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Electro-Pythagoras (a portrait of Martin Bartlett)

Directed by Luke Fowler

Glyphs - Live Performance by Ernst Karel

45 min
PREVIEW SCREENING + Musical Performance
Live Musical Accompaniment
$12 Special Event Tickets

Electro-Pythagoras is a meditation on Martin Bartlett, a lesser-known composer who studied with both Terry Riley and Pandit Pran Nath. Using footage and papers from Bartlett’s archive—Bartlett died of AIDS in 1993—Luke Fowler’s film plays with sound and image to create a dreamlike portrait of Bartlett’s final years. This special preview screening will be followed by a live performance of sound artist Ernst Karel performing Glyphs, a piece based on tapes from Bartlett’s archive.

PROGRAM

  • Electro-Pythagoras (a portrait of Martin Bartlett)

    Directed by Luke Fowler.
    UK, 2016, 35mm, color, 45 min.
    Print source: LUX
  • Glyphs - Live Performance by Ernst Karel

    45 min.

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