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@Silk Street Music Hall | 23 MAY 2025
My new work, “Mothlight and the Dance of Afterimages” (2025), is an auditory reinterpretation of American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s short film “Mothlight” (1963).
Taking inspiration from Xenakis, avant-garde jazz, musical monads, and Ligeti, the composition focuses on textural sounds, complex structures, and dynamic flows of tension and energy. Each sound and instrument behaves organically, interacting, colliding, and continuously evolving without fixed structures. This organic approach includes acoustic instruments as well as electroacoustic elements such as theremin, electronic music, and digitally processed natural sounds. In this piece, sounds are living entities evolving through time, guiding listeners through cycles of emergence, growth, collision, and dissolution, awakening internal memories, subconscious perceptions of mortality, and a unique sense of self.
Original Film By Stan Brakhage, "Mothlight" (1963)
Music by Eleanor Lee
Music Performed by THE BAUHAUS BAND
Lydia Kenney (Sax 1), Jonty Gould (Sax 2), Joe Pollard (Sax 3), Emily Plumb (Sax 4), Ruth Harrison (Fl.), Emily Penn (Ob.), Heather Ryall (Cl.), Konstancja Snolorz (VIn. 1), Camille Said (VIn. 2), Banaby Medand (Ton. 1, Jane (Bass Ton, Raph Poret Ge., Acyona Mick (Phot), Louis Gasgoyne (E. Bass), Ed Adonis (Drs.), Charlie Hodge (Perc.), Eleanor Lee (Electronics, Theremin)
Conducted by John Harle
Recorded by the GSMD Audio & Visual Team