Andrew Bird and Beirut Dark Sounds for the Guggenheim
. Dark Sounds is a three-part series of live music performances accompanying the exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, currently on view at the museum through September 6. Produced by Sam Brumbaugh, Special Events Consultant, and Bronwyn Keenan, Associate Director of Special Events, the series takes its thematic cue from the conceptual threads that weave through Haunted, aiming to evoke the exhibition's elements of melancholy, ghostliness, the uncanny, and our collective and individual obsession with accessing the past. The series title is borrowed from the writings of Montague Rhodes James (1862�1936), who is often described as the father of the modern ghost story. Dark Sounds kicks off with the richly modernized Balkan gypsy folk of Beirut on Thursday, July 15; followed by Andrew Bird & Ian Schneller's Sonic Arboretum, a site-specific performance involving violin, looped passages, and a landscape of horn speakers on Thursday, August 5; and then by the deeply melodic, electronic, and jazz-improvised sound of Cinematic Orchestra on Friday, September 3. The Dark Sounds series is made possible in part by Dr. Martens. Doors open at 8 pm and guests are encouraged to view the museum exhibitions Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance and the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim Julie Mehretu: Grey Area before the performances, which start at 10 pm in the museum's famed Frank Lloyd Wright�designed rotunda. July 15, 2010: Beirut September 3, 2010: CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum $25 members, $30 nonmembers Limited capacity. Advance online ticket sales only at guggenheim.org/darksounds. Beirut tickets went on sale June 24 for members and June 25 for nonmembers. Dark Sounds membership packages are available. Click here to read today's full Day in Pop report Preview and Purchase Andrew Bird CDs |
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