Art Event #1

On Friday night i went to the Autumn Cafe with my friend Eliza. We saw two bands, The Glob Family, and Newspaper Joe. It was The Glob Family's first performance, and the music was very experimental, while Newspaper Joe had actually performed there before and i enjoyed their music thoroughly. I was really interested in the digital media aspect of the show, however, and i was not let down. All throughout the show there was 16mm film being projected up on the wall behind the band. All totally random things, Japanese woman, frogs, cartoons, boy scouts from the older days, etc. There was also a projector facing the outside of the Cafe and projecting up onto the marble wall of the bank across the street, a kind of advertisement for the show. I thought that was very neat. I spoke with some of the people running the reels and they said the reels of film were from BOCES, and that the show was actually created based on the finding of this film. Most of the show was dint using the old projectors, however i think at one point there was some newer digital media going on, as the woman had said the band member converted one of the reels to a CD. One of the things i found fascinating was the impact of the video without sound. At one point the video was an educational video, what looked like something that would be aired on PBS. The theme of this particular video was color, and they showed how to use a prism to break white light and then how to use primary colors to make the secondary colors and so on. Without the narration, however, the whole concept seemed to change, and instead all you hear is the band playing. I thought that was very interesting, and in my head sometimes i could hear a "narration" of my own. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the Autumn Cafe, and i feel as if i learned a little more about digital media and media in general. I hope to put up some photos and maybe some video soon, as i had my camera with me and i did take some footage.