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Title: Fwd: The Apollo Project // New York Guitar Festival
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Free event Friday the 6th in Lower Manhattan...!
Apollo Projections and Manipulations: filmmaker
Craig Teper reveals a lifelong interest in Brian Eno and space on
the eve of the New York Guitar Festival's Apollo
Project
I've
been listening to Brain Eno's work long enough to have repurchased it
going on four times now, from vinyl to iTunes, and to have consumed
Eno's writings, methods and ideas long enough for them to be
foundational in my own work. Though old enough to have heard those
original recordings at 33 1/3 rpm upon release, I was born after the
first moon landings. The massiveness of that achievement was a forgone
conclusion in my lifetime, rather than a televised event experienced
life as the world shrunk to a smaller size inside that box. NASA's
Apollo program had the effect of bringing the world together and
reducing the relative size of our cosmic neighborhood. More than a
decade later, for me at least, Eno's Apollo album managed to expand
the scope of music, the connection between art and science, and the
possibility of _expression_ in the face of rapid technological
change.
The
exploration of space has always had a strong pull for me. Chalk it up
to a childhood of repeat veiwings of Star Wars, committed to memory
with an almost religious fervor, endless games of Space Invaders or
early morning live shuttle launches on television, often delayed and
picked up again on the black and white TV at school. Somehow in the
ubiquitous retelling of the Apollo myth the mystery and wonder had
been bleed dry. Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins' Saturn V rocket hurdled
toward the moon over and over again each day in MTV's original
broadcast identity package. Books, interviews, documentaries and news
reports of the time seemed fixated on scientific and engineering
prowess, rather than the strangeness and majesty of leaving the
confines of home and standing on another world. On Apollo Soundtracks
and Landscapes Brian Eno, Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois' noises and
compositions cut through the cold war nationalism and number crunching
of the space race and showed us the darkness and mystery that was
always there if you wanted to see it.
For
the past several years I have been working on my own version of that
cause, pursuing a film on the life of Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Edgar
Mitchell. Of the twelve military pilots who stepped foot on that land
beyond earth, Mitchell alone embodies the wonder, possibility and
humanity of that singular moment. His experiences in space, withMan
their potential to unlock human consciousness, stand apart from
official NASA doctrine as starkly as Eno's music does from the drab
news broadcasts of Apollo. For this New York Guitar Festival
performance, I have assembled a few short peeks at this film, Man In
The Right Seat, as a glimpse into the life and mind of Edgar Mitchell
and the hidden dimensions of Apollo. To compliment this live remaining
of a landmark record, I have also processed and manipulated some of
the footage that serves as our official record of the moon missions,
in an effort to expand the dimension and mystery of the images as Eno
had done musically almost 30 years ago.
- Craig Teper
EVENT DETAILS:
"The Apollo Project," a
celebration and live re-imagining of "
Apollo: Atmospheres &
Soundtracks," Brian Eno's landmark 1983 musical tribute
to the NASA moon landings. This will be a rare live performance of
this masterpiece featuring the Brooklyn ambient ensemble
Itsnotyouitsme, acclaimed New York guitar master Larry Campbell, Jeff
Parker from Tortoise, Mike Gordon from Phish, Noveller, David Torn and
other special guests. This concert is a FREE concert at
the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, in
lower Manhattan across the street from
the World Trade Center site, on Friday,
January 6, at 8pm. More info about the venue: (212)
417-7000
www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com
newyorkguitarfestival.org
New York Guitar
Festival
57 Main Avenue
Unit 3
Ocean Grove, New Jersey
07756
USA
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