Text Of Light in Mexico City
 

Even though it's not yet confirmed at the sonic calendar page, it seems like Text Of Light will be part of the line-up of this year's Festival de Mexico in Mexico City.

Confirmed acts according to this page:

MELVINS / THE RESIDENTS / EVAN PARKER + CHRIS CORSANO
+ JOHN EDWARDS + JOHN RUSSELL / TEXT OF LIGHT
MAJA RATKJE / EARTH / MARK DRESSER + REMI ÁLVAREZ
...KAN MIKAMI / AARON DILLOWAY / C SPENCER YEH / MATTIN /
MANRICO MONTERO / GREGG KOWALSKY / GERMÁN BRINGAS
JUAN JOSÉ RIVAS / MAURICIO VALDÉS

Currently there are tickets available for Melvins & Earth on March 19, and The Residents on March 15.






If i miss Text Of Light's gig, you all have my permission to kill me.

nice!

So far i have my ticket for Earth & Melvins. Haven't purchased one for The Residents, 'cause i don't have an idea yet of how much would the tickets cost for the other events. I'd like to get to all of those shows, but i'm gonna have to spend money on transportation and a (perhaps) seedy motel. I'm possibly gonna have to skip some performances if the costs are too high for me in the end.

Anyway, there's still some lack of information. All is a bit vague right now, but i've got plenty of hope that i'll be there.

Text of Light
Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Alan Licht, Tim Barnes, Ulrich Krieger y Stan Brakhage (EU)

Jueves 17 de marzo, 19:30
Cineteca Nacional (sala 2)
Donativo : $ 250

Text of Light fue formado en 1999 con la idea de improvisar música para las películas de Stan Brakhage y otros miembros del cine norteamericano avant-garde de los cincuenta y sesenta. La premisa original fue improvisar (no “ilustrar”) las películas de este período poco conocido del cine poético norteamericano.
Los integrantes del grupo son: Lee Ranaldo y Alan Licht (guitarra, dispositivos y efectos), Ulrich Krieger (saxofón y electrónica), y el más reciente, Tim Barnes (batería y percusiones). El grupo se ha presentado en festivales como el Victoriaville Music Festival de Canadá; el Three Rivers Film Festival de Pittsburgh; el Walker Art Center en Minneapolis; el Centre Georges Pompidou; el The Whitney Museum de Nueva York y han realizado varias giras por Europa.

El concierto comenzará con una selección de películas experimentales relacionadas con la obra de Brakhage curada por Eric Namour.
www.leeranaldo.net/toflight/toflight













The rest of the program for this festival is here:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?not...63990473648249

Text of Light
Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Alan Licht, Tim Barnes, Ulrich Krieger y Stan Brakhage (EU)

Jueves 17 de marzo, 19:30
Cineteca Nacional (sala 2)
Donativo : $ 250

Text of Light fue formado en 1999 con la idea de improvisar música para las películas de Stan Brakhage y otros miembros del cine norteamericano avant-garde de los cincuenta y sesenta. La premisa original fue improvisar (no “ilustrar”) las películas de este período poco conocido del cine poético norteamericano.
Los integrantes del grupo son: Lee Ranaldo y Alan Licht (guitarra, dispositivos y efectos), Ulrich Krieger (saxofón y electrónica), y el más reciente, Tim Barnes (batería y percusiones). El grupo se ha presentado en festivales como el Victoriaville Music Festival de Canadá; el Three Rivers Film Festival de Pittsburgh; el Walker Art Center en Minneapolis; el Centre Georges Pompidou; el The Whitney Museum de Nueva York y han realizado varias giras por Europa.

El concierto comenzará con una selección de películas experimentales relacionadas con la obra de Brakhage curada por Eric Namour.
www.leeranaldo.net/toflight/toflight













The rest of the program for this festival is here:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?not...63990473648249

is March 14 during SXSW?

Bump.


List of the films that will be projected at Sala 2 of La Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City this Thursday, March 17, before Text Of Light's performance (curated by Eric Namour, organizer of the festival):

• Straight and Narrow (1970) / Tony and Beverly Conrad / Dur. 10 min.
• Charlemagne 2: Piltzer (2002) / Pip Chodorov / Dur. 22 min.
• At The Academy - Night Train - Cycles (1979) / Guy Sherwin / Dur. 12 min.
• The Horseman, The Woman and The Moth (1968) / Text of light - Stan Brakhage / Dur. 19 min.
• I Take These Truths (1994) / Text of light - Stan Brakhage / Dur. 35 min.

More info here:
http://aural.elnicho.org/proyecciones/

I loved the show. Will try to post a description as accurate as i'm able to muster when time permits, hopefully soon.

Here are some pics stolen from Aural Festival's facebook page:

Hopefully some others pics will appear in some other places soon. There were raining flashes all over Lee. Against the nature of the show, some people in the audience were snapping shot after shot for most of the performance. Guess it hasn't ever crossed their minds that such ridiculous amount of flashes could be annoying for the musicians performing.

cool pictures. yeah the digital photo things is out of control, its not just annoying for the musicians but the audience. I like to take some shots but don't use the flash - my digital camera seems to send out some kind of red ray and even that I saw distract a player so I stopped. But then, I go to shows where the person behind me chomping on gum is a distraction.

Crappy scans of the program:

Same information, different source: