Cellist and composer Lori Goldston’s live film scores draw on years of wide ranging musical experiences and preoccupations, including work with Nirvana, David Byrne, Earth, Ellen Fullman, Mirah, Laura Veirs, the Wedding Present and Cat Power, and with traditional Japanese, Turkish, Brazilian, Chinese and experimental orchestras and chamber groups. Her sound is full, subtle and meticulously rendered, moving easily across a wild spectrum of of influences, including psychedelia, folk and early music.
She has performed her live scores at the Kennedy Center, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Portland’s TBA Festival, On the Boards, the Northwest Film Forum, New York’s River to River Festival, Bumbershoot, the Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, WNYC’s New Sounds Live, Olympia Film Festival, Experience Music Project, Contemporary Arts Center in Troy, NY, Minneapolis’s Cedar Cultural Center and Joe’s Pub in NYC.
“Lori Goldston’s affection for the film allowed her to become its full collaborator; her music constituted a kind of physical enactment of listening. She began in silence—absorbing the moment and the film—and then her sound emerged, shifting and responding to what she took in.”
Matthew Stadler, Artforum
“Lori Goldston’s accompaniment to the film offered a rare, light touch and restraint that breathes just under the frame…never competing for attention or complicating the vision of the filmmaker.”
James Bond, Full Aperture Systems, Inc., Chicago
Passing Fancy
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
Japan, 1933
100 minutes
Original score by Lori Goldston. Performed by Lori Goldston, cello; Phil Gelb, shakuhachi (bamboo flute); Greg Campbell, drum set, percussion and horn.
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Cellist and composer Lori Goldston was commissioned by New York public radio station WNYC’s New Sounds Live to compose a live score for Yasujiro Ozu’s silent film “Passing Fancy.” It was performed by Goldston on cello, Philip Gelb on shakuhachi and Greg Campbell on drum set and horn. It premiered at the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York in February 2010.
Ozu was a veteran director when he made his subtle, exquisite silent film “Passing Fancy” in 1933, and had already begun to develop his signature quirky narrative and technical style. Set in a ratty neighborhood in Tokyo, it is about a boy, his single father, and their network of friends and neighbors. It is considered by many critics to be one of his masterpieces.
Listen to an excerpt from New Sounds program #3045, “New Music for Silent Ozu Films 2010.”
View the Tech Rider for this performance.
Other scores available for performance:
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Directed by F.W.Murnau
USA, 1927
94 minutes
Original solo cello score to be premiered by cellist/composer Lori Goldston at the Northwest Film Forum Winter 2010.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
France, 1928
90 minutes; 16mm or DVD
Original score composed and performed by composer/cellist Lori Goldston.
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Ghosts Before Breakfast and The Seashell and the Clergyman
"Ghosts" directed by Hans Richter
Germany, 1928
"Seashell" directed by Germaine Dulac
France, 1928
55 minutes; 16 mm
Two surreal classics, plus a short subject early trick film, "Down in the Deep". Original score composed and performed by composer/cellist Lori Goldston.
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