On May 29 at 7 pm, Wave Farm, the internationally-renowned Hudson Valley-based transmission arts non-profit, will host a one-of-a-kind event to support its popular radio arm, WGXC-FM 90.7 – the first four-screen presentation of director Gary Hustwit’s groundbreaking “generative” documentary about the life and multifaceted art and music of Brian Eno.
Wave Farm’s annual fundraiser will occur at the Hi-Way Drive-In in Coxsackie, N.Y. The unique film screening will be preceded by live performances at sunset by avant-garde guitar pioneer Fred Frith and Eucademix (Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto). There will also be interstitial music provided by SUNJIR0, one of the many aliases of Kadallah Burrowes, a transdisciplinary artist, and creative technologist who brings vital soul and aesthetic depth to the bleeding edge of technical arts.
With access to hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music, Gary Hustwit’s documentary Eno employs groundbreaking technology to accomplish something that’s never been done before: a feature film that’s never the same twice. Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes developed bespoke non-AI generative software designed to sequence scenes and create transitions out of Hustwit’s original interviews with Eno and the musician’s archive of hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music.
Each screening of Eno is unique, presenting different scenes, order, and music, and meant to be experienced live. The infinitely iterative quality of Eno resonates with the artist’s creative practice, his methods of using technology to compose music, and his endless deep dive into the mercurial essence of creativity. Eno premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The four screenings of Eno will be projected on the Hi-Way’s four large outdoor screens, with each rendering’s soundtrack transmitted to car radios on each screen’s dedicated FM frequency. The event will also be broadcast live on Wave Farm’s WGXC, 90.7 FM.
“It’s a wild idea, four different versions of the same film simultaneously on four outdoor screens,” adds director Gary Hustwit. “It will be an amazing experience, something completely in line with Wave Farm’s commitment to celebrating creativity.”
This extraordinary event will be a central fundraiser for Wave Farm’s WGXC: Radio for Open Ears, a creative community radio station serving New York’s Upper Hudson Valley on 90.7-FM and international listeners at waveform.org/listen.
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