Microcinema: Jayden Barber presents a live score of In Order Not To Be Here by Deborah Stratman

Thursday October 2 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Jayden Barber is an experimental sound artist, composer, and award-winning filmmaker from Providence, Rhode Island. Barber experiments heavily with large, exposed tape loops and granular synthesis. The ritualistic atmosphere and sonic intensity of his work is documented on Live at All Saints’ Memorial Church, the first-ever night of experimental music held in the historic 19th-century Providence landmark. Barber has shared the stage with artists such as Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails, Mute Records), Benoît Pioulard (Kranky Records), Daedelus, and was featured in Italy’s Radioaktiv as one of the hottest names in the international experimental scene, in praise of his EP Border Shift.

In Order Not To Be Here is an uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. An isolation-based fear (protect us from people not like us). A fear of irregularity (eat at McDonalds, you know what to expect). A fear of thought (turn on the television). A fear of self (don’t stop moving). By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals a peculiarly 21st century hollowness… an emptiness born of our collective faith in safety and technology. This is a new genre of horror movie, attempting suburban locations as states of mind.

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