Ethan Marks “Silent Scream”
Friday October 31st & Saturday November 1st
doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm
$20 tickets at the door | $10 student tickets with ID
This performance is supported by BROILER, an Oracle Egg Residency series providing 3 to 7 day residencies to incubate ambitious new work in sound and performance. Learn more here.
Silent Scream is a simultaneous screening of four silent horror films from the 1920s, live-scored by an ensemble of soloists. The films are projected onto different hanging surfaces, dividing the space and housing the performers. Each musician is tasked with providing the score for one of the films without responding to any of the other musicians. The audience is invited to wander the space, mixing the audio and video for themselves, choosing or changing their vantage point as they see fit. Part performance, part installation, part haunted house, Silent Scream tests the flexibility of the relationship between sound, screen, and viewer by experimenting with how material can inform a musician’s improvisation and the different ways a sense of ensemble can be created (or destroyed).
Ethan Marks
Ethan Marks is a producer and experimental trumpet player based in Los Angeles. He currently directs High Desert Soundings, an annual experimental music festival held in Wonder Valley, outside of Joshua Tree National Park. He has also served as a guest producer for the Dogstar Orchestra Festival, a different annual experimental music festival held in LA. Between 2022–2024, he directed a DIY noise series, Sounds Poetic, in the heart of downtown LA. Marks has performed at the Getty, LACMA, MOCA, Disney Concert Hall, REDCAT, the Los Angeles Theatre, Diag0nal, Oracle Egg, Automata, Coaxial, Betalevel, Art Share L.A., Highways Performance Space, and Santa Monica Public Library, among others.
Jeonghyeon Joo
Jeonghyeon Joo is a haegeum performer/composer based in Los Angeles and Seoul. Her practice explores the physical, social, cultural, and political relationship between the performer and instrument, frequently collaborating with filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and performance artists. She has received the Emerging Artist Award from the National Academy of Arts of the Republic of Korea (2024) and the Presidential Award of Korea (2012), and her recent projects have been supported by Arts Council Korea, Sejong Center, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, and California Institute of the Arts, among others.
Michael Matsuno
Michael Kento Matsuno is a flutist whose work traverses the classical canon, contemporary music, improvisation, music psychology, and 20th-century history. He can be heard performing throughout Southern California and holds positions as lecturer at Chapman University and flute studio instructor at CalArts and Los Angeles Community Colleges.
Miller Wrenn
Miller Wrenn is a Los Angeles-based bassist and composer-improviser. His music explores alternative models of improvisation, creative orchestration, and unfamiliar timbral and melodic gestures in pursuit of expressing universal experiences through an idiosyncratic lens. He works primarily in the fields of new, creative, and improvised music and has been fortunate to do so with artists such as Vinny Golia, Eyvind Kang, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Stephanie Richards, Dan Rosenboom, Alex Cline, and the Santa Monica Symphony.
M A Harms
M A Harms is a Los Angeles based composer, instrument builder, and performer who explores the intersections between grief, gender, and sex through a combination of text and sound. Performance art is a major component of their work, as they believe that sound and visual aesthetics are equally significant within their art. M navigates literal stories and personal life events via sound practice, obscuring them to the point that they begin to bridge the gap between individual and “universal” experiences.