Monday, February 9, 2009

PNEUMUS


Pneumus is the name of a performance project formed in Guadalajara, México.
A group of actors, musicians, and other creative minds came together to form a project that mimics silent cinema from the 20s while performing live music that incorporates the most creative sound objects, including a rubber squeaky spider, pots and pans, whistles, cowbells, and random materials for construction work are all used in unexpected ways.
While the band is playing, one of the performers is showing a set of hand-drawn white on black images that tell a story of a character going through different settings, that include an underwater scene, a train, Venice in the 1920s, and others. While the images are being shown, the music connects to the story, and suddenly the musicians are characters in the story, and so is the audience, as the performers start to interact with them.
I find this to be a most engaging, creative and wonderful performance, like nothing I had ever seen before.
check it out.
www.pneumus.com

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