No Age performing a live score to Jean-Jacques Annaud’s The Bear at Cinefamily, Sunday night, here in Los Angeles. Thanks to Michael at videothing.com.
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[...] The cool thing about seeing bands provide live scores to movies is that you’re essentially privy to their basement stoner jam, complete with visuals. No matter the film, whether it’s 8 1/2 or Weekend at Bernie’s, the band will inevitably tap into their inner John Cage vs. Charlie Chaplins, making some ambient dramatic noise waves with minor comedic embellishments, and unless you are sober, you will think the thing would be way better amped with a small, legal amount of medicinal “jazz sweaters.” Last weekend No Age scored the classic nature film The Bear in Los Angeles, and as this video (courtesy Videothing) proves, their cool improv swells were not exempt from the awesome pull of the tension-building wall-of-guitar-noise or dramatic cymbal clangs, so dramatically paired with this gigantor grizzly bear (no hova) eating berries from a tree and running away from a dude with an unfortunate hat. (via Aquarium Drunkard) [...]
1 | Video: No Age Live-Scores a Dramatic Bear Chase « The FADER September 1st, 2009 at 10:43 amWish I could have been there, looks awesome. I did a re-edit of the same movie for a 60-second video project this past winter: http://vimeo.com/3063966
2 | shaun September 26th, 2009 at 2:03 pm[...] By all accounts the scoring of The Bear was very successful – you’re going to be doing it in New York. What do you feel you learned from [...]
3 | Aquarium Drunkard: Music Blog » No Age :: The AD Interview October 6th, 2009 at 8:31 am