Composer and Bang on a Can co-founder David Lang presents five genre-defying new musical works in conjunction with films by visual artists Guy Maddin, William Wegman, Bill Morrison, Matt Mullican, and Doug Aitken. Compositions include the solo piano piece “Wed,” the densely orchestrated “Men,” “How to Pray,” and a somberly beautiful reworking of the Velvet Underground’s “Heroin” as a duet for voice and cello. All compositions are performed by Canada’s Contact ensemble.

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The Japanese noise-rock band Boredoms continue their tradition of free-ranging aural play with a performance whose centerpiece is a circle of nine drummers who for much of the time play in unison. Together they generate a densely-layered, body-shaking field of percussion that’s at once propulsive and meditative. With Atlanta’s “ambient punk” Deerhunter.

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SCREENING, SERIES
Unfiction
The Sounds of Science
Director: Jean Painlev
Music: Yo La Tengo
Thursday, September 17, 7:30 PM
$5

The eight mesmerizing short films of Jean Painlev in The Sounds of Science screening are at once a mix of surrealist-influenced shorts and serious science documentaries accompanied by a hypnotic and dreamy score by rock band Yo La Tengo.

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EMPAC 2009-2010 presentations, residencies and commissions are supported by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation;) and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support for artist commissions.