Special Effect US Premier at MOMI

This fall I spent some time with Seabat composing much of the original music for Peter Burr's Special Effect project, a multi-media experimental animation extravaganza inspired by Tarkovsky's Stalker. The show has already debuted at several festivals in Australia, and will make it's U.S. premier January 18th at the Museum of the Moving Image.

 

"Video and performance artist Peter Burr presents a live television show from the future inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky's 1971 film Stalker and its central setting of "the zone": an off-limits place of hope and possibility rumored to make one's deepest desires come true. Special Effect features 20 30-second original works from underground animation label Cartune Xprez, original music from Lucky Dragons and Seabat, and live performances by Burr involving laser beams and a hacked Kinect camera.

Contributors include James Duesing, Amy Lockhart, Yoshi Sodeoka, Billy Grant, Michael Bell-Smith, Ola Vasiljeva, Jacob Ciocci, Andrew Benson, Jeff Kriksciun, Chad VanGaalen, Philippe Blanchard, E*Rock, Luke Painter, Brandon Blommaert, Stu Hughes, Devin Flynn, Michael Robinson, Sabrina Ratté, Ben Coonley, and Brenna Murphy. Written by Peter Burr, Maya Lubinsky, and PFFR. Costumes by Diana Joy. Set by Peter Burr and Elliot Montgomery. Computer programming by Mike Heavers."

This project was successfully funded using Kickstarter.