Sunday, July 11 @ Blum Hall:
21:00 – Cat Lamb
21:30 – Byron Westbrook
22:00 – Benjamin Vida & Sergei Tcherepnin
Sunday, July 11 @ Ottoway Theater – festival finale:
22:30 – Performance by Nick Buffon
22:45 – Double Trouble - a double super 8 piece by Fern Silva and Andrew Lampert
Followed by
The Golden Mean: Charlemagne Palestine
By Andrew Lampert and Saul Levine
DOUBLE TROUBLE, a double super 8mm film duel/duet by Fern Silva and Andrew Lampert. “On July 3rd we visited the local demolition derby. Lampert filmed black and white, Silva shot color. Tonight we review the results side by side with live accompaniment.”
THE GOLDEN MEAN: CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
Andrew Lampert & Saul Levine. Edit: Fern Silva
video / 61 min. / 2009
In 2006 legendary composer/performer and raconteur Charlemagne Palestine appeared in Boston for the first time in over 30 years. On a stage festooned with teddy bears before a sold out house he told tales about Morton Feldman, imbibed cognac and simultaneously performed on two Steinway pianos. Andrew Lampert and Saul Levine ran into each other in the New England Conservatory lobby, each with video camera serendipitously in hand. Lampert took a seat in the front row on the left side of the aisle while Levine sat in the front row on the right. They both documented the performance in its entirety, each unaware of what the other one was focusing on. The Golden Mean is a stereo-vision portrait of the highly energetic, iconoclasitc Palestine that presents Lampert and Levine's footage side-by-side. A bewildering musical moment captured by pure providence and presented here for you.