VIDEO MUSICS II: ALEXIS GIDEON & SHELLEY SHORT

Building on his genre-busting animated/stop motion video opera “Video Musics” (2009 Sickroom(US) / Africantape(EU)), Alexis Gideon, after two years of dogged research and collaboration, is set to premiere that work’s follow-up, “Video Musics II: Sun Wu-Kong”. An one-hour multimedia video opera based on the 16th-century Chinese novel “The Journey to the West,” “Video Musics II” joins the brightest lights of contemporary animation (Becca Taylor (Punk Planet, Arthur); Cynthia Star (Coraline, Moral Orel, Robot Chicken); Ezra Claytan Daniels (Darkhorse Comics, Top Shelf Comics)) with the most promising talents of contemporary music (Rachel Blumberg (M Ward, Arch Cape); Cory Gray (Norfolk & Western, Carcrashlander); Shelley Short (Hush)) to create an aural and visual universe that gleefully transcends both media. Is it film or music, high art or pop? Gideon’s work would fit snugly at either the Whitney Biennial or SXSW, which is to say it cannot be contained, really, by either venue. Marked throughout by the ambition, commitment to detail, and refusal to settle that have earned Gideon a cult following on both sides of the pond…

Formerly of the Chicago duo Princess , Alexis Gideon has extensive experience as both a musician and producer. He has toured nationally with Dan Deacon and Shelley Short as well as played with Barr , Marnie Stern , Panther , Parts and Labor , Zs , People , Matt and Kim and many, many others. He has produced records (and provided guitar instrumentation) for Shelley Short (Hush) and White Hinterland (Dead Oceans). He has played guitar for Carcrashlander (Parks and Records).

http://vimeo.com/12634051

“Shelley Short achieves the neat trick of employing sparse instrumentation and often glacially paced tempos to create a vibe that’s positively radiant. . .” — No Depression

“Her soft voice flutters effortlessly over quick flights of melody and slides langourously into sustained notes, not a hint of artifice glinting through” –BLURT

“Drowsy, intimate, beautiful alt-country from the Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter extraordinaire. Mazzy Star meets Emmylou Harris.” — GIANT

http://www.myspace.com/alexisgideon
http://www.myspace.com/shelleyshort

Veranstaltungsort und Adresse

Astra Stube, Max-Brauer-Allee 200, 22769 Hamburg

11. Dezember 2010

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  11.12.2010

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VIDEO MUSICS II: ALEXIS GIDEON & SHELLEY SHORT

Diese Veranstaltung in Hamburg (Hamburg) wurde von gretajohan veröffentlicht. VIDEO MUSICS II: ALEXIS GIDEON & SHELLEY SHORT ist den Rubriken Konzert und Kino zugeordnet.