Music was integral to Warhol and the Factory with many of
the seminal acts of the sixties passing through the studio
during this period. Warhol directly collaborated with the seminal
group The Velvet Underground and was credited as a producer
on their debut album “The Velvet Underground and Nico”.
Warhol and his Factory collaborators, the Velvets among them,
were responsible for establishing a new style of multimedia
performance which they called The Exploding Plastic Inevitable,
with live bands, dancers, lights and live visuals happening
simultaneously on one stage, a style that is common place in
today's clubs and venues but was groundbreaking at the time.
As part of The Eternal Now the Model is presenting a series
of select music performances from contemporary acts that invoke
the spirit of the Factory; its emphasis on experimentation,
collaboration and visual representations of sound.
Tickets
Tickets for all events can be purchased in advance from the
Model Box Office.
Call in during opening hours or phone : 071 914 1405
Credit/ Laser Cards accepted. Email : tickets@modelart.ie
Sat 13 Oct I 8.30pm I €18/15
Composer, musician and producer Max Richter has collaborated
with Future Sound of London and Roni Size, produced the seminal Lookaftering for
Vashti Bunyan and released three solo albums of his own,
all preceded by a decade of work as a member of the noted
contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus. The stunning
quality of Richter’s music is best experienced live,
and for his model performance he will be joined by an ensemble
to perform works from his current album Songs From
Before, alongside a special performance of “from
the Art of Mirrors; a fusion of music and film by Max Richter
and avant garde UK film-maker Derek Jarman. Commissioned
by FUSELEEDS2006, ‘from The Art of Mirrors’ features
a new score by Max Richter performed to rarely seen footage
from the Derek Jarman Super8 film archive, performed by the
Max Richter Ensemble.
The 1970s was one of the most intensive periods
for Jarman’s film making. He used an 8mm camera
to create a series of precisely shot and beautifully crafted
short films that document his friends, the studio where he
worked, and his multifarious life in a riot of colour and visual
excitement. A selection of these films has been used
to create a work in which music
and image co-exist and interrelate in equal and unexpected
ways.
“With Songs
From Before….Richter shapes and organises
his densely layered, shimmering soundscape with elegant melodies
and delicate rhythms. For all its musical reflexivity and
expressive originality, at its core Richter's music burns
with an intense lyricism that is as exciting as it is moving” Irish
Times
myspace.com/maxrichtermusic
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The Model & Foggy Notions present
Sat 1 December I 8.30pm I €18/15
To mark The Eternal Now music season we’ve invited Ireland’s
leading independent music magazine, Foggy Notions, to select
an artist to bring to Sligo that they think best invokes the
atmosphere of the Factory era. Namely an act that glories in
redefining the live experience, that ignores the usual lazy
genre definitions and works to the beat of their own drum to
create an atmosphere and a sound that is distinct. So they’ve
invited musician/composer and performance artist Dan Deacon. Electro-acoustic
composer turned one man party starter and Wham City! ringleader
Dan Deacon hails from new York but calls Baltimore home. Here
he organises warehouse parties and live shows with the Wham
City! Collective of musicians, designers, artists and wackos
who address the concept of performance and spectacle in a truly
unique manner, never duplicating the same atmosphere twice.
Dan Deacon’s live performance is a unique,
raw barrier breaking exercise, involving one man and a table
of wired-up junk (mixers, lights, effects pedals,voice manipulation).
He never performs on the stage, always on the floor, with the
kids. He dances a lot, and he insists you dance a lot too.
www.myspace.com/dandeacon
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Sat 8 December I 8.30pm I €18/15
Choice Award nominee, and creator of one of the best Irish
albums of '06, Si Schroeder is a six-foot
hairy male who makes 'music'. This 'music' has generally
sounded like the combined contents of his record collection
(mostly classic sixties pop, scratchy old ethnic recordings
and the odd bleep or two), on top of which he layers ruminative,
whispered vocals about the tough times we all live in and
go through. His adventures have lately brought him from the
heart of Europe (Berlin) to the edge (Oslo), and an argumentative
sophomore album is currently in the works.
myspace.com/sischroeder
Cap Pas Cap are the even newer kids on the block who
have such a plethora of critical acclaim that it seems best
to let the press do the talking:
“Instruments and sounds tumble on top of each other,
all anchored by the rock solid funk of the rhythm section pushing
the likes of "Said Say It" onto the dancefloor with
joyful abandon.” Hot Press (9/10)
“they sound arty as hell while being masters of minimalism;
they make skewed electro-rock you can dance to…‘just
when you think it can't get any better, you catch them live” Irish
Times (4/5 stars)
myspace.com/cappascap
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