Event: Japanese Silent Film Classic Receives New Soundtrack In Barbican World Premiere
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| Title | Japanese Silent Film Classic Receives New Soundtrack In Barbican World Premiere |
| Type of event | Film |
| Dates | 01 March 2010 |
| Time | 19:30 |
| Description | Nitin Sawhney & LSO: Yogoto No Yume Conducted by Kristjan Jarvi Tickets £25/35 Produced by the Barbican and LSO An extraordinary polymath as well as world-class producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral composer, Sawhney is unquestionably one of the most exciting creative talents in the UK today. Ranging across music, film, videogames, dance and theatre, he has also released seven studio albums - each one receiving critical acclaim and most getting awards. His most recent album, London Undersound, features performances from Paul McCartney, Anoushka Shankar, Natty and Imogen Heap amongst others and specially contributed artwork from Antony Gormley. An acclaimed flamenco guitarist and classical/jazz pianist, he has worked with an extraordinary range of artists including Sting, Sinead O'Connor, A R Rahman, Jeff Beck, Brian Eno, Fink, and Will Young. This soundtrack project sees Sawhney create a score for the 1933 silent feature Yogoto No Yume by esteemed Japanese director Mikio Naruse. A cutting-edge film of its time, it made repeated use of montage, a fractured chronology, and frequent close-ups. This film project follows more than forty film scores by Sawhney, as well as much scoring for TV - his music for Channel Four's Second Generation saw him nominated for the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Film and TV Composition (2004). Sawhney's musical ability to transcend cultural barriers has also gained him much recognition within the classical community. In 2006 Sawhney composed a 1hr 20-minute symphony to accompany A Throw of Dice, which premiered with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, London and has subsequently toured globally with international orchestras. In 2002 he worked with Akram Khan and Anish Kapoor, scoring the music to Khan's critically acclaimed choreographed work Kaash, and also wrote the music for Khan's Zero Degrees (nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, and designed by Antony Gormley). Sawhney also scored Khan's latest work, Bahok, for the Royal Ballet of China. More recent works in theatre include Simon McBurney's Olivier award-winning A Disappearing Number for Complicite (which ran for two season at the Barbican), the Mahabharata adaptation by Olivier award-winning writer Stephen Clarke and Jonathan Holmes' Fallujah. ‘I am delighted to be developing my live film compositions for the LSO with a new work for Naruse's powerful 1933 melodrama, Yogoto No Yume. Naruse’s stylish cinematography, centred around the tragic world of Japanese barmaid, Omitsu, expresses a hypnotically arresting contemporary social realism that is a gift to score’ - Nitin Sawhney |
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| Name | Barbican Centre |
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Silk Street Corporation of London EC2Y 8DS |
| Telephone | 020 7638 4141 |
| Website | www.barbican.org.uk |
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