So let it be written, so let it be done...

The schedule for the 2012 BAM Next Wave Festival was just announced yesterday and this year the Festival will include Numinous! I have been commissioned by the Next Wave Festival to compose an original score to the newly restored silent film, The Loves of Pharaoh by director Ernst Lubitsch. Numinous will perform the score live with the film at the new Steinberg Screen at BAM's Harvey Theater. We are deeply honored to be apart of the one of the preeminent festivals in the country, especially in this its 30th year. This has been in the works for a while now so I'm happy to (finally!) share the news.

Here's the info:

October 18, 19, 20, 2012

7:30 pm

The Harvey Theater

651 Fulton Street

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Tickets: $25, $35

Subway: 2, 3, Q, B, to Atlantic

C to Lafayette

N to Pacific Street

Film runs about 100 minutes, with no intermission
Tickets are available here.

There will be an Artist Talk on Friday October 19 after the showing, featuring myself and Thomas Bakels of Alpha-Omega Digital GmbH, who did a wonderful job with the restoration (they also did the digital work on the 2001 and 2010 restorations of Fritz Lang's Metropolis).  

Released in 1922, this film was Lubitsch's last silent film in Germany before coming to Hollywood; in fact, this film was a calling card to Hollywood to show he could direct spectacle and "a cast of thousands" as well as D.W. Griffith in his influential The Birth of a Nation (1915). Like that film, as well as later epic films such as Fred Niblo's Ben-Hur (1925) or Cecille B. Demille's The Ten Commandments (1923), The Loves of Pharaoh is grand in scope and ambition and shows a master director's skill even though it was a few years away from the famous musicals and comedies that cemented him and his "Lubitsch touch" in the pantheon of great Hollywood "Golden Age" directors from the 1930s and 1940s.

(photo credits: top photo, scene from The Loves of Pharaoh from Alpha-Omega; bottom photo, German poster from IMDb)

The Substance of Things Unseen

Here is the video taken by Yuko Takebe from the Pulse performance with TAKE Dance, FIVE POINTS. The dance for my new composition Unlimited was titled The Substance of Things Unseen and was choreographed wonderfully by Kile Hotchkiss. You can also check out all the other dances on the Pulse blog.


Unlimited, in an expanded instrumentation and version, is a movement in a larger composition which will be on our next Numinous recording. We plan to head to the studios sometime in 2013.

The Substance of Things Unseen

In the year 2012 ANA is Red Mamba

While Black Mamba was the most celebrated and lethal member of DeVAS (Deadly Viper Assassination Squad), there was actually one "forgotten" member who was more funky and kickasstastic: Red Mamba. Sometimes know as Ana Milosavljevic, Red Mamba debuts May 18th, 2012 at the Tribeca New Music Festival during an event entitled, The Red Viper Project. While usually operating under stealth conditions, some clandestine video footage of Red Mamba in action has been uncovered. Be warned, after viewing you might feel the urge to seek out Red Mamba on May 18th at The Cell Theater 338 West 23rd Street (btw. 8th & 9th Ave.) 8 pm to witness her kickasstery for yourself.

A Glimpse of an Eternity

"Beauty is unbearable, driving us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."-Albert Camus

Cagematch: Cage Does Cage

On May 18th, speak softly and carry a big stick

The Tribeca New Music Festival line-up was announced recently and while there are many wonderful performances you should check out, there is one that is of special significance to the humble host: violinist Ana Milosavljevic's The Red Viper project on May 18th, 2012 at The Cell Theatre (338 W. 28th Street (between 8th & 9th Ave.) in NYC).

Among a number of works Ana will be performing on her viper, she will be premiering a work she commissioned from me called Red Mamba. While I will have a post about my piece as we get closer to the premiere, let's just say it has something to do with the movie Kill Bill...

Tickets go on sale March 20th.

Coming soon...

Stay tuned for some exciting Numinous news...