Welcome to IMMI Fest!

Each year the DIVA Center is pleased to present the Annual Festival of Improvised Music and Moving Image (IMMI Fest). This event delights the aural and visual senses featuring classic silent film, freely improvised music and progressive video, all melded together for maximum spontaneity and simultaneous sensory pleasure.
    The festival showcases west coast musicians and media artists in an intimate listening and viewing environment for optimal audience exposure. The Knotty Ensemble of Vancouver, BC/ Eugene hosts the festival. Various artists and groups visiting Eugene join the ensemble each year.
    Portland video artists Matt McCormick and Rob Tyler participate in this year's festival with a special performance on Friday evening and then offer a Saturday morning workshop on live video mixing and audio improvisation.
    This year's festival takes place at 8pm on December 14th and 15th at the DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway. Admission $5. Members/students $3 with ID.
    Saturday's workshop on Live Video Mixing and Audio Improvisation is $20. Members/students $15.00 with ID. Pre-registration with payment is required to guarantee a spot in the workshop. Call to register. Download Mail-in registration form. IMMI Fest Director Daniel Heila, slowdunk @ danielheila.com.

Read visiting artists biographical information: Matt McCormick, Rob Tyler, Knotty Ensemble

PROGRAM

December 14 (Friday) ~~~

8:00pm. : Live video mixing and audio improvisation with Matt McCormick and Rob Tyler. Very Stereo is the title for music and sound projects by .
                       
9:30pm. Feature Film: .
Silent film screening with live improvised soundtrack by Knotty Ensemble and guests. In this beautifully restored version of F.W. Murnau's classic film based on the popular newspaper serial by Gerhart Hauptmann. Alfred Abel stars as a man doomed by ambition and class. When would-be poet Lorenz (Abel) is hit by a carriage, he becomes obsessed with its passenger -- the daughter of one of the city's wealthiest families. But he can't have her. Instead, he attempts to woo her evil look-alike, a prostitute in a local nightclub

December 15 (Saturday) ~~~

8:00pm. Feature Film:
Silent film with live improvised soundtrack by Knotty Ensemble and guests. A grotesquely disfigured composer known as the "Phantom" (Lon Chaney) haunts Paris' opera house, where he's secretly grooming Christine Daae (Mary Philbin) to be an opera diva. Luring her to his underground lair, the Phantom declares his love. But Christine loves Raoul de Chagny and plans to elope with him after her next performance. When the Phantom finds out, he abducts Christine, incurring the wrath of Raoul -- and a horde of rabid Parisians.

Guest artists performing with the Knotty Ensemble include: Bill Marsh, Hashem Assadullahi, Daniel Heila, and Doug Detrick.

WORKSHOP

December 15 (Saturday) ~~~

11:00am - 1:00pm. Workshop: Improvised Performances with Sound-Image Technology.
Visiting Portland artists Matt McCormick and Rob Tyler explore the reasons for, and challenges of, performing live improvised works using audio and video technology. A round-table discussion examines the creative, aesthetic, and technological aspects involved. Fee: $20/ $15 students with ID. Pre-registration with payment required to guarantee a spot in the workshop. Call to register. Mail-in registration form available online.

DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway, Eugene, OR. Phone: