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Wed 12/19: Rock Movie Night at O'Leaver's
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Wednesday 12/19: Rock Movie Night at O'Leaver's - IT'S FREE !!!!
1322 S. Saddle Creek Rd. 9:30 pm

Haack: King of Techno

"Haack: King of Techno", directed by Webster University alum Philip Anagnos, is the rather astonishing story of Bruce Haack, one of the first musicians to use computers in his work. What is perhaps most remarkable about Haack's music is that, despite its electronic sources and machine-generated rhythms, it is very human, even, at times, sad and wistful, like the dying computer in "2001."

Like Beck and some of the other contemporary musicians he has influenced, Haack created songs and aural compilations that can be warm and friendly or angry and scathing - music that has a strong personality. It is sometimes quite cheerful, and it makes sense that Haack and his partner, dance teacher Esther Nelson, made their living in the 1960s and 1970s recording music for children. Significantly, one was called "The Way Out Record for Children."

Haack, born in 1931, moved to New York from his native Canada to attend Juilliard music school. One of his earliest inventions was the People-odian, a thereminlike electronic instrument that changed in pitch and timber as Haack ran his hands over someone's face and body. For a time, Haack found a home on public television on "Mister Rogers Neighborhood." As more than one person comments in the film, the children's show was already pretty psychedelic, and Haack's music just added to the mind-warping, time-stretching, hipster-nerd ambiance.

Haack also dabbled in acid rock and even some early techno-rap, but his inability to get his music taken seriously led to depression and addictions. He died in 1988, virtually unknown, but is now being rediscovered by a variety of younger musicians.

Director Anagnos puts the story together very shrewdly, given the paucity of visual records of Haack's life and career. He uses intentionally cheesy old-fashioned graphic devices, like bouncing logos and talking heads isolated in fake television screens, and the loose-limbed visuals add to the hypnotic, laughing-gas effects of the music. - Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Re: Wed 12/19: Rock Movie Night at O'Leaver's
« Reply #1 on Dec 19, 2006, 5:55pm »

Sorry - that's Wednesday, 12/20

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« Reply #2 on Dec 20, 2006, 9:23am »

I'll be there!

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Wednesday 12/19: Rock Movie Night at O'Leaver's - IT'S FREE !!!!
1322 S. Saddle Creek Rd. 9:30 pm

Haack: King of Techno

"Haack: King of Techno", directed by Webster University alum Philip Anagnos, is the rather astonishing story of Bruce Haack, one of the first musicians to use computers in his work. What is perhaps most remarkable about Haack's music is that, despite its electronic sources and machine-generated rhythms, it is very human, even, at times, sad and wistful, like the dying computer in "2001."

Like Beck and some of the other contemporary musicians he has influenced, Haack created songs and aural compilations that can be warm and friendly or angry and scathing - music that has a strong personality. It is sometimes quite cheerful, and it makes sense that Haack and his partner, dance teacher Esther Nelson, made their living in the 1960s and 1970s recording music for children. Significantly, one was called "The Way Out Record for Children."

Haack, born in 1931, moved to New York from his native Canada to attend Juilliard music school. One of his earliest inventions was the People-odian, a thereminlike electronic instrument that changed in pitch and timber as Haack ran his hands over someone's face and body. For a time, Haack found a home on public television on "Mister Rogers Neighborhood." As more than one person comments in the film, the children's show was already pretty psychedelic, and Haack's music just added to the mind-warping, time-stretching, hipster-nerd ambiance.

Haack also dabbled in acid rock and even some early techno-rap, but his inability to get his music taken seriously led to depression and addictions. He died in 1988, virtually unknown, but is now being rediscovered by a variety of younger musicians.

