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Media for Film

La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc

Selected Video Clips

Date of Creation:
Film director Carl Theodore Dreyer, premiered in France and Denmark 1928
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano 2022

Performance Locations and dates:

Soundtrack Tel Aviv Film Festival

at TLV Cinematheque, Israel

November 17, 2022

La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc – Clip 1

Film director Carl Theodore Dreyer, released in Denmark and France in 1928
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in Tel Aviv Cinematheque, November 2022

Video Clip duration: 1:28min

Soundtrack composed edited and mastered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano. 

The film score includes multiple audio sources, including also parts of Acher-Modiano’s tracks from her album Humanity is an Ocean – Flute Soundtracks.

Album released on Centaur Records, October 2020

Flute and Noises recorded in October 2019- February 2020 at Engholm Church, Allerød, Denmark

Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – composition, flute and noises, 

Michael Norman – sound engineer

Viggo Mangor – mix and master

Album title: Humanity is an Ocean – Flute Soundtracks.

Genre: Classical and Electro-acoustic Contemporary

Music by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano, C. Debussy and J.S. Bach

Artist: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano

Record label: Centaur Records

Release on: October 2nd, 2020

Album Program: 19 tracks

Total Time: 65:56 min

METROPOLIS

Selected Video Clips

Date of Creation:
Film director Fritz Lang, premiered in Weimar Republic, 1927
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano 2014

Performance Locations and dates:
High Line 14th Street Passage, New York City, NY, US
On September 28, 2014
Home | The High Line

TLV Cinematheque, Israel
On April 14, 2017
סינמטק תל אביב – הבית של הקולנוע (cinema.co.il)

United Palace Cultural Arts
On March 25, 2018
United Palace – One of Manhattan’s Most Spectacular Theatres

Club/Dance and Babylon Dark Prophecy

Film director Fritz Lang, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1927
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in New York City, 2014

Video duration: 04:29 min

The soundtrack clip includes multiple audio sources, including also parts of Acher-Modiano’s tracks “Jozé Ritual” and “B’WAY2” from the album “KAT” & “MOON” in Manna-hata, released in 2014.

Soundtrack composed edited and mastered by Yael Acher “KAT” modiano. 

“Jozé Ritual” recorded with Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, multi-tracks flutes and electronics with Sound engineer Jan Farø at Lydlaboratoriet- Huset in 1996. 
(8) HUSET | Facebook

Mastered by Jean Paul. Released in 2014 on album “KAT” & “MOON” in Manna-hata

“B’WAY2” recorded with: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, Flute & EFX and Electronic tracks, leading. Daniel Muschinsky- Keyboards, Kristor Brødsgaard- Double Bass and El bass, DJ Lars B. Beats and EFX. Recorded at Sun Studio by Andreas Hvild, Copenhagen, DK, December 5th, 2005. Mixed by DJ Lars B. 

Sun Studio, Copenhagen
Sun Studio, Copenhagen Label | Releases | Discogs

Mastered by Jean Paul at G&J Audio
Mastering & Mixing, Grammy Winning Staff | G&J Audio (gandjaudio.com)
Released in 2014 on album “KAT” & “MOON” in Manna-hata. 

Album title: “’KAT’ & ‘MOON’ in Manna-hata” (2014)

Genre: Electro-acoustic Jazz.

All music by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano

Artists: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, scores, Flute &EFX and Electronic tracks, leading.

And Daniel Muschinsky- Keyboards, Kristor Brødsgaard- Double Bass and El bass, DJ Lars B. Beats and EFX, Wycliffe Gordon- Trombone and Rhodes Piano, Corcoran Holt- Double Bass, Randy Crafton- Middle Eastern, African and custom-made Percussion, Rashad Dobbins- MC/Poet, Ameen Saleem- El Bass, Jeremy ‘BEAN’ Clemons.

Record label: independent – MODIANOMUSIC

Release on: January 2014, in New York City and globally. (CDs and online platforms)

Album Program: 9 tracks by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.

