SPECIAL EVENTS

Darkroom Collective

Venue: Alliance Française, 155 Loop St, Cape Town. Tel: (021)  423 5699.
Time: 8:00pm
Price: R40
Performances: 3 Jun 2009
Genre: Art/ Music

The Darkroom Collective presents the visual works of photographer Sara Gouveia on a platform where a group of musicians improvise to a slide show. The photographs are projected onto a screen every 60 seconds, allowing the musicians the time to let the music adapt to each image.  For fluidity in concept the concert moves through various visual themes of different natures from portraits of children, to landscapes, to portraits of rural families and others.  This allows the musicians the space to portray various moods with their sounds.  The band will mix improvisations with themes using the languages of jazz and electronica as influences.

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Shane Cooper – Bass, loops
The Audio part of the collective is put together for each event by Shane Lee Cooper, co-founder of sound production company Aperture Audio, bass player for the Restless Natives, Fly Paper Jet, and 2009 SAMA nominee Babu.

Jonno Sweetman - drums
Jonno is currently a member of the amazing jazz trio called Offshore. Offshore was invited to perform at the 2008 Cape Town International Jazz Festival and has worked with New York-based saxophonist Sam Thomas and US guitarist and proponent of Thelonious Monk’s music, Gary Wittner.

Lee Thomson – trumpet, fx
Lee is a well-known Cape Town based musician. He has worked with Springbok Nude Girls, Freshlyground, Fuzigish, Goldfish, Hog Hoggidy Hog and was part of Silent Revolution. He regularly works with Golliwog, Restless Natives, Closet Snare and Mark Fransman’s superb Strait and Narro’ outfit.

Sara Gouveia - photographs
Sara Gouveia is a Documentary Photographer based in Cape Town. She has a MA in International Photojournalism, Documentary and Travel Photography from the University of Bolton, part of an international study program with placement in Dalian, China.

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