FutureEverything in association with Hairbrain present: Legendary Komische musician Dieter Moebius’ live, improvised score for Fritz Lang’s silent sci-fi masterpiece in the heart of Salford. He is supported by Polinski who makes his solo A/V show debut.
Dieter Moebius (cited by some as ‘The godfather of Krautrock’) will perform a live score to Fritz Lang’s 1927 German Expressionist film Metropolis at Salford’s St Philip’s Church on Thurs 17 May as part of FutureEverything’s 2012 festival.
Produced in Weimar-era Germany, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia, it was the most expensive silent film ever made and defined the science fiction genre in cinema. Dieter Moebius creates an improvised live score to this recently restored version of Metropolis, screened in the atmospheric surroundings of St Philip’s Church, an elegant grade II listed building, designed by Sir Robert Smirke in 1822.
A pioneer of experimental electronic music, Moebius is a founding member of the Cluster and Harmonia. He is also a former collaborator of Brian Eno. Born in Switzerland in 1944, he was a student of the artist Joseph Beuys and played his first gig above a Berlin shopping centre in 1969. Influenced by avant-garde composers such as Edgar Varese, Harmonia recorded their Klopfzeichen album with a church organist. They went on to become one of the most influential bands in early electronic music and were contemporaries of Neu!, Can and Kraftwerk.
This generation of German musical experimentalists created a new form of music made with machines, in response to the modern experience. Futurism and Stockhausen were common influences, but for Kraftwerk and Cluster Metropolis was a sacred text. They commented that the vision of the future realised in that film was something that had ‘greater influence on their music aesthetically than music itself’.
The choice of Dieter Moebius to score Metropolis has been carefully considered. Metropolis has had an enormous influence on cinema, however, this new Dieter Moebius score recognises the enormous debt that Fritz Lang’s vision had on the work of these pioneering German electronic artists, who changed the course of twentieth century music.
Polinski
After releasing Labyrinths (his critically-acclaimed debut album) last year and following live shows across the UK, Europe, Russia and Japan, Paul Wolinski aka Polinski returns to his home town of Manchester for his debut A/V show.
The visuals have been designed in collaboration with New York-based designer Caspar Newbolt of Version Industries, who has worked with Daft Punk as well as Paul’s main band, 65daysofstatic, who performed their live Silent Running score as part of FutureEverything in 2011. The visuals for Polinski’s show portray the stories conceived by Paul and Caspar on the cover of Labyrinths and in the music video of the subsequent single Stitches – an 8bit sci-fi world of robots, portals, pianos and private detectives. Expect pianos, soaring melodies, noise and a lot of glitchiness in the glorious surroundings of St Philip’s Church.
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