Jud Yalkut's Aural Adventures

Join us at Spectacle Theater on Friday, August 30th, at 6:30pm, for a series of music-themed films by legendary experimental filmmaker and early video art pioneer Jud Yalkut!

TICKETS

Part of the series SONIC VISIONS: EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA AND MUSIC.

Program:

1. Beatles Electroniques, 1969, 16mm, sound, color, 3 minutes (Featuring music by the Beatles, electronically manipulated by Kenneth Werner)
2. D.M.T., 1966, 16mm, sound, color, 3 minutes (Featuring music by Bach and the Beatles)
3. Us Down by the Riverside, 1966, 16mm, color, sound 3 minutes (Featuring music by the Beatles)
4. The Godz, 1967, 16mm, color, sound, 9 minutes (Featuring music by the Godz)
5. Turn, Turn, Turn, 1966, 16mm, color, sound, 10 minutes (Featuring music by The Byrds)
6. Slop Print, 1973, 16mm, color, sound, 3 minutes (Featuring music by Bob Dylan)
7. China Cat Sunflower, 1973, 16mm, color, sound, 4 minutes (Featuring music by the Grateful Dead)
8. John Cage Mushroom Hunting in Stony Point, 1973, 16mm, color, silent, 8 minutes (A silent portrait of composer John Cage)

Total Run Time: 43 minutes.

Notes by Robert Schneider:

As a multimedia artist, writer, and curator, Jud Yalkut created work which ranged from static collages and 16mm documentaries on composers and artists, to works of guerilla television and video installation. Today he is above all known as a video artist and for his films that were fundamental to the emergence of Expanded Cinema, notably through his participation in the USCO collective (founded by Michael Callahan, Steve Durkee, and Gerd Stern in New York in 1963), wherein he often provided the filmic backdrops to their multimedia performances and Lightshows, and documented their work. He contributed actively from the beginning to the artistic experimentation with electronic images and intermedia, collaborating with Aldo Tambellini, Trisha Brown, Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, John Cage, Rudi Stern, and Jackie Cassen. In doing so, he created sets, environments, and experimental installations. Perhaps most iconically he recorded on 16mm film landmark events including some of Paik’s first forays into video and television manipulation and the pioneering performances Paik undertook with Moorman.

Music plays a pivotal role in Yalkut’s efforts as a filmmaker, often invoking and deploying the aural in a synesthetic and perceptually adventurous manner. Gathered here are a selection of his most notable experiments in musical visuality.