I'll be pushing faders and turning knobs tomorrow night for this interesting event at the Silent Movie Theatre:

6/24 @ 8pm

The Magician (with live accompaniment)

Presented by Process Books

In celebration of the new Manly P. Hall biography "Master of the Mysteries" by Louis Sahagun, Process Books presents a special screening of Ingmar Bergman's 1959 supernatural classic The Magician with an original score composed by string arranger Ysanne Spevack and a live ensemble of improvising musicians. Bergman's film is a mystical contemplation of a magician and his vagrant troupe of medicine-show performers as they travel through the country in the mid-nineteenth century and are hounded by a skeptical public. Utilizing a combination of traditional orchestral string instruments, electric guitars, keyboards, accordion and electronic beats, the ensemble will be led by Ysanne on acoustic and electric violin, musical saw, midi-synthesized electronic textures and processing. The Magician marks the second time Ysanne has scored a film and performed it live, the first being Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle Of Algiers. "Master of the Mysteries" author Louis Sahagun will be present before and after the show to meet guests and sign books.

Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1958, 35mm, 97 min.

... also coming up: Catalog follows up the LA PRIDE show with a set at Bats Over Broadway on July 4 ...

... and then it will be back to work on the next moodorgan release and putting together a tour ...