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[New York Close Up]

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[Museum of the Moving Image--Astoria, Queens]

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THOLLAM MCDONAS: Oh man!

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(LAUGHTER)

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MATTHEW MARINELLI: This is going to be a great shot when the doors close.

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MARTHA COLBURN: Ahhhhh!

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["Martha Colburn & The Musicians"]

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MARTHA: God!

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Yes, this is the set list for tonight.

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[Martha Colburn--Artist]

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Which I very tentatively edited my program to and hope nothing changes.

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We’re going to start our live show. I’m Martha Colburn, these are musicians.

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[APPLAUSE]

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["Destiny Manifesto" (2006)]

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Well, with animating you end up having to spend a lot of time at home.

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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.

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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.

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But this is an opportunity for us to be alive.

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["Triumph of the Wild II" (2008-2009)]

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So some are completely improvised and some are compositions they wrote and some are not.

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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.

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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.

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You have to be able to have fun.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I uh, make these paddles which go in front of the projector so....

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And I can go red and green on either projector or...

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Some are just kind of...flashy and garish for no reason.

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It’s just fun...fun, flamboyant, fun stuff.

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Just improvisational stuff outside of animating which is so oppressive.

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And this is very freestyle. Voila!

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♪