Vampyr With Live Score By Steven Severin
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Sat 18 February 2012 // 20:00
(Sat 18th Feb / 8pm / £8 advance, £10 on the door)
Acclaimed solo artist and founder member of the legendary Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steven Severin presents a mesmerising synthesis of sound and image, heightening our appreciation of the surreal nature of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr. This early Gothic chiller finds its aural counterpart in Severin's suitably textured score, a synthesised, highly atmospheric soundscape drawing the viewer rhythmically into the imagery on screen.
Since 2008, Severin has been performing live electronic accompaniment to silent films, startling audiences across the globe who have now come to expect the unexpected from the man who has crossed paths with such diverse luminaries as John Cale, Alan Moore, Lydia Lunch, Marc Almond, Merc Cunningham, Robert Smith and the Tiger Lillies. Vampyr is the third in his ongoing film accompaniment series - Music For Silents.
Loosely based on Sheridan Le Fanu's genre-defining, 1872 vampire tale, Carmilla (which preceded Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years), Vampyr follows the fortunes of Allan Gray, a young student of the occult, who takes rooms at a village inn, little realising that the region is cursed by vampires. In the dead of night, Gray receives a mysterious nocturnal visitor, who leaves behind a package labelled 'To be opened after my death' - and from that moment on, events take ever darker, weirder turns.
Acclaimed solo artist and founder member of the legendary Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steven Severin presents a mesmerising synthesis of sound and image, heightening our appreciation of the surreal nature of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr. This early Gothic chiller finds its aural counterpart in Severin's suitably textured score, a synthesised, highly atmospheric soundscape drawing the viewer rhythmically into the imagery on screen.
Since 2008, Severin has been performing live electronic accompaniment to silent films, startling audiences across the globe who have now come to expect the unexpected from the man who has crossed paths with such diverse luminaries as John Cale, Alan Moore, Lydia Lunch, Marc Almond, Merc Cunningham, Robert Smith and the Tiger Lillies. Vampyr is the third in his ongoing film accompaniment series - Music For Silents.
Loosely based on Sheridan Le Fanu's genre-defining, 1872 vampire tale, Carmilla (which preceded Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years), Vampyr follows the fortunes of Allan Gray, a young student of the occult, who takes rooms at a village inn, little realising that the region is cursed by vampires. In the dead of night, Gray receives a mysterious nocturnal visitor, who leaves behind a package labelled 'To be opened after my death' - and from that moment on, events take ever darker, weirder turns.