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.