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The star of New York’s Next Wave festival 2006 kicks off his 2008 tour of the UK and Ireland with Music For Minorities, a fascinating integration of film, music and performance. High art meets popular culture as the 80s Manhattan music and art scene are brought together in a fascinating way.

A recorded soundscape of percussion and multiple guitars is the accompaniment to a live performance that incorporates stories, interviews and songs with synchronised video, as composer and performer Mikel Rouse brings his multimedia work to Glasgow.

Music For Minorities, commissioned by UCLA Live, was shaped, sonically and conceptually, by the time Rouse spent in rural Northern Louisiana at a college artist-in-residence program. In the piece, he fuses guitar-based songs with films of interviews with numerous personalities in both Louisiana and New York, underscoring their reflections with music – all of his own direction and composition – to convey disparate stories and ideas.

Music For Minorities reflects the trademark blues style of music from Louisiana and the Southern Delta. Rouse means “minorities” to imply the lack of individuality in the current offerings of corporate media, not to be confused with its social connotation.

This assemblage of film, music and performance offers another approach to story telling in the media age.

Tickets:  £12.50

 Cancelled