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People for Film re-opening Festival

Sisters with Transistors/Pinnel/Late Girl

Film screening followed by music

Lisa Rovner (PG*;1hr 26) Narrated by Laurie Anderson. English with English Subtitles.

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Sat 5 June 2021 // 19:30 / Cinema (SOLD OUT)

Tickets: £11/7

Also available to watch at home Streamed film and performance through Modernfilms link: https://greatmodernthings.com/it/item/sisters-with-transistors-at-star-and-shadow-cinema

 

We follow the Screening of Sisters with Transistors by a celebration of North East electronic & experimental music Link here: https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/online-players/stream/


SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.

The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel.

A film by Lisa Rovner; narrated by Laurie Anderson

Trailer Youtube https://youtu.be/YaWpCC-hYv0

* This film contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

Followed by a celebration of North East electronic & experimental music:

Pinnel
Pinnel is live looping voice and electronics solo project of Lindsay Duncanson. co -founder of Noizechoir. Lindsay creates what she calls 'vocal soundscapes' using live looping and her own voice, building compelling rhythms and rounds through little more than breath and punctuated utterances and creating an affect that's as much machine-like as
https://pinnel.bandcamp.com/music

Late Girl
Late Girl is an electronic project using found sound and programming music tools to create looming melodies that hint at a classical background and perverted samples of surreal humour. This is an experimental take on programmed beat music. Sometimes submerging written or sung stories with soundscape pieces, Late Girl externalises cultural observations with a personal take and irreverent approach. 
http://soundcloud.com/lategirl


Image description: Maryanne Amacher crouches down on the floor playing an old tape reel in a blue serene gallery-type room. They have bright white hair and wears spectacles, a black jumpsuit and white heavy boots.