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David Van Tieghem

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12 titles

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Film credits

1980s · 9 titles

Four American Composers: Robert Ashley poster
NR

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.

Four American Composers: Robert Ashley

1983

Perfect Lives poster
7.5

Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".

Perfect Lives

1984

Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson poster
8.2

A concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey, during the summer of 1985. The film includes songs from her 1984 album Mister Heartbreak and selections from her 1983 United States I–IV stage shows, along with eclectic, experimental visuals blending film, animation, dance and electronics.

Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson

1986

Ear-Responsibility poster
NR

A sequel to Ear to the Ground, Ear-Responsibility finds avant-garde percussionist David Van Tieghem roaming the streets of New York, discovering the inherent rhythms and music in ordinary objects, from sidewalks to subway cars.

Ear-Responsibility

1985

Ryuichi Sakamoto – Media Bahn Live poster
10.0

Features live recordings from the 1986 nationwide tour that accompanied the release of the album Miraiha Yaro. It is particularly noteworthy that the tour lineup featured a group of seasoned musicians, primarily based in New York, showcasing their talents. Incidentally, this was Sakamoto’s first solo tour, and it visited 24 venues across the country. Featuring a wide-ranging selection of tracks—including songs from Miraiha Yaro, classic hits from his YMO days, the theme from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, and a single co-written with Thomas Dolby—this is a pop album well worth listening to.

Ryuichi Sakamoto – Media Bahn Live

1986

Atalanta Strategy poster
NR

The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

Atalanta Strategy

1984

Bye Bye Kipling poster
NR

This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and performances and works by Philip Glass and the Kodo Drummers, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, and Lou Reed. In an extraordinary section, a performance in Japan of classical Western music is accompanied by a group of Kabuki dancers.

Bye Bye Kipling

1986

Ear to the Ground poster
NR

In Ear to the Ground, David Van Tieghem uses the city of Manhattan as his musical instrument, playing the surfaces of the sidewalks, buildings and phone booths with his drumsticks to elicit an ingenious range of percussive sounds.

Ear to the Ground

1982

Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons poster
NR

Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented people in the middle of America. This pilot for the series is an abstraction that plays on the meaning of life (which is unknowable) and how to make art (impossible to teach) featuring the sublime mysteries of the traveling musician.

Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons

1981

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