Total Time: 60:01 min

The Eternal Gardens

Film director Fritz Lang, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1927
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in New York City, 2014

Video duration: 04:25 min
The soundtrack clip includes multiple audio sources, including also parts of Acher-Modiano’s track “’KAT’ & ‘MOON’ in Manna-hata,”

Soundtrack composed, edited and mastered by Yael Acher “KAT” modiano. Track recorded with Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, scores, Flute &EFX and Electronic tracks, Wycliffe Gordon- Trombone and Rhodes Piano, Corcoran Holt- Double Bass, Randy Crafton- Middle Eastern, African and custom-made Percussion. 

Track recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, September 25th, 2013
Tri-State Area’s Premier Recording Studio (kaleidoscopesound.com)

Mastered by Jean Paul at G&J Audio
Mastering & Mixing, Grammy Winning Staff | G&J Audio (gandjaudio.com)

Released in 2014 on album “KAT” & “MOON” in Manna-hata. 

Album title: “’KAT’ & ‘MOON’ in Manna-hata” (2014)

Genre: Electro-acoustic Jazz.

All music by Yael Acher “KAT” modiano

Artists: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, scores, Flute &EFX and Electronic tracks, leading.

And Daniel Muschinsky- Keyboards, Kristor Brødsgaard- Double Bass and El bass, DJ Lars B. Beats and EFX, Wycliffe Gordon- Trombone and Rhodes Piano, Corcoran Holt- Double Bass, Randy Crafton- Middle Eastern, African and custom-made Percussion, Rashad Dobbins- MC/Poet, Ameen Saleem- El Bass, Jeremy ‘BEAN’ Clemons.

Record label: independent – MODIANOMUSIC

Release on: January 2014, in New York City and globally. (CDs and online platforms)

Album Program: 9 tracks by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.

Total Time: 60:01 min

MoLog!

Film director Fritz Lang, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1927
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in New York City, 2014

Video duration: 04:25 min

The soundtrack clip includes multiple audio sources, including also parts of Acher-Modiano’s electro-acoustic track “Audio Images suite, III. Greek Noise,” from Modiano’s solo album La Belle Ombre.
Mix and mastering by George Vassilev in Paroise Catholiqe-Roman de Granges, Valaise, Switzerland, on June 8th, 9th, 2004. Released on Capstone Records, in June 2006.

“Extended playing techniques such as simultaneous singing and playing, air attacks with no tone, bending pitches, and glissandos are fundamental to the sound palette. The tone quality in these pieces is great well centered, and deployed with much variety.” 

By Gorman, CD Review- Guide to Records, American Record Guide. May/June issue, 2021, USA.

 

Album title: “La Belle Ombre” (2006)
Genre: Classical and Contemporary Electro-acoustic
Artist: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, flute and electronic tracks.
Record label: Capstone Records CPS-8768,
Release on: May 2006, in New York City and globally. (CDs and online platforms)
Album Program: Pieces by: Paul Hindemith and Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano
Total Time: 51:37 min
Recorded at Paroise Catholiqe-Roman de Granges, Valaise, Switzerland, on June 8th, 9th, 2004.
Sound engineering: mix and mastering by George Vassilev, GV Records.
Link GV RECORDS – Professional high fidelity audio recording

Production: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.

Sequence from “KAT” Modiano’s live soundtrack performance with Metropolis screening

Film director Fritz Lang, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1927
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in New York City, 2014

Duration: 06:33min

Location:
United Palace Cultural Arts
United Palace – One of Manhattan’s Most Spectacular Theatres

Date of Performance:
March 25, 2018

United Palace – One of Manhattan’s Most Spectacular Theater

““Hypnotic Visual and Audio Event”

“The combination of the film and Acher’s performance created a highly inspiring cinematic-musical experience…purely modernistic in character, blasting around the film, encompassing, supporting, and enhancing it.”

