Access Contemporary Music presents:
About the Show
The Sound of Silent Film Festival features newly commissioned scores performed live to modern silent films. This year’s program features films by Martin Scorsese, Guy Maddin, Jos Stelling, Martin Pickles and others.
Scorsese’s The Big Shave is a terrifying study in the damage that senseless adherence to ideology can cause. Maddin’s The Heart of the World is a six minute tour-de-force inspired by Soviet propaganda films of the 1930’s. The Waiting Room is hilarious and sexy and Martin Pickle’s G.M. is an homage to film pioneer Georges Melieres.
These films and more will be screened with new scores performed live!
About the Artists
Seth Boustead
Composer, Host of Relevant Tones and founder and Executive Director of Access Contemporary Music.
Seth Boustead is a composer, radio host, arts manager and writer, concert producer, in-demand speaker and visionary with the goal of revolutionizing how and where classical music is performed and how it is perceived by the general public. As a composer he has forged a unique and highly personal identity through pieces that are regularly performed and heard on radio broadcasts around the world. Seth is the founder and Executive Director of Access Contemporary Music and he is the host of Relevant Tones, the world’s only internationally syndicated contemporary music radio program.
Chris Grymes
Clarinetist, founder and President Open G Records.
An eclectic and versatile performer, clarinetist Chris Grymes’ playing was recently praised by The New York Times for his “acuity” and The Baltimore Sun for his “admirable technical and expressive strengths”. Equally at home in traditional and modern classical music, Chris is a strong proponent of exposing the process of the creation of art, commissioning and premiering many new works ranging from pieces for solo clarinet to concertos with orchestra, most recently giving the world premiere of Jeremy Gill’s “Notturno Concertante” with the Harrisburg Symphony. Always striving to “pull back the curtain”, Chris also writes about music and life, does podcast interviews of musicians and artists, and even livestreams his daily practice.
Access Contemporary Music
Access Contemporary Music began in 2004 when composer, radio host and new music advocate Seth Boustead had the idea to assemble musicians every week to read through, record and post music by living composers. From that project, ‘Weekly Readings’, came collaborations and commissions with ensembles and composers around the world, our Sound of Silent Film Festival, the ACM School of Music, serving 300 students in four locations, and collaborations with Open House projects in four cities. Today, ACM operates on an annual budget of a half million dollars and employs twenty-five teachers, staff, and musicians in Chicago, New York and Barcelona.
