Jesse Gilbert exploring transdisciplinary arts and culture
Timur and the Dime Museum’s Collapse at RedCat
Jesse will create live visuals for the world premiere of Timur and the Dime Museum’s multimedia requiem, Collapse, at RedCat in Los Angeles, March 27-29, 2014.
Post-Punk Operatic Band Timur and The Dime Museum, Composer Daniel Corral, Video Artist Jesse Gilbert and Fashion Designer Victor Wilde Expand the Requiem Form into a New Multimedia Show
Concert details:
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (RedCat)
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
March 27 – 29, 2014 at 8:30pm
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From the press release:
REDCAT Theater, downtown center for contemporary arts, presents the world premiere of Timur and the Dime Museum’s COLLAPSE, a post-ecological requiem from March 27–29, 2014 at 8:30 PM. Composed by Daniel Corral and produced by Beth Morrison Projects, COLLAPSE is a vividly sardonic show with interactive visuals and satiric songs about the environmental catastrophes caused by humans.
Envisioned as a theatrical requiem, different stories are refracted through the hauntingly eclectic sound of the four-member band through accordion/keys, bass, guitar and drums. The vibrant voice of the Kazakh-American tenor TIMUR, playing the role of Moloch, a God of human sacrifice, brings urgent dramatic figuration to laments of environmental degradation past, present and future. Composer Corral’s approach to COLLAPSE focuses on reimagining the traditional requiem form into a band-driven song cycle for the 21st century.
Live-mixed projections by the award-winning video artist Jesse Gilbert (World Technology Network fellow), and costumes of the LA fashion designer Victor Wilde of the Bohemian Society (Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2014), will further create a raucous portrait of the human-made impact on the planet.
Following the world-premiere at REDCAT, Collapse will travel to Miami Light Project and Operadagen Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands.