THURSDAY, APRIL 10,2003
MUSIC
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5
Filmmakers, bands collaborate on project
By Neil Mulka
nmulka@kansan.com
Jayplay staff writer
Film, music and art will Kallide Monday at the Granada.
Combining the word collide with "kallos," the Greek word for beauty and the root for kaleidoscope, the Kallide Project will feature films by local filmmakers set to live performances of Lawrence bands Kelpie, Getaway Driver and E.V.A.C
According to producer/director Matt Blume, the made-up word describes the kaleidoscopic event perfectly.
"It's constant interplay," said Blume, Lawrence resident. "The films are playing into the band, and the bands are playing into each other." "Art is not just to
This event is also an attempt to break away from the traditional way various styles of art are digested.
"Art is not just to be appreciated in galleries and museums," Blumesaid., "This event affords art to be fully experienced in a nonconventional space where the audience is part of the experience."
"Art is not just to be appreciated in galleries and museums. This event affords art to be fully experienced in a nonconventional space where the audience is part of the experience."
Matt Blume
Kallide Project
producer/director
The performance is divided into two acts with the bands performing three 15 minute scenes during each act. Except for the bands changing with each scene, the music is continuous. During each of the four-minute transitions of the scenes, two of the three bands will play together.
"We only play together during the transitions," said John Momberg, drummer for Kelpie. "We play our own music, our own parts."
Performing live music while screening prerecorded films can present it's own
KALLIDE, A DIALOGUE
BETWEEN MUSIC AND VIDEO
Starts at 10 p.m. Monday at the Granada with a running time of two hours and 15 minutes
Featuring music by E.V.A.C., Getaway Driver and Kelpie.
Featuring projections by Tyler Alfrey, Matt Blume, Ryan Glendening, Kyle Hamrick, Jeff Ruggles and Nick Yates
problems with music/visual syncopation.
"Everything originally was going to be perfect," said Momberg, Lawrence resident. "Minute to minute, second to second but it was near impossible to do so."
The show, which has no official theme, will run for two hours and 15 minutes. Blume hopes that the time element of the performance will add to the audience's experience.
"I want them to see a merging of different specialties in a very temporal setting," Blume said. "At a regular live music performance there might be an encore. With this, there will only be two hours and 15 minutes."
The idea for the Kallide Project was conceived last year by Blume.
After finding interested filmmakers, artists and musicians the group started having regular meetings in January to discuss the project.
While the concept for music to be performed with video is not new, according to Blume, it has not been done recently in Lawrence.
In addition to the film and music, local artists Todd Hippensteel, Michael Klodginski and Erik Sultzer will create oversized cartoon illustrations around the walls of Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, to add to the atmosphere of the event.
"The artwork we're doing is for the peripheral viewing of the audience," said Michael Klodginski, St. Louis, Mo., senior. "It helps add to the idea of all the different mediums colliding together."
— Edited by Brandon Gay
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