Ed Kuepper: Music for Len Lye

September 24, 2004

The Film Museum and the Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz will join forces on one evening for a special project which was initiated by the Australian "Godfather of Punk", Ed Kuepper. Music for Len Lye links film (and film history) with music, contemporary video art and live performance.
 
Inspired by the pioneering animated films which the New Zealander Len Lye created between 1929 and 1979 (including such modern classics as Trade Tattoo, Free Radicals and Colour Cry), Ed Kuepper, whose band "The Saints" wrote Punk history, composed new music. In a later stage, international artists such as Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Heimo Zobernig were invited to devise new videos employing this musical base.
 
The results of this interweaving of multiple artistic input can now be experienced in Vienna in their entirety. At 7 p.m., the Film Museum will show a selection of films by Len Lye, both in their original versions as well as with live music by Ed Kuepper. The second part of the programme, at 9 p.m. in the Kasino, will showcase Kuepper together with the artists' newly created videos.
 
"Music for Len Lye" was produced by David Pestorius (Brisbane). The presentation in Vienna is a joint project of the Kasino and Film Museum.