April 8, 2018

Review by Uri Klein, in Ha’aretz 

Haaretz.com

“’KAT’ & ‘MOON’ in Manna-hata” (2014)

Genre: Electro-acoustic Jazz.
All music by Yael Acher “KAT” modiano

Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, scores, Flute &EFX and Electronic tracks, leading.
And Daniel Muschinsky- Keyboards, Kristor Brødsgaard- Double Bass and El bass, DJ Lars B. Beats and EFX, Wycliffe Gordon- Trombone and Rhodes Piano, Corcoran Holt- Double Bass, Randy Crafton- Middle Eastern, African and custom-made Percussion, Rashad Dobbins- MC/Poet, Ameen Saleem- El Bass, Jeremy ‘BEAN’ Clemons.
Record label: independent – MODIANOMUSIC
Release on: January 2014, in New York City and globally. (CDs and online platforms)
Album Program: 9 tracks by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.
Total Time: 60:01 min
Recorded in different sessions and different line-ups at
Kaleidoscope Sound, NJ USA (2013)
Tri-State Area’s Premier Recording Studio (kaleidoscopesound.com)

Sound Spa Recording, NJ, USA (2006)
STEPHEN DeACUTIS – Home (soundspa.net)

Sun Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark (2005)
Sun Studio, Copenhagen Label | Releases | Discogs

Danish Radio Live concert recording, Copenhagen, Denmark (2004)
DR | Nyheder – Breaking – TV – Radio

Lydlaboratoriet- Huset, Copenhagen, Denmark (1996)
(8) HUSET | Facebook

All mastered by Gene Paul at G&J Audio, Union City, New Jersey November-December 2013.
G&J Audio (2013)
Mastering & Mixing, Grammy Winning Staff | G&J Audio (gandjaudio.com)

Production: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.

Review:
– “’KAT’”’s music created such an ecosystem in which to fully absorb the beauty of the film.” By Kristin Prevallet, poet., March 25th, 2018, New York City, USA.

Different From The Others (original title: Anders als die Anderen)

Selected video + soundtrack clips

Film director Richard Oswald, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany 1919 Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2012

Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn, NY, USA 
Spectacle Theater – 124 S 3rd St., Brooklyn, NY
Performance date: October 2012

Queersicht in Bern, Switzerland 
Home (queersicht.ch)
Performance date: November 11, 2012

Outfilm, in Hartford, CT, USA 
Out Film CT – Connecticut’s LGBTQ Film Festival – Presenting the best in queer film for over 30 years!
Performance date: December 9, 2012

TLV LGBT International Film Fest 
TLVFest | The Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival
Performance date: June 15, 2013

 Fresh Fruit Festival, New York City 
Fresh Fruit Festival – New York’s celebration of LGBTQ arts & culture
Performance date: July 20, 2013

 Jewish Heritage Museum in New York City 
The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (mjhnyc.org)
Performance date: September 15, 2015

Gallerie Kuchling in Berlin, Germany 
Galerie Kuchling Berlin – Galerie für frische Kunst (galerie-kuchling.de)
Performance date: September 14, 2017

Vineta Pavilion in Venice Biennale, Italy 
Vineta pavilion Nr. 1 (vineta-pavilion.org)
Performance date: October 7, 2017

Grand Theater in Copenhagen, Denmark 
Program – Grand Teatret
Performance date: November 25, 2020

Kurt & Paul Stroll in the Park and…

Film director Richard Oswald, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany 1919
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2012

Duration: 01:23min

* “BollywoodSofa” and “Adagio” – by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano. Commissioned by Ellis Wood Dance for the performance Falcon Project, at Tribeca PAC 2008, NYC.

Club Scene, Robbery, Last embrace

Film director Richard Oswald, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany 1919
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2012

Duration: 05:21 min

“She unquestionably conveyed the film narrative’s emotional expression.”
April 8, 2018

Review by Uri Klein, in Ha’aretz 
Haaretz.com

The sound on this clip includes original and not original audio samples from:

“Bells”– by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano. Released on Modiano CD in 2003, MODIANOMUSIC.

Commissioned by Tim Rushton and New Dance Danish Theater in 2002.Also used by the Choreographer and Butoh dancer Kim Itoh in Tokyo in 2005.

“Industrial Beat 3- Looky Here” and “Industrial Beat 2- Yellow” – by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano. Released on Redcar CD in 2001, MODIANOMUSIC.

“Word Up” – by Cameo in 1986, written by Larry Blackmon & Thomas Michael Jenkins.

“Car Wash” – by Rose Royce in 1976. Written and produced by Norman Whitfield.

Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 – by Gabriel Urbain Fauré. Composed between 1887- 1890.

