Author
Stefan Christoff
A 10 minute piano composition recorded in Montreal on December 8th 2006.... This composition was composed by Stefan Christoff for an upcoming cultural event in Montreal entitled ' Like Two Rivers into a Coffin', full details listed below. This composition was recorded on a mini-disc on a cold winter day.... [Do not use this music without permission!]
LIKE TWO RIVERS INTO A COFFIN
Instruments of sound and disquiet in Palestine
A Recollecting the Document Project
WHEN:
Tuesday, Dec. 12th, 2006 at 8pm
WHERE:
La Sala Rossa
4848 St-Laurent
Montreal (Metro Laurier)
Through a live reconstruction of documentary objects in quadraphonic sound, silent video, moving sculpture, and multiple live music performances the Recollecting the Document collective seeks to explore the cultural space in which documentary lives and is live.
Recollecting the Document is a collective of media and social justice activists, documentarists, musicians, artists - in short: community members from Montreal engaged in active struggle for autonomous media. We seek to confront and oppose the dominant politics of representation, whose images and sounds are consistently complicit to a bankrupt foreign policy and a genocidal national program on Turtle Island. We seek to redefine and overthrow institutional definitions of so-called journalistic bias in favor of an open and transparent advocacy journalism. We reject our role as passive consumers of vanguard media, and are instead authors and listeners, responsible to our local communities and global citizenship.
WHO:
* Four speaker Sound Compositions by:
Seth Porcello, an independent journalist with CKUT. Recently returned from a trip to Palestine where he lived and worked as a documentarist and news editor with the International Middle East Media Center or IMEMC.org. and
Alden Penner, an independent musician living in Montreal who has scored music to the films "The Hamster Cage" and "Surfing the Waste: a musical documentary about dumpster diving", as well as performed with many bands, including The Unicorns and Please Don't Put Charles On The Money. He will be performing additional sounds using a Jupiter 4 synthesizer.
* Simultaneous video translation by:
Brett Story, documentary filmmaker, director of "Going Condo: the gentrification of St. Henri", is also active in community news with CKUT. She is currently working on a film about the industrial town of Sarnia, Ontario.
* Piano performance by:
Tadamon's Stefan Christoff. Tadamon! (Solidarity!, in Arabic) is a Montreal-based collective of social-justice organizers & media activists, working to build relationships of solidarity with grassroots political movements for social and economic justice between Beirut & Montreal.
* Documentary sculpture by:
Long-time Montreal artist and activist Freda Guttman whose works examining the lessons of the 20th century have been displayed worldwide. She has also been very active with the IMEMC.
* Opening Act:
JERUSALEM IN MY HEART, a music project by Radwan Moumneh paying tribute to various middle eastern singers. He has played with the bands Cursed, Ire, and The Black Hand.
COST:
$5-10
The proceeds will go to a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, a broad coalition of palestinian solidarity groups aiming to sensitize the public regarding israeli apartheid.
* For more information please contact:
Recollecting the Document:
Alden Penner -
514-937-3744
aldenpenner@gmail.com
OR
Seth Porcello -
seth@resist.ca
E-mail
christoff[at]resist.ca