«There's a sense that I was the first version
of that Harmonium and this project reflects who I was becoming,» Ross says.
Separately, he rendered it in 65 different colors, titled Harmoniums, which serve as the basis
of Harmonium Mountain I, an animated video displayed in one gallery.
Not exact matches
Harmonium makes a total
of 27 strains from a facility in Mirabel, Que.
Like most
of these works, The Whole
Harmonium offers a restrained narrative that cleaves closely to documentary evidence and ventures little by way
of either critical interpretation or unifying assessment.
The Whole
Harmonium: The Life
of Wallace Stevensby paul marianisimon & schuster, 496 pages, $ 30 It was the first great American poem
of modern atheism.
The Whole
Harmonium tells the story
of a man descended from the withering traditions
of mainline Protestantism and seeking a replacement for lost belief.
Still, the
harmonium exerts enough
of a presence to give the music a devotional quality.
Punch - Drunk Love enthrals for its craftsmanship and its conviction, for its fabulous instinct for magical realism (a
harmonium appearing in the middle
of a road, a telephone booth light coming on at the moment
of joyous connection), and for a pair
of performances that almost speak more for Anderson's talent for casting than the actors themselves.
Hearing a commotion outside, he goes outside and the camera shows only a narrow, blocked - off alley, at the end
of which a
harmonium, a 19th - century instrument, is bafflingly dropped off by a cab.
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS «The Age
of Shadows» («Miljeong»), Kim Jee woon, South Korea (North American Premiere) «All I See Is You,» Marc Forster, Thailand (World Premiere) «American Honey,» Andrea Arnold, USA (North American Premiere) «American Pastoral,» Ewan McGregor, USA (World Premiere) «Asura: The City
of Madness,» Kim Sung - soo, South Korea (World Premiere) «Barakah Meets Barakah» («Barakah yoqabil Barakah»), Mahmoud Sabbagh, Saudi Arabia (North American Premiere) «Barry,» Vikram Gandhi, USA (World Premiere) «Birth
of the Dragon,» George Nolfi, USA / China / Canada (World Premiere) «The Birth
of a Nation,» Nate Parker, USA (International Premiere) «Bleed for This,» Ben Younger, USA (Canadian Premiere) «Blue Jay,» Alex Lehmann USA (World Premiere) «Brimstone,» Martin Koolhoven, Netherlands / Germany / France / Belgium / Sweden / United Kingdom (North American Premiere) «BrOTHERHOOD,» Noel Clarke, United Kingdom (International Premiere) «Carrie Pilby,» Susan Johnson, USA (World Premiere) «Catfight,» Onur Tukel, USA (World Premiere) «City
of Tiny Lights,» Pete Travis, United Kingdom (World Premiere) «The Commune» («Kollektivet») Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands (North American Premiere) «Daguerrotype» («Le Secret de la chambre noire»), Kiyoshi Kurosawa, France / Japan / Belgium (World Premiere) «A Death in the Gunj,» Konkona Sensharma, India (World Premiere) «Denial,» Mick Jackson, USA / United Kingdom (World Premiere) «Elle,» Paul Verhoeven, France (North American Premiere) «Foreign Body» («Jassad Gharib, Corps Etranger») Raja Amari, Tunisia / France (World Premiere) «Frantz,» François Ozon, France / Germany (Canadian Premiere) «The Handmaiden» («Agassi»), Park Chan - wook, South Korea (World Premiere) «
Harmonium» («Fuchi ni tatsu»), Kôji Fukada, Japan / France (North American Premiere) «I Am Not Madame Bovary,» Feng Xiaogang, China (World Premiere) «The Journey,» Nick Hamm, United Kingdom (North American Premiere) «King
of the Dancehall,» Nick Cannon, USA / Jamaica (World Premiere) «La La Land,» Damien Chazelle, USA (Canadian Premiere) «The Limehouse Golem,» Juan Carlos Medina, United Kingdom (World Premiere) «Manchester by the Sea,» Kenneth Lonergan, USA (Canadian Premiere) «Mascots,» Christopher Guest, USA (World Premiere) «Maudie,» Aisling Walsh, Canada / Ireland (Canadian Premiere) «Neruda,» Pablo Larraín, Chile / Argentina / Spain / France (World Premiere) «Nocturnal Animals,» Tom Ford, USA / United Kingdom (North American Premiere) «The Oath,» Baltasar Kormákur, Iceland (World Premiere) «Orphan» («Orpheline») Arnaud des Pallières, France (World Premiere) «Paris Can Wait,» Eleanor Coppola, USA (World Premiere) «Paterson,» Jim Jarmusch, USA (North American Premiere) «The Salesman,» Asghar Farhadi (North American Premiere) «Salt and Fire,» Werner Herzog, Germany / USA / France / Mexico (North American Premiere) «Sing,» Garth Jennings, USA / France (World Premiere) «Souvenir,» Bavo Defurne, Belgium / Luxembourg / France (North American Premiere) «Things to Come» («L'Avenir»), Mia Hansen - Løve, France / Germany (Canadian Premiere) «Toni Erdmann,» Maren Ade, Germany (Canadian Premiere) «Trespass Against Us,» Adam Smith, United Kingdom (World Premiere) «Una,» Benedict Andrews, United Kingdom (Canadian Premiere) «Unless,» Alan Gilsenan, Canada / Ireland (World Premiere) «The Wasted Times» («Luo Man Di Ke Xiao Wang Shi»), Cheng Er, China
(1957, Chuck Jones) + One Froggy Evening (1955, Chuck Jones) Rabbit
of Seville (1950, Chuck Jones) Ali Baba Bunny (1957, Chuck Jones) Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky) DP — 7.8 Wind River (2017, Taylor Sheridan) SIFF, DP — 5.1 I, Daniel Blake (2016, Ken Loach) SIFF, DP — 5.8 Ma» Rosa (2016, Brillante Mendoza) SIFF, DP — 4.8 The Beguiled (2017, Sofia Coppola) DP — 6.6 To the Wonder (2012, Terrence Malick)-- 7.5 + Knight
of Cups (2015, Terrence Malick)-- 6.3 [up from 6.1] John From (2015, João Nicolau)-- 6.5 + The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang - soo)-- 8.6 [up from 7.3] Gook (2017, Justin Chon) SIFF, DP — 5.7 A Ghost Story (2017, David Lowery) SIFF, DP — 5.7 Bérénice (1954, Eric Rohmer) Taste
of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami) SIFF, 35 mm — 8.0 Nocturama (2016, Bertrand Bonello) SIFF, DP — 7.0 Daughter
of the Nile (1987, Hou Hsiao - hsien)-- 7.2 Claire's Camera (2017, Hong Sang - soo)-- 7.0 The Day After (2017, Hong Sang - soo)-- 7.2 Nerve (2016, Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)-- 5.1 + Split (2016, M. Night Shyamalan)-- 6.2 [up from 5.8] Game
of Death (1978, Robert Clouse)-- 4.4
Harmonium (2016, Kôji Fukada)-- 5.9 The Great Wall (2016, Zhang Yimou)-- 5.7 En el Séptimo Día (2017, Jim McKay)-- 6.0 The Unbelievable Truth (1989, Hal Hartley)-- 8.3 50:50 (2013, Hong Sang - soo) Ambition (1991, Hal Hartley) + I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogang)-- 6.3 [up from 6.2] + Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)-- 8.9 [same] Tomatos Another Day (1930, James Sibley Watson) Stranger by the Lake (2013, Alain Guiraudie)-- 7.1 Staying Vertical (2016, Alain Guiraudie)-- 6.4 + Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang - soo)-- 7.8 [up from 7.2]
Recalling the family films
of Hirokazu Koreeda or even Yasujiro Ozu, with its camera an aloof observer
of subtle and understated interactions,
Harmonium is certainly a domestic drama — but it is also something much darker, capturing the violence and vindictiveness latent in family structures with an austere tension.
In a now iconic scene from Magnolia, the disparate cast are seen spontaneously singing along to Aimee Mann's Wise Up, while Punch - Drunk Love (still my favourite Anderson film) finds Adam Sandler picking his way through the wreckage
of his emotional life with the aid
of a mysterious
harmonium.
I haven't managed to fully track the role the
harmonium plays in Barry's emotional journey, though I'm developing a hunch that you could compare it to the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and that reading might help contextualize some
of those weird sound effects.
When the rest
of the band came back, Wilder and Flood had taken Gore's demo — which consisted
of a vocal and a
harmonium — and transformed it into a dance track.
Harmonium is a borderline unbearable bummer at times, but it's also quietly captivating, with smart and evocative framing and a trio
of excellent performances.
Mariko Tsutsui stars as Akié, unsatisfied small - town wife
of a withdrawn machinist named Toshio (Kanji Furutachi) and mother to a
harmonium - dabbling young girl.
Harmonium Resources include annotations, language analysis and a range
of engaging activities for students
of varying abilities.
Resources to support the teaching
of the following poems: -
Harmonium - Sonnet 43 - Quickdraw - Sister Maude - To his coy mistress - In Paris with you - The farmer's bride - Brothers - Ghazal - Born yesterday
The gentleman gazing intently at us from the jacket photo
of The Whole
Harmonium, Paul Mariani's illuminating biography
of Wallace Stevens, could be any successful businessman in midcentury America — a confident, well - fed mandarin.
Tao Tsuchiya (Rurouni Kenshin, Orange) Kyoko Yoshine (Anthem
of the Heart, Princess Jellyfish series) You Yokoyama (Eight Ranger) Mariko Tsutsui (One Missed Call,
Harmonium) Tomoko Ikuta (Kenchō Omotenashi - ka) Kunio Murai (Tokyo Ghoul) Rei Dan (Your Lie in April) Tadanobu Asano (Parasyte, Lupin III)
BRIDGET DONAHUE The scroll - like, free - hanging paintings
of the Chicago - based artist Lisa Alvarado have been most often seen as backdrops for the music group Natural Information Society, for which she plays
harmonium.
Each frame is a «
Harmonium»: a serendipitous word culled collectively from the works
of Kurt Vonnegut, Wallace Stevens and Allen Ginsberg.
Next up is the «Gateway
of Realism,» two 6 - by -11-foot, high - resolution mountain landscape images featured in the same room as three vertical screens playing an original, silent video piece called «
Harmonium Mountain I.» The short film is a festive, balletic, and at times meditative celebration
of the same landscape, reproduced 65 times over in various colors and scattered like sentient confetti.
In a sense, the
harmonium is an apt metonym for Alvarado's work as a whole, which combines layers
of frames, layers
of meaning, layers
of media, and always in a meditative way.
Called
Harmonium Mountain (2015), it is a dazzling display
of colourful projections that are presented at night with a soundtrack by John Colpitts (AKA Kid Millions).
Alvarado plays
harmonium in the experimental band Natural Information Society comprised
of multiple performers and led by multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams.
The exhibition will feature new works including a massive black and white negative print
of Colorado's Mount Sopris, printed on wood and an immersive version
of Ross»
Harmonium video world, accompanied by live music ranging from the classical canon to indie rock.
Fear not, however: I've no intention
of regaling you with terms like Schwyzerörgeli, 48 key treble Anglo concertina, Argentine Bandoneon, melodeon, or even
harmonium.