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UBS Openings: The Long Weekend
Friday 26 May - Monday 29 May 2006
Tate Modern

Futurist Friday
26 May 2006

Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (directed by Walther Ruttmann, 1927)
accompanied live by DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
Turbine Hall, 21.00
Admission £15.00

Berlin, Symphony of a Great City was last 
accompanied live by DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid 
in 2001. The film, directed by German avant-garde 
film pioneer Walther Ruttmann (1887-1941), 
presents a typical day in Berlin from dawn until 
midnight. The cinematography is by Relmar Kuntze, 
Robert Baberske and Laszlo Shaffer, and most of 
the film is said to have been shot using cameras 
concealed in suitcases. Many of the sequences are 
metaphorical, for example a crowd scene is 
juxtaposed with a shot of cattle, and dancers in 
a chorus line imitate a speeding train. As in his 
purely abstract films, Ruttmann presents the 
energy of movement and shapes which reflect the 
modern city in motion.

DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller, born 1970, Washington 
DC) is a composer, musician, multimedia artist 
and writer. His written work has appeared in The 
Village Voice, The Source, Artforum and Rapgun 
amongst other publications. Miller's work as a 
media artist has appeared in a wide variety of 
contexts such as the Whitney Biennial; The Venice 
Biennial for Architecture (2000); the Ludwig 
Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; 
The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many 
other museums and galleries. Miller's recent 
albums include Optometry (2002), a collaborative 
jazz project and Dubtometry (2003) featuring Lee 
'Scratch' Perry and Mad Professor. Miller's 
latest collaborative release, Drums of Death, 
features Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Chuck D of 
Public Enemy amongst others.


Surrealist Saturday
27 May 2006

Dreams that Money Can Buy (Directed by Hans Richter, 1946)
accompanied live by The Real Tuesday Weld
Turbine Hall, 21.00
Admission £15.00

Realityfilm and Tate Modern present a 21st 
century psychoanalytical, cinematic cabaret with 
live music by The Real Tuesday Weld and narration 
by English alchemist David Piper and Brazilian 
chanteuse Cibelle. Dada artist, filmmaker and 
writer Hans Richter created the extraordinary 
colour sound film Dreams That Money Can Buy 
(1946) which features a penniless protagonist who 
has the ability to create dreams and devises a 
business selling them to others. Amongst his 
customers are some of the greatest names in the 
Dadaist/Surrealist movements, all of whom make a 
very personal contribution to the film, and whose 
works will also be shown in the new displays at 
Tate Modern. Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp 
and Fernand Leger appear, for example, and their 
work comes to life in saturated Technicolor.

The Real Tuesday Weld, aka British 
singer-songwriter Stephen Coates, has with 
collaborators composed an original score for the 
film. This was last performed at the BFI National 
Film Theatre in April 2005. Stephen Coates became 
(The Real) Tuesday Weld in 1997, inspired by Al 
Bowlly and the American actress Tuesday Weld, and 
influenced by 1930s jazz, Gainsbourg and 
Morricone. The band, having grown from one to 
three to six in just under two years, now 
includes Jacques Van Ryijn (a descendant of 
Rembrandt) on clarinet, Clive Painter on guitar, 
Jed Woodhouse on percussion, Don Brisnan on Bass 
and Brian Lee on piano and violin.

Abstract Sunday
28 May 2006

Borderline 1930 (Directed by Kenneth MacPherson, 1930)
accompanied live by Courtney Pine
Turbine Hall, 21.00
Admission £15.00

Borderline is a classic of the British 
avant-garde, an experimental film depicting the 
inner states of characters involved in an 
inter-racial love triangle. Groundbreaking for 
its treatment of race and sexuality, the film was 
directed by Kenneth Macpherson (1903-1971), 
editor of the intellectual film journal Close Up 
(1927-33), the first British journal dedicated to 
film as a modernist art form. Borderline stars 
the poet HD (Hilda Doolittle) and Macpherson's 
wife, writer Winifred Bryher. The militant black 
American singer Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda 
play the leading roles in this film, which 
attempts to recreate the logic of dreams, while 
denying the viewer a traditional narrative. The 
present is indistinguishable from the past, and 
the imagined blurs into the real.

World-renowned jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine has 
been commissioned to write a new score for 
Borderline through Necessary Journeys, an Arts 
Council England funded initiative in partnership 
with the British Film Institute's Black World. 
Pine's soundtrack will re-cast Borderline in a 
new light with an alternative set of 
meanings. Pine (born 1964, London) is an 
acclaimed British jazz musician known primarily 
for his saxophone playing but he also plays the 
flute, clarinet and keyboards. His recent music 
has attempted to integrate modern British music 
such as drum and bass and garage with 
contemporary jazz styles. Pine was awarded an OBE 
in 2000 for services to jazz.

Minimalist Monday
29 May 2006

ULTRA: Extreme Economy in Electronic Music and Visualization
Ryoji Ikeda, alva noto (Carsten Nicolai), Robert Henke aka Monolake
Turbine Hall, 21.00
Admission £15.00
Ultra-Minimalism is one of the latest scenes of 
<http://www.intuitivemusic.com/tguideminimlism.html>Minimalism 
which started during the mid 90s, characterised 
by the most extreme economy of elements, 
tonalities, rhythm and recurses in the musical 
language, using electric impulses and 
<http://www.intuitivemusic.com/tguidedigital.html>digital 
tones. These performances combine live electronic 
music with large scale projections of computer 
generated graphics.
Each of the three artists in the programme will 
perform a 30 minute piece. Ryoji Ikeda will 
perform a new work, datamatics which has been 
co-commissioned by AV Festival 06 and ZeroOne San 
Jose and ISEA 2006 Symposium. This piece was 
first performed as part of the AV Festival in 
Newcastle, March 2006. alva-noto (Carsten 
Nicolai) will perform the world premier of a 
brand new work titled xerrox. Robert Henke (aka 
Monolake) will be performing a new development of 
an ongoing series of work, previously existing in 
both concert and installation versions, titled 
Atlantic Waves - an improvisational audiovisual 
performance, in collaboration with Torsten "T++" 
Pröfrock performing remotely from Germany.
Ryoji Ikeda and alva noto performances are 
produced by forma. datamatics is funded by Arts 
Council England and the Japan Foundation through 
the Performing Arts JAPAN programme.

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