The Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble will make its debut performance at National Sawdust on March 10 for a special screening of the iconic film Metropolis set to the world premiere of original music by electronic artist/composer Ricardo Romaneiro, who is becoming known for his creative explorations harnessing the newest hardware and music software innovations in live performance.
The undertaking is due to more than its wordplay. Metropolis Ensemble founder, conductor, and Artistic Director Andrew Cyr explains: "Working with an adventurous artist like Ricardo Romaneiro is the reason I started Metropolis Ensemble. The extraordinary new sound system at National Sawdust coupled with Ricardo's recent successes live-scoring films (such as Terrence Malick's A Voyage in Time at BAM) brought forth the perfect conditions for this project to be imagined. More importantly, this film is increasingly relevant now for the city that inspired it."
Metropolis is a silent 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang. Set in a futuristic urban dystopia (inspired by Lang's first visit to New York in 1924), wealthy industrialists and business magnates reign from high-rise towers, while underground-dwelling workers toil to operate the great machines that power the city. The film is viewed as an accusative warning about the "profound impact technological progress has...as a subjugating and corrupting" influence over human society (Lane Roth, Film Quarterly).
Metropolis
Featuring Metropolis Ensemble performing the world premiere of
a live score by Ricardo Romaneiro
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
at National Sawdust (80 N 6th St / Brooklyn, NY)
Doors 7PM, show at 8PM
Tickets: $25 Advance; $30 door (plus fees)
Jacqueline Kerrod, electric harp
Keita Ogawa, toy percussion
Narek Arutyunian, clarinets, violin, viola, cello
Immanuel Wilkins, saxophones
JK Kim, drum synth
Chris Fishman, synthesizers
Ricardo Romaneiro, composer/electronic artist
Leo Leite, sound engineer
Andrew Cyr, conductor
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