THOLLAM MCDONAS: Oh man!
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEW MARINELLI: This is going to be a great shot when the doors close.
MARTHA COLBURN: Ahhhhh!
MARTHA: God!
Yes, this is the set list for tonight.
Which I very tentatively edited my program to and hope nothing changes.
We’re going to start our live show. I’m Martha Colburn, these are musicians.
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Well, with animating you end up having to spend a lot of time at home.
Like and when I say a lot, you know maybe you’ll go out once a month.
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Tonight, this is basically the live manifestation of everything, it’s not just my work.
It’s the work of the musicians who...who do the soundtracks regularly for the really concrete films I make.
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Animated stuff takes me a year. They make the sound.
But this is an opportunity for us to be alive.
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So some are completely improvised and some are compositions they wrote and some are not.
And...and we just kind of will make it work, I hope.
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You know it’s kind of chance. It’s freedom.
I mean I have to give the freedom...have to give the musicians freedom if I’m not giving them a million dollars too, I mean let’s face it.
You have to be able to have fun.
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(APPLAUSE)
I uh, make these paddles which go in front of the projector so....
And I can go red and green on either projector or...
Some are just kind of...flashy and garish for no reason.
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It’s just fun...fun, flamboyant, fun stuff.
Just improvisational stuff outside of animating which is so oppressive.
And this is very freestyle. Voila!
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