."

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