EVAN MAZUNIK’S ZAHA PREMIERES “SILENT SCREAM: NOSFERATU” IN SUNNYSIDE ON 10/26/12
Evan Mazunik will premiere an original score to the silent film "Nosferatu" with his group ZAHA at Sunnyside Reformed Church on Friday, Oct 26, 2012 at 8pm (doors at 7:30pm). The show is free and open to the public, with a suggested donation of $15.
Sunnyside Reformed Church will host this year's Halloween show, dubbed "Silent Scream," a chilling evening of film and music. This concert will feature a screening of the silent film "Nosferatu" (1923) with live musical accompaniment by Evan Mazunik's ZAHA. This October marks the group's sixth-annual Halloween show, and this performance is open to the public (costumes are welcome). Musicians include Justin Wood (woodwinds), Sebastian Noelle (guitar), Ryan Kotler (bass), Eric John Eigner (drums), John O'Brien (drums), and Evan Mazunik (keyboards/direction)....
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EVAN MAZUNIK’S ZAHA PREMIERES “SILENT SCREAM: NOSFERATU” IN SUNNYSIDE ON 10/26/12
Evan Mazunik will premiere an original score to the silent film "Nosferatu" with his group ZAHA at Sunnyside Reformed Church on Friday, Oct 26, 2012 at 8pm (doors at 7:30pm). The show is free and open to the public, with a suggested donation of $15.
Sunnyside Reformed Church will host this year's Halloween show, dubbed "Silent Scream," a chilling evening of film and music. This concert will feature a screening of the silent film "Nosferatu" (1923) with live musical accompaniment by Evan Mazunik's ZAHA. This October marks the group's sixth-annual Halloween show, and this performance is open to the public (costumes are welcome). Musicians include Justin Wood (woodwinds), Sebastian Noelle (guitar), Ryan Kotler (bass), Eric John Eigner (drums), John O'Brien (drums), and Evan Mazunik (keyboards/direction).
For this show, Evan will direct ZAHA using Soundpainting, a sign language for live composition, as the group composes their program in realtime. As the Soundpainter, Mazunik signs a phrase using hand gestures, listens and watches the players, and, in turn, develops their responses by signing a new phrase, continuously creating the score in the moment.
"I'm thrilled to bring this ensemble of savvy improvisers back to Sunnyside for the second year in a row," said Evan Mazunik, director of ZAHA. "Sunnyside Reformed has been such a welcoming home for us, and it's a perfect setting for an evening of music and film."
For more information, visit http://zaha.blissstreetstudios.com or contact Neil Margetson at 718-426-5997.
ABOUT EVAN MAZUNIK
Evan Mazunik is a composer/performer raised on the prairies of Iowa and rooted in Queens, NY. Fluent in Soundpainting, a sign language for live composition, Mazunik is composer/director for ZAHA, his experimental Soundpainting ensemble. His compositions include commissions for jazz band, chorus, theater, dance, and film, and his work was featured in a documentary for the Finnish Broadcasting Company. Mazunik has performed with Anthony Braxton, Walter Thompson, Carla Bley, Robin Eubanks, Danielson, and Sufjan Stevens, and has played at creative music venues such as Roulette, The Stone, Barbes, and Galapagos.
ABOUT ZAHA
ZAHA is a chamber ensemble devoted to composing music in real time. Director/composer Evan Mazunik leads the group using Soundpainting, the universal sign language for live composition. Based in New York City since 2006, ZAHA has played in the New York International Fringe Festival, and Evan Mazunik has performed with ZAHA at such diverse venues as Brooklyn Lyceum, Douglass Street Collective, and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC. Other past performances have featured a live film score to The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a guerilla performance in Times Square, and an installation based on human bowling. Members: Justin Wood (tenor sax, flute),, Sebastian Noelle (guitar), Ryan Kotler (bass), Eric Eigner (drums), and John O'Brien (drums). For more information, visit their online press kit at http://gigmaven.com/zaha.
ABOUT SUNNYSIDE REFORMED CHURCH
Known as the "Little Church on the Corner," Sunnyside Reformed Church has offered spiritual guidance and community to the western Queens area for over 100 years. Founded in 1896, Sunnyside Reformed Church is a member of the Reformed Church of America and is host to a regular series of jazz, blues, and world music concerts. Past performers on this series have included David Amram and the Reverend Vince Anderson. For more information, please visit http://sunnysidenyc.rcachurches.org
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