Soundtrack Composed and performed by Yael Acher aka “KAT” MODIANO: with Flute, Effects, and Electronics

Contact and Booking:
Yael Acher aka “KAT” Modiano
Yael.acher@gmail.com
Cell: +1-917 622 6072 (New York City)

Time in Live Sound is a “real-time” response to Silent Motion Picture, a time -based artifact of Weimar era and early silent cinema (1900s-1920s).

As an electro/acoustic flutist / composer, Modiano transforms the tradition of live music accompaniment of silent films to a contemporary representation. Merging the two eras and art mediums, her music enhances the films’ emotional intensity and symbolic motifs. Expressionism’s inherently non-conforming and soul searching is reflected in its visual and narrative aspects, displayed through expressive lurking, seemingly slow-motion yet intensely paced camera portrays the actors in elaborately haunting scenes.

Modiano’s contemporary live film score performance and attire enhance and accompanies screenings of Weimar era Expressionist and other silent cinema masterpieces that communicate an inner and outer chaotic state of mind/being through symbolism, stylized Art Deco scene settings, artistic costumes, modern fashion, fantasy, and social codes.

Modiano’s audio vocabulary exposes a versatile palate of sounds, stemming from universal eclecticism. Among elements typical to the Western classical music of 20^th and 21^st Centuries, Jazz, exotica, and other popular music, the soundtracks encompass also raw pulsating Industrial noise beats, and elements from ritualistic and spiritual music of indigenous cultures: Australian Aborigines, Native Americans, monastic spiritual Tibetan Buddhist chants, and Zen.

Time in Live Sound has been performed by Modiano at film festivals, cinemas and screening venues in NYC, Berlin, Bern, Venice, Tel Aviv, and more. Numerous grants and awards have supported the project, including Goethe institute in Tel Aviv and in Copenhagen, Danish Musician Union, NY Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grant, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Fresh Fruit Festival, from New York City.

Modiano’s Film scores publications:

– “La Pile Électrique de Léontine” (1910) and “Léontine Enfant Terrible” (1911), French silent films with Acher-Modiano’s soundtracks. Released on Kino Lorber on “Cinema’s First Nasty Women”, a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray. 2023.

– “Desmet Collection- The Colorful World of Cinema”:  Compilation of European silent films (1910s) with Modiano’s film scores –published online on Eye Film Player – Eye Film Amsterdam, 2024.

– Film scores for 5 Danish Silent Films from Danish Film Institute Archive – to be published on DFI online platform STUM.dk 2024/2025.