String Quartet No. 5 – by Béla Bartók. Composed 1934

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(German: Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari)

Date of Creation:
Film director Robert Wien, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1920
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in Tel Aviv, Israel, 2018

Francis & Alan at the Market/ Cesare’s dark prophecy

Performance Locations and Dates:
Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Israel, April 4, 2018
סינמטק תל אביב – הבית של הקולנוע (cinema.co.il)

BIMM Music College- Dublin, March 4, 2020
https://www.bimm.ie/dublin/

Film director Robert Wien, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1920
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in Tel Aviv, Israel, 2018

Electro-acoustic, multilayered soundtrack composed by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.

Jane’s Survival / Cesare’s collapse

Film director Robert Wien, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1920.
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in Tel Aviv, Israel, 2018.

Video duration: 06:09 min

Modiano premiered the soundtrack live at Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Israel (April 3, 2018)
סינמטק תל אביב – הבית של הקולנוע (cinema.co.il)
BIMM Music College- Dublin (March 4, 2020)

https://www.bimm.ie/dublin/

“I have seen the film many times but viewing the film with Acher’s music was like seeing the film for the first time. During the screening my gaze moved constantly between the screen action and Acher’s image standing and playing at the edge of the stage, dressed in a masculine suite and hat, and my wandering gaze enhanced the unsettling feeling that Wien’s film inspires in its spectators.”

April 8, 2018

Review by Uri Klein, in Ha’aretz 

Haaretz.com

ASPHALT

Selected soundtrack and performance clips

Film director Joe May, premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1929
Soundtrack composed and premiered by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano on June 15, 2012, All Things Project, Manhattan, New York City, USA

ATP | All Things Project, New York City, NY, USA
(June 15, 2012)

Chicago International Movies and Music Festival (CIMMfest) – FilmFreeway
(April 20, 2013)

Gershwin Hotel, New York City, NY, USA 
(September 5, 2013)

Category:Gershwin Hotel – Wikimedia Commons

Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library and Museum – LANDMARK WEST, New York City, NY, USA

(November 14, 2013)

Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Israel
 סינמטק תל אביב – הבית של הקולנוע (cinema.co.il)

(November 2, 2018)

Modiano Live Soundtrack at Gershwin Hotel Performance Series

Film Director: Joe May. Premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1929.
Soundtrack created by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano, premiered in New York City, NY, USA, 2012.

Performance Location:
Gershwin Hotel, New York City, NY, USA
Category:Gershwin Hotel – Wikimedia Commons

Performance Date: September 5, 2013

“The combination of the film and Acher’s performance created a highly inspiring cinematic-musical experience…purely modernistic in character, blasting around the film, encompassing, supporting, and enhancing it…”

By Uri Klein, Ha’aretz, April 8th, 2018, Israel.

ASPHALT: INTRO

Film Director: Joe May. Premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1929
Soundtrack created by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano, premiered in New York City, NY, USA, 2012

Duration: 06:25min

“During the screening my gaze moved constantly between the screen action and Acher’s image standing and playing at the edge of the stage, dressed in a masculine suite and hat, and my wandering gaze enhanced the unsettling feeling that Wien’s film inspires in its spectators.”
By Uri Klein, Ha’aretz, April 8th, 2018, Israel.

Album title: “Redcar” (2001)

Genre: Electro-acoustic Jazz.

All music by Yael Acher “KAT” modiano

Artists: “KaT”-inDustrial: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, scores, flute and electronic -beats, leading, Peter Dahlgren- trombone, Nils Davidsen- Double Bass

Total Time: 55:06 min

Record label: MODIANO, MODIANO 0501 

Released on June 2001.

Recorded at Toccata studio, Copenhagen, Denmark on May 2nd and 3rd, 2001.

Sound engineering: mix and mastering by Jesper Johansen 

Production: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.

ASPHALT: The Fight Scene

Film Director: Joe May. Premiered in Weimar Republic, Germany, 1929
Soundtrack created by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano, premiered in New York City, NY, USA, 2012

Duration:  05:44 min

“[The] sound created a space that really felt like the inner life of consciousness. “ By Lynne Constantine, George Mason University, August 28th, 2013, MA, USA

LEONTINE ENFANT TERRIBLE

Selected Soundtrack Clip

REVOLTE & PRACTICAL JOKES

Film created in France in 1911 as an episode in the Léontine series, which was produced by Pathé-Frères from 1910-1912. The name of the actress who plays Léontine and the director of either of these films are not known.

