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july 14, 2007 artists' television access david michalak A night of films by David Michalak and stories narrated by Dean Santomieri, with music by Dean and violinist Angela Hsu. The evening featured special guest, Bob Marsh, reading the DADA poem �Seahorses and Flying Fish� by Hugo Ball with Man Ray�s Return to Reason projected. David Michalak projected The Spoken Word and other films that borrow their dialogue from phone messages, "How To", Instructional or other spoken word recordings. This show, after we enjoyed the wordplay of [music by the] eyeful presenting a night of eyefull [films], illustrated one of film-music's most dynamic tensions. In many of David's films shown that night, film was a secondary wrap-around for primary musical events: the media ecology of instructional audio, the archeology of telephone answering machine tapes. David seems to have created films as a way to fully realize music, not the other way around, and the audience is challenged to parse visual irony throughout. Similar to this, Dean Santomieri's storytelling, as riveting as Joe Frank's, uses both music and visuals as a vast lily pond of abstraction to place the audience in a state of immersive receptivity to the narrative. coming soon images audio video |
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