Sonic Worlds - Fire Museum Presents: A Page of Madness (Kinugasa Teinosuke, 1926) with Totally Automatic & Matt O’Hare

Thursday, December 14, 2023

8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Off-Campus Location/Virtual 2223 Fish / 2223 E. Dauphin Street, Philadelphia

12/14/2023 08:00 AM America/New_York Sonic Worlds - Fire Museum Presents: A Page of Madness (Kinugasa Teinosuke, 1926) with Totally Automatic & Matt O’Hare Off-Campus Location/Virtual

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Contact

Weissinger, James R

jweissin@haverford.edu

Type

Concert / Recital

Audience

Faculty and Staff
General Public
Students

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With its rapid, non-linear cuts and terrifying imagery, A Page of Madness is widely regarded as a kinetic masterwork of early 20th century Japanese cinema.

Sonic Worlds: Fire Museum Presents A Page of Madness with Totally Automatic & Matt O'Hare

Friday, December 8, 2023
8pm
2223 Fish (2223 E. Dauphin St., Philadelphia)

A Page of Madness (狂った一頁, Kurutta Ichipeiji) is a 1926 Japanese silent film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Lost for 45 years until it was rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse in 1971, the film is the product of an avant-garde group of artists in Japan known as the Shinkankakuha (or School of New Perceptions) who tried to overcome naturalistic representation.

With its rapid, non-linear cuts and terrifying imagery, A Page of Madness is widely regarded as a kinetic masterwork of early 20th century Japanese cinema. Accompanied by Totally Automatic (Anne Ishii, Eugene Lew, and Matthew Smith Lee), composer Matt O'Hare sonically leverages the beautiful and chaotic expressionism of Madness by utilizing visual analysis of the film to drive audible changes in a modular synthesizer, promising a raw and visceral take on a seminal horror classic. Learn more.

Organized by Visual Studies and English faculty Matt O'Hare and supported by the Tri-Co Philly Program; part of the Hurford Center's Sonic Worlds series.