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Percussionist Roger Braun and pianist André Gribou bring their completely improvised concerts to the movies, featuring percussion from around the world and “prepared” and concert pianos. They improvise new scores for critically acclaimed films from different eras— not just films from the “silent” era, but spontaneous new soundtracks for classic films in a live concert format. This season they bring their unique approach to the 1981 sci-fi dystopian tour-de-force Blade Runner.

About Blade Runner

In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard hunts for fugitive, murderous replicants—and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul.

Duo Unprepared will perform alongside the “Final Cut” version of Blade Runner.

About Duo Unprepared

Roger Braun (percussion) and Andre Gribou (pianos) have worked together in a wide variety of performance settings since 2000. While this includes completely improvised music – where they found they had an unusual chemistry – they also perform frequently together in classical, jazz, and world music settings. As their affinity for performing improvised music together grew they began to collaborate with other artists including world-renown improvisational dancers, Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser. Braun and Gribou have appeared on numerous concert series including Washington D.C.’s Dance Place performance series, the University of Michigan, Ohio University, and Denison University. With frequent collaborator, percussionist, Anthony Di Sanza, they recently performed in Chateau d’Oex, Switzerland at the 2015 International Society for Improvised Music Conference and a tour of Wisconsin Universities.

This event will feature an intermission. General admission is $8 (Students $5).

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117 MIN

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey firmly stands in the pantheon of cinema partly due to its mystery, its spectacle, and its iconic soundtrack. But did you know that before he settled on well-known orchestral pieces that are now part of film history, Kubrick left a finished original score for the nearly three-hour epic on the cutting room floor? It begs the question: what would the experience of 2001 be like with an entirely different sound? Duo Unprepared offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to answer that question with a live, improvised performance set to an all-time classic film this December…

“I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — Hal 9000

With 2001: A Space Odyssey, director Stanley Kubrick redefined the limits of filmmaking in this classic science fiction masterpiece; a contemplation on the nature of humanity.

2001: A Space Odyssey spans from the dawn of man to its title year. Stone Age Earth: In the presence of a mysterious black obelisk, pre-humans discover the use of tools — and weapons — violently taking first steps toward intelligence. 1999: On Earth’s moon astronauts uncover another mysterious black obelisk. 2001: Between Earth and Jupiter, the spacecraft’s intelligent computer makes a mistake that kills most of the human crew — then continues to kill to hide its error. Beyond Time: The sole survivor of the journey to Jupiter ascends to the next level of humanity.

Based on the short story The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey showed the way for all other special effects-laden films that followed.

This event will feature an intermission.

About Duo Unprepared

Roger Braun (percussion) and Andre Gribou (pianos) have worked together in a wide variety of performance settings since 2000. While this includes completely improvised music – where they found they had an unusual chemistry – they also perform frequently together in classical, jazz, and world music settings. As their affinity for performing improvised music together grew they began to collaborate with other artists including world-renown improvisational dancers, Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser. Braun and Gribou have appeared on numerous concert series including Washington D.C.’s Dance Place performance series, the University of Michigan, Ohio University, and Denison University. With frequent collaborator, percussionist, Anthony Di Sanza, they recently performed in Chateau d’Oex, Switzerland at the 2015 International Society for Improvised Music Conference and a tour of Wisconsin Universities.

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150 MIN

From the director of 20 Feet From Stardom comes a documentary about the power of artistic expression and creative collaboration. Music of Strangers is an intimate look into the personal history of the members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, a project that the celebrated cellist began in 2000.

Precedes Silk Road Ensemble Musician Cristina Pato’s performance at OU’s Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium on the following Monday, September 24th.

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96 MIN