New Media Contemporary Presents: Live Film Score Series
L' INFERNO: LIVE SCORE BY MONTOPOLIS
Montopolis is an indie chamber music group from Austin, Texas that performs the works of composer Justin Sherburn. Their genre-busting music uses inventive instrumentation to create "stunning and transcendent" (Austin Chronicle) concerts. Their programs are audience-engaging, multi-media events that combine live music with film and interactive storytelling. The Montopolis musicians include members of the Austin Symphony, Okkervil River, Tosca String Quartet, and the Polyphonic Spree.
L’Inferno (1911) is the first feature length horror film ever released. An adaptation of Dante’s classic journey through hell, this masterpiece of silent film employs elaborate costumes, special effects, and set design to create an awe-inspiring and ethereal world. The original Montopolis score brings new life to this horror classic with a mix of psych rock, dark wave and terrifying sound effects performed live. Based in Austin, Texas, Montopolis is following up their critically acclaimed national tour of Man with a Movie Camera.
View the trailer for this performance and screening HERE.
Kent Evans is a Dallas based ambient musician who uses layers of synths and samples to create dense worlds of sound. Sometimes drifting into noise but always aiming to be cathartic, his songs usually have many peaks and valleys within.
Preston Light, aka Curatorial, is a Fort Worth, TX, ambient musician and composer. His music serves as paintings you can hear, sit in, and be soothed by. Through the process of song, he hopes that listeners will find a space to dream about a peaceful life and find a piece of that for themselves. This concept stems from his painting practice in which the works are intended to be healing totems in the places they hang. Wanting to extend that positive message, Curatorial was born. His second album, Other Realms, was recorded at the neofeminist creative residency Centre Pompadour in Ercourt, France, during the summer of 2023 and was released in January 2024.