(Romeo Bosetti is credited as director of some other episodes)

Soundtrack created by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano, in June 2021. Commissioned by Cinema’s First Nasty Women.

 For film’s copyrights protections, please do not share this media.

Cinema’s First Nasty Women:
Cinema’s First Nasty Women (Kino) – Blu/DVD set – NitrateVille.com

Kino Lorber:
Kino Lorber – Experience Cinema

Cinema’s First Nasty Women DVD/Bluray Project 

Cinema’s First Nasty Women (Kino) – Blu/DVD set – NitrateVille.com

Kino Lorber:

Kino Lorber – Experience Cinema

 

“AIR – Peng’s Flight”
Track composed, recorded, and produced by Yael Acher “KAT Modiano.
Recorded February-May 2021 at BOGEY Studio, Copenhagen V. Denmark
with:
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – production, composition, lead, flute & efx
Daniel Muschinsky – piano and keyboards
Kristor Brødsgaard – double bass and el- bass, sound engineer,
Ayi Solomon – percussion and voice,
Niclas Compagnol – drums

“The intensity of her composition and live performance destabilized the silence that characterizes silent movies. Her music also completed the film, that itself is about unsettling the perception of reality and confronted it.”

April 8, 2018

Review by Uri Klein, in Ha’aretz 

Haaretz.com

Album title: NOMAD Imagination – Roots of Love(Sneak peek pre-released track list)

Stream Yael Acher “Kat” Modiano | Listen to NOMAD Imagination – Roots of Love (Sneak peek- pre-release) playlist online for free on SoundCloud

Composed, recorded and produced by Yael Acher “KAT Modiano.

Recorded February-May 2021 at BOGEY Studio, Copenhagen V. Denmark

with:

Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – production, composition, lead, flute & efx

Daniel Muschinsky – piano and keyboards

Kristor Brødsgaard – double bass and el- bass, sound engineer,

Ayi Solomon – percussion and voice,

Niclas Compagnol – drums

The album will be released on Aliud Records on December 2022
https://aliudrecords.com

Cinema’s First Nasty Women release date: August 30, 2022

The film and soundtrack will be released as part of a collection on Cinema’s First Nasty Women, a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction, and suggestive gender play. The collection includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from 13 international film archives and libraries, and spotlighting slapstick comediennes and cross-dressing women of the silent screen.

LA PILE ELECTRIQUE DE LEONTINE

Selected Soundtrack Clip

CAPTURED, NOT CAPTURED

Video duration: 01:59 minutes

Film created in France in 1910 as an episode in the Léontine series, which was produced by Pathé-Frères from 1910-1912. The name of the actress who plays Léontine and the director of either of these films are not known.

(Romeo Bosetti is credited as director of some other episodes)

Soundtrack created by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano, in June 2021. Commissioned by Cinema’s First Nasty Women.

 For film’s copyrights protections, please do not share this media.

Cinema’s First Nasty Women:
Cinema’s First Nasty Women (Kino) – Blu/DVD set – NitrateVille.com

Kino Lorber:
Kino Lorber – Experience Cinema

“A deeply satisfying album which proves that it is true that jazz’s genuine strength is that it is a bastard art form, which keeps on finding new ‘holes in the hedge’ it can copulate with, and in every foreseeable future, it would be able to conceive piles of new non-degenerated and very greedy Bastards… Hallelujah!” 

By Anders Kirkegaard, Jazz Special, Issue #71 August/September 2003, Denmark.
Forsiden – JAZZ Special

Cinema’s First Nasty Women release date: August 30, 2022

The film and soundtrack will be released as part of a collection on Cinema’s First Nasty Women, a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction, and suggestive gender play. The collection includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from 13 international film archives and libraries, and spotlighting slapstick comediennes and cross-dressing women of the silent screen.

“Blue ‘KAT’ Moves”

Track composed, recorded, and produced by Yael Acher “KAT Modiano.

