6pm EDT via ZOOM
$15/$5 members
limited to 15 people
TJG is proud to present musician & composer David Cieri for a Happy Hour Hang on Friday May 29.
For the past dozen years, David has written scores for some of the best-known documentarians currently working, including the filmmakers Ken Burns, Erik and Christopher Ewers, and Barak Goodman, amongst many others. For his Happy Hour Hang David is asking for short video submissions inspired by this time of lockdown that he will live score during the hang!
From David:
A call to submit a three minute (or so) video of a segment of your day - it could be anything from a seemingly mundane routine (paying bills! Hey Chekov showed us how infinitely interesting this can be) to the capture of a new discovery (kid learns to amble). Another option - tell us a story from your life or even a dream - I will pick a few and live score them during the hour so as to open up a discussion about music/images and anything else that may come up related to these close(r) encounters.
Please submit to cieri.david@gmail.com with a link to a downloadable thing to watch. Looking forward to sharing time with you then!
HAPPY HOUR HANGS WITH MUSICIANS - Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays - Grab a glass! Hear music, interact with one of our musician friends and enjoy some Jazz Gallery community. Reservations are required and available on a first-come, first-served basis at $15/$5 members per session (to offer the artist a small honorarium).
Happy Hour Hangs are limited to 15 people, as we'd like them to be something we can all participate in, and as it is not a concert limiting the number of people on screen means we can all chat and ‘hang’!
Additionally, most musicians do not have access to adequate internet bandwidth nor audio/microphone set up at their home, so the music often does not come through as well as anyone would desire; we do not want to create a situation where our artists are not presented at their best.
ABOUT DAVID CIERI
"David Cieri is a master composer, capable of the most subtle turns of phrase, and sensitive to every nuance of image and sound. His work ranges from the emotionally sublime, to the rhythmically hypnotic, from the joyous to the foreboding." —Ken Burns
"This is real music, not trapped by boxes, definitions and genres, but creating its own style. David Cieri delivers beautiful moods ... honest, imaginative, fearless." —John Zorn
DAVID CIERI, a musician and composer, makes music for film, concert, and album release. Cieri has worked with numerous celebrated filmmakers including Ken Burns, the Ewers Brothers, and Barak Goodman. He has recorded nine acclaimed albums under his own name, that last three of which were released by Ropeadope Records. He has collaborated on a major live documentary project with the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and has made two records with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. David wrote and performed the live scores for the first two seasons of The Paris Review podcasts. He teaches courses on Film Scoring and Music for Film at The City College of New York.