Saturday, March 15, 2025, 8:00 pm, classic-editor
BRIAN DARR IN PERSON: OPUS (n)ONE + WARM SPELLS: MATING RITES +
Comes now our first Live A/V show of the season, a hybrid program that carries over the record-store theme from last Sat., but blows up the multi-media aspect into a delirious circus of audiovisual delights. Long-lost critic Brian Darr is back in his SF hometown for one week only, so now is thee time to experience his para-cinematic sound-and-image celebration of the unlikeliest record label of the late 20th Century..a remote Maine launching pad for obscure avant garde composers, best remembered for its wild psychedelic covers. The second half belongs to J. Lee‘s Warm Spells, a 6-person A/V ensemble using overhead projectors, rear-projection, shadow puppets, and live musical performance, to enact their Pan-Galactic Mating Rites. Opening are playful riffs from lo-fi intermedia, including glasses-less 3-D, jug-whistling, the Trololo Man, and Len Lye‘s kinetic sculpture. $12