Films on musical inspiration Friday in HMB

Short: Half Moon Bay Concerto  (8 mins)

Lou Solitske’s beautiful photographs of Half Moon Bay are put to a musical score by jazz legend, George Roumanis.

Both have retired to an active life in Half Moon Bay. Come meet them, and see if their vision of our little town matches your own. 

Feature: Touch the Sound(113 mins)

"At the heart of every life form there is rhythm. Movement, flow, change, renewal and repetition are all based on rhythm." Evelyn Glennnie

Evelyn Glennnie lives in our universe in a way that almost no one else does.  She is a top classical percussionist. She is also profoundly deaf using her body as a "resounding chamber" through which she experiences her work.

"Touch the Sound" is a documentary by Thomas Riedelsheimer that follows Glennie on a musical journey around the world. We get to see her play the snare drum in New York’s Grand Central Station, a guitar case in the Cologne airport, pigeon coops on row house roof tops and the china of her favorite Japanese restaurant.

The movie really breaks out when we get to follow her and avant-garde musical legend Fred Frith as they improvise work for a new album while roaming through a vast, decaying, industrial warehouse. The space they are working is sunlit and visually stunning. The two musicians take inspiration from their surroundings to create a sound scape that is just as vast, sunlit and stunning.

For more information and a preview of these films see: www.hmbfilm.org

When:    Friday, April 20, 8 p.m.
Where:    Community Methodist Sanctuary
            777 Miramontes, Half Moon Bay 8 p.m
          Corner of Johnston & Miramontes.
Donation:  $6.00