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Sunday and Monday
and Tuesday, October 8, 9, and 10
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7pm - Midnight
reservations
are recommended
The 4-screen installation that started it all.
Before we were the 1 year-old toddlers that we are now, we were
mere zygotes back in May of 2003. That was when for every weekend
for the entire month of May, we showed our premiere 4-screen installation
by Montgomery Knott. It was called Islands In The Stream
(40 minutes), named after both the BeeGee's song as well as the
Hemmingway novel.
{And, no. We have not reverted to that old Menu of just for dishes
for $4. The above photo is the ad we placed in Index Magazine.}
The magic number was definitely "4". There were four
screens, four "islands", all drinks and food were four
dollars, and your admission too, four dollars. Each screen was
its own island: New York, Nantucket, Cortes Island, B.C., and
a Jet Blue flight to Oakland. We recorded four separate soundtracks
with four different quartets. And, all the quartets were mixed
in 5.1 surround sound. Madness, right? Right!
For these screenings The Quartets
will be shown in the following order:
7pm Nicolas Vernhes, James Powers,
David Brandt and Patrick Holmes
8pm Charles Waters, Shannon Fields, Randy Peterson,
and Jeremy Wilms
9pm Stuart Bogie, Colin Stetson, Andrew Barker,
and Robert McNeill
10pm Ryan Sawyer, Mat Maneri, Matt Heyner, and
Montgomery Knott
The footage from this piece has been ageing quite well. Not only
do we witness the Fiery Furnaces in their infancy and FF's Eleanor
Friedberger running around the dunes of Nantucket, but we also
see the director bititng the head off of Colin Powell as he delivers
his now infamous speech to the United Nations proving the existence
of WMD's.
We hope you enjoy the show. It's a bit like a sonogram.
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