Curated ! Introduced by Mark McElhatten "If I can see it, do I have to hear it too?"-John Cage This program is concerned with a range of ideas that relate to music and experience in recent films and videos, particularly in their approach to musical composition and "settings." Notions of contagious melody, melodrama, illicit frequencies, "incontinent nostalgia" and "musical epilepsy" (after Oliver Sacks), "collective bewitchment" (after Pierre Boulez), cultural trespass, sound concrete, visual music, furniture music, and "radio eye" (after Dziga Vertov) all hover nearby as contrasting considerations, as we experience sound and image conspiring to make meaning through their strange frictions and equilibriums.- Mark McElhatten Mark McElhatten is an independent film curator and is currently teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute. The Little Lieutenant (Henry Hills, Sally Silvers, 1993; music by John Zorn, Kurt Weil; c. 10 mins, Color, 16mm). I'll Walk With God (Scott Stark, 1994; music by Mario Lanza; 8 mins, Color, 16mm). Shiver (Abigail Child, 1992; original music by Ikue Mori; 3 mins, Color, 3/4" video). Le Vampire (John Painlev? 1939/45; music by Duke Ellington; 9 mins, B!W, 16mm). The Color of Love (Peggy Ahwesh, 1993; taped music by Astor Piazzolla; 5 mins, Color, 16mm). Downs Are Feminine (Lewis Klahr, 1993; music by Mercury Rev; 8 mins, Color, 16mm). Glimpses of Soviet Science, Part 1 (Music by Morton Feldman; 8 mins, B!W, 16mm). Untitled Work in Progress (Birds in Prague) (Phil Solomon, 1994; tape music by Charles Ives; 2 mins, Color, 16mm). Here (Leah Singer; original music by Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth; 6 mins, B!W, 3/4" video). Is It Any Wonder Her Eyes Grew Cold (Sound Collage by Nina Fonoroff, 1994; from music by John Barry, Michel Legrand, Brian Wilson; 4 mins, audiocassette). Sonic Outlaws (Excerpt from a work in progress) (Craig Baldwin, 1994; c. 10 mins, video). The Problem So Far (Peggy and Fred in Hell, Part 7) (Leslie Thornton, 1994; music by Janice and Donald Reading, George Frederick Handel; c. 10 mins, 16mm silent/ 3/4" video with sound). Glimpses of Soviet Science, Part 2: The Spinning Top (Taped music, "found" Italian 78s; c. 3 mins, B!W, 16mm). Altair (Lewis Klahr, 1994; music by Igor Stravinsky; c. 10 mins, Color, 16mm). The Sky Socialist (excerpt) (Ken Jacobs, 1964-65, revised 1986; music by Arnold Schoenberg, c. 15 mins).