Director Anagnos puts the story together very shrewdly, given the paucity of visual records of Haack's life and career. He uses intentionally cheesy old-fashioned graphic devices, like bouncing logos and talking heads isolated in fake television screens, and the loose-limbed visuals add to the hypnotic, laughing-gas effects of the music. - Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Re: Wed 12/19: Rock Movie Night at O'Leaver's
« Reply #4 on Mar 21, 2007, 11:26am »

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Wednesday 12/19: Rock Movie Night at O'Leaver's - IT'S FREE !!!!
1322 S. Saddle Creek Rd. 9:30 pm

Haack: King of Techno

"Haack: King of Techno", directed by Webster University alum Philip Anagnos, is the rather astonishing story of Bruce Haack, one of the first musicians to use computers in his work. What is perhaps most remarkable about Haack's music is that, despite its electronic sources and machine-generated rhythms, it is very human, even, at times, sad and wistful, like the dying computer in "2001."

Like Beck and some of the other contemporary musicians he has influenced, Haack created songs and aural compilations that can be warm and friendly or angry and scathing - music that has a strong personality. It is sometimes quite cheerful, and it makes sense that Haack and his partner, dance teacher Esther Nelson, made their living in the 1960s and 1970s recording music for children. Significantly, one was called "The Way Out Record for Children."

Haack, born in 1931, moved to New York from his native Canada to attend Juilliard music school. One of his earliest inventions was the People-odian, a thereminlike electronic instrument that changed in pitch and timber as Haack ran his hands over someone's face and body. For a time, Haack found a home on public television on "Mister Rogers Neighborhood." As more than one person comments in the film, the children's show was already pretty psychedelic, and Haack's music just added to the mind-warping, time-stretching, hipster-nerd ambiance.

Haack also dabbled in acid rock and even some early techno-rap, but his inability to get his music taken seriously led to depression and addictions. He died in 1988, virtually unknown, but is now being rediscovered by a variety of younger musicians.

Director Anagnos puts the story together very shrewdly, given the paucity of visual records of Haack's life and career. He uses intentionally cheesy old-fashioned graphic devices, like bouncing logos and talking heads isolated in fake television screens, and the loose-limbed visuals add to the hypnotic, laughing-gas effects of the music. - Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Re: Wed 12/19: Rock Movie Night at O'Leaver's
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Wednesday 12/19: Rock Movie Night at O'Leaver's - IT'S FREE !!!!
1322 S. Saddle Creek Rd. 9:30 pm

Haack: King of Techno

"Haack: King of Techno", directed by Webster University alum Philip Anagnos, is the rather astonishing story of Bruce Haack, one of the first musicians to use computers in his work. What is perhaps most remarkable about Haack's music is that, despite its electronic sources and machine-generated rhythms, it is very human, even, at times, sad and wistful, like the dying computer in "2001."

Like Beck and some of the other contemporary musicians he has influenced, Haack created songs and aural compilations that can be warm and friendly or angry and scathing - music that has a strong personality. It is sometimes quite cheerful, and it makes sense that Haack and his partner, dance teacher Esther Nelson, made their living in the 1960s and 1970s recording music for children. Significantly, one was called "The Way Out Record for Children."

Haack, born in 1931, moved to New York from his native Canada to attend Juilliard music school. One of his earliest inventions was the People-odian, a thereminlike electronic instrument that changed in pitch and timber as Haack ran his hands over someone's face and body. For a time, Haack found a home on public television on "Mister Rogers Neighborhood." As more than one person comments in the film, the children's show was already pretty psychedelic, and Haack's music just added to the mind-warping, time-stretching, hipster-nerd ambiance.

Haack also dabbled in acid rock and even some early techno-rap, but his inability to get his music taken seriously led to depression and addictions. He died in 1988, virtually unknown, but is now being rediscovered by a variety of younger musicians.

Director Anagnos puts the story together very shrewdly, given the paucity of visual records of Haack's life and career. He uses intentionally cheesy old-fashioned graphic devices, like bouncing logos and talking heads isolated in fake television screens, and the loose-limbed visuals add to the hypnotic, laughing-gas effects of the music. - Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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