Studio Arts Program Presents
A Bookmobile for Dreamers
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
A Bookmobile for Dreamers is a multimedia chamber opera for live theremin, electronic sound, and video projection, created by composer and thereminist Elizabeth Brown with video by Lothar Osterburg. Inspired by the joy of browsing, A Bookmobile for Dreamers celebrates the imagination as triggered by the printed word. As a bookmobile makes its rounds, we enter a series of books—and are carried away with the leaps, associations and meanderings of the imagination in all its unpredictability. Brown and Osterburg have been collaborating since 2003. Osterburg, who is a sculptor, photographer, printmaker and filmmaker, has created a dreamlike model world using real time video, stop motion animation and some special effects. Brown's theremin sings over an electronic soundscape which she built from transformed field recordings of everyday sounds, and she uses the theremin's spatial playing technique to interact with the virtual world of the video projection.For more information, call 212-627-0002, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://home.earthlink.net/~lotharosterburg/.
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema