Center for Musical Arts (CMA), 200 E Baseline Rd, Lafayette, CO 80026
The Carbon Diablo Ensemble Julia Edith Rigby Mickey Lenny & Nihil Coil Diggers
Fresh from their standing-room-only presentation of Frankenstein at [LEAF] 2023, The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble and Diablo Montalban join forces once again as the Carbon Diablo Ensemble to present a live cinema, multimedia deconstruction, reconstruction, performance entitled “A Trip to the Moon” in 3-D. 3-D glasses will be provided!
The Carbon Diablo Ensemble will be resynthesizing a classic groundbreaking film — the legendary Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902) — presenting this film with immersive visuals, lights, a live score along with surprises to create a unique visual and aural journey.
This is a live recording of a piece called “Interdimensional Breach” from a set we performed as the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble at the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet’s 2023 Halloween Synth Concert at the Junkyard Social Club in Boulder. It was improvised and recorded in one take in front of a live audience.
Members of the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble include Thomas Lundy on Copper Heart articulated with dry ice (with pickup mic for live sampling), Victoria Lundy on Theremin and Live Electronics, and Mark Mosher on Synths, Live Sampling, and Heart FX performed on iPad Pro 11" M1 with a Scarlet 4I4 interface. Our performances are informed and inspired in equal parts by Pierre Schaeffer and Musique Concrète, and the Krell Electronic Tonalities of Bebe and Louis Barron.
ABOUT THIS RECORDING Audio was captured as a multi-channel recording on a Zoom L8 and was mixed and mastered in Ableton Live 11. The video was captured using a GoPro Hero 12 in 4K, and an Insta360 X3. Post-production via a MacBook M2 Pro using Final Cut Pro with custom VFX from Resolume.
CREDITS Players: Theremin, Live Electronics - Victoria @Victoria Lundy Copper Heart, Dry Ice - Thomas Lundy iPad Synths, Live Sampling, Heart FX - @Mark Mosher Post-Production: Final Cut Pro Video Editing & VFX, Insta360 X3 Framing, Resolume Graphics - Mark Mosher Ableton Live Mixing and Mastering - Mark Mosher Cover, Title Card, and Banner Art - Victoria Lundy Cameras and Footage: Front: 4K GoPro Hero 12 Black 360: 5.7K Insta360 X3 operated by The Aefonic Side: Audience Mobile footage courtesy of John R.
The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble and Diablo Montalban joined forces as the Carbon Diablo Ensemble to present a multimedia deconstruction, reconstruction, and live score for the 1910 silent film Frankenstein.
Mark Mosher of CO2E created this short recap of our performance. The venue was completely full, with overflow standing room only audience members in the anteroom and down the stairs!
Saturday April 22 : Starting @ 7PM (2 acts) Center for Musical Arts, 200 E Baseline Rd, Lafayette, CO
Carbon Diablo Ensemble - Live Cinema Performance The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble and Diablo Montalban join forces as the Carbon Diablo Ensemble to present a multimedia deconstruction, reconstruction, and live score for the 1910 silent film Frankenstein.
The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble performs improvisational musique concrète with interactive visuals. Members include Thomas Lundy on Copper Heart articulated with dry ice, Victoria Lundy on Theremin and Live Electronics, and Mark Mosher on Live Sampling, Visuals, and Mix.
Performance artist Diablo Montalban, the Master of Audio Disaster, mixes live art through sound collage, drawing inspiration from music, pop culture, and noise. Diablo works spontaneously, creating pieces that are unique for the moment.
In Diablo’s live pop-up performances, he combines multiple sound sources with natural atmospherics — combining, overlapping, reversing, whatever — to create something original, never to be performed the same way again . . . Diablo is obviously influenced by Wayne Coyne’s parking lot experiments. While Wayne’s celebrity is able to attract hundreds, Diablo is often left to his own devices with a handful of quizzical looks for his troubles. . .
Ryan Wurst and Aaron Alexander - Live Constructed VisualSonics Ryan Wurst and Aaron Alexander perform an improvisational mix of generative ambience and camera-based visuals processed and mixed in real-time. Hailing from Pueblo, CO where both teach media-based music and art at the University of Colorado, the duo explore slow-moving sonic motifs that surge and swell through live visual pan/tilt/zoom explorations of intimate environments constructed in tiny terrariums.
LEAF2023: Schedule:
March 10th – April 30th: Sync Exhibition @ The Collective Gallery
Friday, April 21st, 7pm – FREE: Rue/Bainbridge @ CMA
Saturday, April 22, 8pm – FREE: The Carbon Diablo Ensemble @ CMA
Saturday, April 22, 7pm – FREE: Ryan Wurst & Aaron Alexander @ CMA
Sunday, April 30th, 7pm – Morton Subotnick and Lillevan @ The Arts Hub: Go here for tickets
SCREAM SCREEN PRESENTS Noche de Terror Hosted by Theresa Mercado Double Feature Saturday, October 29 at 7pm • Cemetery of Terror/Don’t Panic pre-film performance by Carbon Dioxide Ensemble (CO2E) With a special Halloween party in the Henderson-Withey Lounge starting at 5:30pm with tricks, treats and prizes for best costume!!
Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave. Denver 80206
TICKETS and LINKS: https://linktr.ee/CO2E
About the CO2 Ensemble
CO2 Ensemble, a collaboration with Thomas Lundy, Victoria Lundy, and Mark Mosher, is an improvisational musique concrète ensemble performing with copper heart and dry ice, theremin, and live sampling with interactive visuals. In this unique music and multimedia act, Mark uses the Elektron Octatrack dynamic performance sampler and other electronics to live-sample Thomas Lundy as he manipulates a Copper Heart with dry ice and other objects. Victoria Lundy accompanies on theremin and live electronics. The only audio source for Octatrack besides drum samples is the input from the contact mic on the Copper Heart. Mark also provides interactive visuals with live camera input to enhance the experience.
