a live movie soundtrack performance

all previously unreleased material

In December 1999 Steve Jansen was invited by Italian keyboardist,

composer and producer Claudio Chianura to join him and two

additional Italian musicians (Roberto Zorzi, guitar and Piero

Chianura, keyboard effects) for a semi-improvised live performance

to a special screening of the renowned Dziga Vertov film

‘Kinoapparatom’ (or 'Man with a Movie Camera') at the Palazzina

Liberty in Milan.

Vertov was one of the most unorthodox artists in the Soviet avant-

garde movement, both in his style, exhibited by his documentary

films, and his concept of cinema. Made in 1929 and inspired by

constructivism,Vertov wanted to create an international film

language. He thought that the perfection of the camera, the new eye,

was without limit and believed in the ability of the machine to

reshape the world. For Vertov, viewing a film was as much about the

camera lens and the projector as it was the moving pictures on the

screen. He wanted movie-going audiences to collaborate in his films

and be seduced by the future that machines promised.

With only very limited rehearsals and the minimal use of equipment, the four musicians communicate their craft

through the eye of Vertov, their instinctive reactions to the striking images guide their performance. What emerges is

an abstract and intense work where transient tones are dispersed by evolving moods. Dark substance carried on

mechanised rhythms, fragile and impending, a sense of future past.

steve jansen - samples, rhythm loops

roberto zorzi - electric guitar

piero chianura - synthesiser

1. awakening - (c.chianura / s.jansen)

2. operator - (c.chianura / s.jansen)

3. gates of moscow - (c.chianura / s.jansen)

4. life size - (c.chianura / s.jansen / r.zorzi / p.chianura)

5. elevator - (c.chianura / s.jansen / p.chianura)

6. at work - (c.chianura / s.jansen / r.zorzi / p.chianura)

7. playtime - (c.chianura / s.jansen / r.zorzi / p.chianura)

8. dusk - (c.chianura / s.jansen / r.zorzi)