Brian Dewan and Rob Schwimmer "All Hallow’s Eve"

The New Museum of Contemporary Art

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Tonight’s special Halloween program, curated by Janine Nichols, features the haunting experimental sounds of Brian Dewan and Rob Schwimmer in a playful holiday spirit.

Brian Dewan, referred to as “a modern day Alan Lomax” (Three Imaginary Girls), has a vocation to unearth (from yard sales, urban discards, estate auctions) and resuscitate (with electricity) the lost songs of the old, weird America. Hear the campfire song of the National Embalming School, Daniel Johnston’s “Casper, the Friendly Ghost,” the soundtrack to a cartoon filmstrip of “The Headless Horseman,” amongst other harrowing sonic explorations. Brian Dewan has exhibited drawings and filmstrips at the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, Pierogi gallery, the Armory Show, and Modern Art Oxford. His recent recording of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting Of The Snark has aired in London and New York.

A founding member of the comedy and music duo Polygraph Lounge, Rob Schwimmer creates work that has been described as “a brilliant meld of discipline, sensuality, technical acumen and freedom.” He is a “harmonically ravishing” (Gramophone) composer and pianist. He is the composer for the 2008 Academy Award winner Freeheld. Tonight Schwimmer will perform on the theremin, the only instrument that is played without being touched. Coaxing sound out of air, Schwimmer’s performance features Bernard Hermann’s music for the spiraling love scene in Hitchcock’s Vertigo and his own “Transylvania Mambo,” best understood as dance music for teenage werewolves.

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October 31, 2008 from 19:30

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