Since 2014, CO2 Ensemble has performed multimedia concerts in and around Denver. We played the long-running Concréte Mixer concert series at the Walnut Room, were the opening act for day 2 of the Denver International Noise Fest, collaborated using graphical scores with the filmmaker Taylor Dunne, and were invited to play a music convocation for the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver performing on stage at the Gates Concert Hall.
CO2E descends from Denver’s Carbon Dioxide Orchestra, a group that performed in the 1990s and early 2000s. An earlier incarnation of the CO2 Orchestra performed in the 1980s.
About Scream Screen Scream Screen - an ongoing series of films hosted and curated by Theresa Mercado - presents a terrifying trip to Mexico to spotlight two of Mexican gore-master Rubén Galindo Jr.’s most remarkable entries to the horror canon: CEMETERY OF TERROR and DON’T PANIC!
Cemetery Of Terror: The directing debut of Rubén Galindo Jr. (DON’T PANIC, GRAVE ROBBERS), CEMETERY OF TERROR is easily the wildest zombie movie to ever emerge from Mexico! On Halloween night, a group of bored teenagers steal a corpse from the morgue and take it to a nearby cemetery. Once there, they perform a Satanic ritual in an attempt to bring it back to life. Unfortunately, the kids chose the body of a savage serial killer who had just been shot dead by police. Whoops! The group of fun-seeking youngsters unwittingly revive the undead sadist, and only occult expert Dr. Carden (legendary Mexican character actor Hugo Stiglitz) can end the madness! Filled with gratuitous gore effects that would feel right at home in a Fulci film, CEMETERY is non-stop thrills and bloodshed from beginning to end.
Don’t Panic: A bonkers tribute to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET from Mexican horror king Rubén Galindo Jr. (CEMETERY OF TERROR, GRAVE ROBBERS), DON’T PANIC is a surreal and action-packed rager that’s guaranteed to leave audiences awestruck and dumbfounded. It’s Michael’s (Jon Michael Bischof, who also performs the film’s memorable theme song) seventeenth birthday. His friends have decided to surprise him with the ultimate gift: breaking into his house and playing with a Ouija board! But this harmless fun quickly transforms into a supernatural terror, as newly-summoned demon Virgil possesses and murders Michael’s friends! Defying reality at every turn, DON’T PANIC is an awe-inspiring 1980s horror classic, now newly restored from the original 35mm camera negative.
Here's some CO2 Ensemble action from Drone Day 2022:
The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble is: Copper heart played with dry ice by Thomas Lundy, live sampled into my Octatrack, along with Victoria Lundy accompanying on Theremin and live electronics.
For more information about our ensemble, go to carbondioxideensemble.com Here is the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble’s latest performance captured in 4K video with multiple angles with interactive visuals by synthesist Mark Mosher.
Colorado Modular Synth Society (CMSS) and Luigi’s Modular Supply are putting on an all-day FREE festival celebrating modular synthesis, the people who play them and build them.
The Colorado Modular Synth Festival (CMSF) will have live music and interactive hands-on activities for kids and adults interested in synthesizers and electronic music. This is a great time to hear new music and experiment with new music technology and theories. Come learn and play with the CMSS community.
Process Reversal advocates and ensures the viability of film for all.
In a time of discontinued film stocks, disenfranchised cinemas and abandoned laboratories, filmmaking is changing. The old infrastructures have collapsed, giving us a unique opportunity; a chance to reinvent the medium. Process Reversal is an engine for exploring new ways of seeing, new ways of hearing, and new ways of speaking about film. It is the response of a vibrant community of artists and practitioners that are taking on the opportunity and the challenge of a new century for photochemical arts.
Organization
Process Reversal is a federally recognized, tax exempt 501(c)(3 charity, a volunteer-run organization operating on a collective model of sharing duties and responsibilities.
The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble played at their fundraiser on Saturday, April 8, 2017.
Come join Process Reversal at our fundraiser kickoff event!
We're raising money to expand our annual operating budget with the ultimate goal of opening a Denver-based, publicly accessible, artist-run film lab. This workspace will provide all the equipment and resources necessary for contemporary artists and filmmakers to create films on film!
There will be beer, food, live music, and an absurd amount of film projections of all varieties, from installations to performances. You can't beat the sweet sound of actual film running through projectors. It will be an analog film lovers paradise!
Meetup: Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 7:00 PM Globe Hall, 4483 Logan Street, Denver, CO
The Modular Synth Lightning Patch Walkthrough - one of the most popular themes from 2016 - is back! It will be a fun evening where up to 10 modular synth fanatics deconstruct patches before your eyes and ears. For more info, or if you'd like one of the open slots, reply with a comment on the RSVP page
Musical Performance will be by the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble with members Victoria Lundy (Theremin), Tom Lundy (Copper Heart with Dry Ice), and Mark Mosher (Live Sampling of Copper Heart with Octatrack."
Schedule: MEETUP 7-9pm 7-7:20 Arrive, get name tag, consider a donation, order food and drink at the front bar. Presenters setup their rigs.Introduce yourself and connect with your fellow synth geeks. 7:20-7:30 Meetup kickoff and announcements. 7:30-8:30 Patch walk-through lightening rounds 8:30-9:00 Intros & Mingle AFTER-MEETUP (21 and up) 9-10:30pm 9-9:30 Mingling 9:30pm Performance by the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble 10-10:30 Mingling and tear down
