Composers Julia Wolfe (2015 Pulitzer Prize) and Michael Gordon, co-founders of the renowned NYC-based group, Bang on a Can, will join Cornell Cinema for a program of short films by experimental found footage filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia), for which they composed the soundtracks, including Light Is Calling, a meditation on the nature of random collisions, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an ancient film (music by Michael Gordon); and Porch, in which home movie footage harkens back to when afternoons & evenings were spent on the family porch (music by Julia Wolfe and libretto by Deborah Artman). Visit our website in September for complete program line-up.
Cosponsored with the Jewish Studies Program.
The next night (in Sage Chapel at 8pm) Michael and Julia will team up for a concert of their works that focuses on spirituality and music. It will feature music for choir, string quartet, amplified rock ensemble, and the premiere of Wolfe’s duo for cello and double bass with cellist John Haines-Eitzen and guest bassist Tomoya Aomori.
The concert is sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the Department of Music, and funded in part by a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts.