Center for New Music presents

film@C4NM: Fabricating Tom Ze + Brass Unbound

inspiring music on screen

When
Sat Mar 22, 2014
Where
Center for New Music
Time
2:00 pm
Cost
$7 - $10
Tags
Experimental Music, Music, Movies, Documentary

Description

From the Art Ensemble to Tom Ze, from Ascension to Zappa: FILM@C4NM presents some of the world's most compelling music documentaries and performance films. Screening astonishing sounds from around the planet, this film series is expressly designed to open music lovers' eyes and ears even further.

All shows are 2pm weekend matinees
Refreshments and special filmmaker and artists in-person
Admission: $10 General / $7 Members

This week: Musical Culture Gets Funky

FABRICATING TOM ZE
(2007 89 minutes Decios Matos, Jr.)
Filmed during a concert tour, this lively portrait charts the freewheeling musical world of Tom Zé, for whom a guitar and a vacuum cleaner have the same melodic potential. David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, and others credit Zé with revitalizing Tropicalia; whether you agree or no, Zé's samba mash-up of "Smoke on the Water" and "Hey Jude" will turn your head around. With musical legends Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil.
http://vimeo.com/user4305803

BRASS UNBOUND
(1993 106 minutes Johan van der Keuken)
When the colonial powers finally retreated from Asia and Africa, they left behind their military band instruments. This astonishing and amusing film shows how four very different post-colonial societies (in Nepal, Suriname, Indonesia, and Ghana) reshaped these imperialistic instruments to herald their own musical cultures. Colonel Bogey never sounded so funky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_van_der_Keuken

More Info

Link
http://centerfornewmusic.com
Call
(415) 275-C4NM
Email
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Location

  1. Center for New Music
    55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA