Dream on…
Oryan Peterson-Jones from BPBS Arts & Media
can’t remain still, he’s a busy man. He just got back from Cuba where
he was recording folkloric rhythms and music, now the dream machine he
calls Beast, Please Be Still has an ambitious project unfolding over the weekend. BPBS Fest 2017 features two days of music with just short of a dozen musical acts performing in four venues.
It all starts Friday afternoon with a
series of shows where you’re invited to “walk or bike from one event to
the next.” It begins at 4 p.m. with experimental folk at Northtown
Coffee by Oryan’s friends Vinnie Byrne and Eva L'izard from Oakland and Crowey from Portland. Then at Blondie’s (at 7 p.m.) hear rock classics from past years by The Gritty Kitties and Rotten Cheeto and the Twisted Lickas. Day one concludes in the Miniplex at Richard’s Goat (at 9 p.m.) with Oryan’s experimental ambient outfit Die Geister Beschwören and two darkwave bands Ghoulhand and Deep Dark Light.
He’ll try to get some sleep to rest up for the big show at The Sanctuary: The 7th annual production of (recurring) DREAMS.
Oryan explains, ”The first production was performed in 2010,” when
Datura Blues (another of his projects) got into live film scoring.
“Akira Kurosawa's 1990 film Dreams was adopted for its segmented
narrative, thematic imagery and topical relevance. (The story is divided
into eight short films, each recalling a dream Kurosawa had over the
course of his life.)
“We project Dreams onto a large
screen. Bands perform to the movie in real time but from behind the
screen. In this regard, the audience has no way of predicting what will
happen, where particular sounds emanate from, what instruments are being
used, who is ‘on stage,’ etc.
“This means the focus is almost entirely
upon the movie's plot and imagery. This is what makes it different from
similar events: The audience is not watching a band perform to film,
they are following a story, with new eyes and ears,” and essentially
joining in a waking dream state.
Drift into Dreams at 7 p.m. “sharp,” first with Opossum Sun Trail performing behind the segment "Sunshine Through The Rain,” then Five Minutes Alone ("The Peach Orchard”), Ghoulhand (“The Blizzard”), Die Geister Beschwören (“The Tunnel”), The Gritty Kitties (“Crows” with Martin Scorsese as Van Gogh), Kit Lamb (“Mount Fuji In Red”), Deep Dark Light (“The Weeping Demon”) ending with Crowey creating a soundtrack for "Village Of The Watermills.” Then it’s time to wake up, at least until it’s time to go home and dream good dreams. We can only hope.."
- BOB DORAN
www.madriverunion.com/the-hum-the-same-old-same-old/
