Description
It was only a lucky few iNDie Festival attendees who witnessed Alloy Orchestra’s performance of their soundtrack to the 1929 silent film “The Man with the Movie Camera” in our Blue Room last Fall, so we are pleased to bring the recording to you in the form of a double LP. Alloy Orchestra is a 3-man musical ensemble — Roger C. Miller, Ken Winokur, & Terry Donahue — who use “racks of junk,” synthesizers, and all sorts of other unusual instruments, found objects, and unlikely noisemakers to aurally accompany silent films. Roger Ebert has called them “the best in the world at accompanying silent films,” and we can’t disagree. “The Man with the Movie Camera,” directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova, is a documentary with no specific cast or narrative. In the film, a man carries out his day in the city as a member of the proud proletariat, capturing invention and the relationship between man and machine in Lenin’s Soviet Union.