Recorded February-May 2021 at BOGEY Studio, Copenhagen V. Denmark

with:

Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – production, composition, lead, flute & efx

Daniel Muschinsky – piano and keyboards

Kristor Brødsgaard – double bass and el- bass, sound engineer,

Ayi Solomon – percussion and voice,

Niclas Compagnol – drums

Album title: NOMAD Imagination – Roots of Love 

(Sneak peek pre-released track list)

Stream Yael Acher “Kat” Modiano | Listen to NOMAD Imagination – Roots of Love (Sneak peek- pre-release) playlist online for free on SoundCloud

Composed, recorded and produced by Yael Acher “KAT Modiano.

Recorded February-May 2021 at BOGEY Studio, Copenhagen V. Denmark

with:

Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – production, composition, lead, flute & efx

Daniel Muschinsky – piano and keyboards

Kristor Brødsgaard – double bass and el- bass, sound engineer,

Ayi Solomon – percussion and voice,

Niclas Compagnol – drums

 The album will be released on Aliud Records on December 2022

 https://aliudrecords.com

MICHAEL

(Also known as Mikaël, Chained: The Story of the Third Sex, and Heart’s Desire)
Selected Video Clip

INTRO & FIRST SCENE

Video Duration: 05:44 minutes

Film Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and released in Berlin in 1924

Soundtrack composed and premiered live by Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano in 2022 in Copenhagen. Commissioned by Goethe Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.

– Performance Locations and dates:

“KAT” Modiano premiered the live electro-acoustic soundtrack in Denmark at

Øst for Paradis, Aarhus, on April 25, 2022.

https://www.paradisbio.dk

Grand Teatret, Copenhagen, on April 27, 2022.

https://grandteatret.dk

Among other original audio samples, this soundtrack clip includes mainly samples from the first movement of Distances and Sounds, Suite I-VII.

  1. “And I have it from a wave’s own lips that their number is without limit.”

Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: flute, electronic tracks, composition and production.
Michael Norman Sørensen: sound engineering, mixing, and mastering. Viggo Mangor: mastering
Recorded between September 5th 2019 to Fabruary 5th 2020 at Engholm Church, Allerød, Denmark.

– Collaborators:

Goethe Institute, Copenhagen

https://www.goethe.de/ins/dk/da/index.html?wt_sc=danmark

GRAND Theatre, Copenhagen

 https://grandteatret.dk

Øst for Paradis

https://www.paradisbio.dk

Album title: “Humanity is like an ocean”- Flute Soundscapes (2020)

Genre: Classical and Contemporary Electro-acoustic

Artist: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, flute and electronic tracks.

Record label: CENTAUR RECORDS Inc. CRC 3830

Centaur Records | Classical Music Label

Release on: October 2nd, 2020- globally. (CDs and online platforms)

Album program: Electro-acoustic and acoustic pieces by Yael Acher “KAT” Modinao, and pieces from the Classical repertoire by Johan Sebastian Bach and Claude Debussy.

Total Time: 65:56 min

Recorded at: Engholm Church, Allerød, Denmark, September 5th, 2019 -February 5th, 2020.

Sound engineers: mixed and mastered by Michael Norman.

(99+) Michael Norman Sørensen | LinkedIn

Mastering and artistic directions for J.S.Bach by Viggo Mangor.

Viggo Mangor Discography at CD Universe

Production: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.

“The emphasis here appears to be on evoking the spiritual realm more than the motions made there….’Flute Soundscapes’ offers the key to describing these pieces. Added percussion, electronic manipulation, and sound effects too abstract to describe contribute to the music. Extended playing techniques such as simultaneous singing and playing, air attacks with no tone, bending pitches, and glissandos are fundamental to the sound palette. The tone quality in these pieces is great well centered, and deployed with much variety.” By Gorman, CD Review- Guide to Records, American Record Guide. May/June issue, 2021, USA.

]]> About Time in Live Sound and Silent Motion Picture https://modianomusic.net/portfolio-items/about-time-in-live-sound-and-silent-motion-picture/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:38:28 +0000 https://yael.claudiajacques.org/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=591

Time in Live Sound & Silent Motion Picture

Live Electro/Acoustic Music for Silent Film Screening

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

“Hypnotic Visual and Audio Event…The intensity of Acher’s composition and live performance destabilized the silence …completed the film’s unsettling perception of reality and confronted it”- Uri Klein, Ha’aretz, April 2018

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 20th and 21st 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.

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