Latitude (2009, 2011)

Future Shorts/ Future Cinema/ Secret Cinema 2007-2012

Lost Picture Show 2010-2011 (Shambala, Big Chill)

Rich Mix 2010-2012 (Making Tracks, The Cabinet Summer Tour 2010)

Whirlygig Cinema 2010-2012 (Making Tracks)

Roxy Bar & Screen 2008-2011 (Svankmajer’s Faust, The Colour of Pomegranates)

Forest Fringe 2009-2010 (Movement & Stillness; Avant-garde Scored)

Shunt 2009-2010 (Avant-Garde Scored)

The Garden of Living Cinema Tour, 2011 @Latitude, Shambala, Arts Festival by the Sea, 2011 

The Cabinet of Living Cinema explores the natural world, its flora and fauna through a series of contemporary, classic and obscure animation films. Live scores and sound effects are performed on cello, dulcimer, guitar, tablas, cajon and banjo in a number of special venues including seaside museums, galleries and hidden corners of festival arenas.

The programme:

Sound Journeys of Dorset, Summer 2011@Bournemouth Arts Festival by The Sea

An audio-art/ live music piece inspired by the elements that make up the Dorset landscape and our engagement with it through sculpture, poetry, dwelling and movement. The Sound Journeys feature live music from the Cabinet of Living Cinema and contributions from writer Jamie Wilkes, sculptor Dorothy Mitchell, poet Paul Hyland, fossil-collectors, climbers, swimmers, gardeners and others.

Kieron Maguire (guitar, viola), Robert Parkinson (dulcimer, bass), Tim Karp (banjo, dobro)

(Click on ammonite for live recording)

 Making Tracks @ Rich Mix 

In conjunction with Whirlygig Cinema, this unique, ongoing projects supports new filmmaking talent by providing a platform to have new work shown with new live scores that the filmmakers have never heard.

Camilo Tirado (percussion), Francesca Ter-berg (cello), Kieron Maguire, Catherine Ring (percussion, foley), Tim Karp (banjo, foley), Robert Parkinson (dulcimer, bass, foley)

www.whirlygigcimema.com

Wild West on Mars with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, 9th – 13th March @ Old Vic Tunnels (click on image for promo)

In conjunction with Festival Republic, The Cabinet of Living Cinema built a score to El Topo, a psychedelic western, over a 5 night period, creating all their own sound effects on a variety of foley-making instruments including kitchen utensils as well as more conventional instruments.

Camilo Tirado (percussion), Francesca Ter-berg (cello), Kieron Maguire, Robert Parkinson (as below), Tim Karp (guitar, banjo)

The Colour of Pomegranates , 26th October, 2010 @ Roxy Bar & Screen, Borough

Less a movie, more of a series of tableaux inspired by an 18th century poet, the film was made under the Soviet regime in Georgia for an illiterate almost medieval audience with a highly refined storytelling tradition and hence is unconventional stuff compared to traditional Western movie-making. But for that very reason, this was a definite in the season as one of the most visual, expressive, inspiring and wonderful movies of the rituals of childhood, monasteries and death. The closest comparison perhaps could be the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Score by: Camilo Tirado (percussion), Francesca Ter-berg (cello), Kieron Maguire and Robert Parkinson

The Cabinet Tour in conjunction with Future Shorts, Summer, 2010

In partnership with live cinema pioneers Future Shorts, The Cabinet of Living Cinema toured live scores and live animation to cities across England including Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Bristol, Bournemouth (June-July 2010), the Larmer Tree and Big Chill Festivals.

In addition to surrealist experiments, Czech claymation, Russian animated oddities, British Transport films and other rarely-seen masterpieces from the last century, The Cabinet Tour featured some of the most innovative short films of recent years courtesy of Future Shorts.

Cinema of Diaspora @ Arches, Glasgow, June 2010 (part of New Works, New Worlds) 

A meditation on identity, migration and alienation using experimental films, animation and crafted audio with live scores and live effects.

Scores by Kieron Maguire (guitar, viola) and Robert Parkinson (dulcimer, bass) and Shane Connolly (live effects, percussion).

East & West (1923)@ The Jewish Museum, March 2010

Live score to this silent Yiddish comedy commissioned by the Jewish Museum, composed and performed by Kieron Maguire and Zac Gvirtzman.

Pre-2010 Live Cinema Events

Movement and Stillness@Forest Fringe, Scottish Poetry Library (August 2009)

A triptych of performances at Edinburgh Fringe and a radio programme in the making (London Fields Radio): music, nature poetry, haiku and video art. What stillness means in a world of movement?

http://www.forestfringe.co.uk/Kieron_Maguire.htm

Avant-Garde Scored @ Shunt Vaults, Roxy Bar & Screen/ Arches St.Stephen’s/Stoke Newington International Airport (2009)

Semi-improvised scores and sound effects to an international selection features classics of avant-garde filmmaking and films by up-and-coming filmmakers. Devised by Kieron Maguire, Robert Parkinson and Little Boat.

Future Cinema Tour (2006-2007)

Commissioned by director Fabien Riggall to devise work for Future Cinema at SEOne, Fabric, Big Chill, Latitude, Thames Festival and ICA.

Cybersonica Festival, Tate Britain (2007)

Commissioned by Cybersonica Festival and Tate Britain to compose/perform live scores to films at this experimental visual/ music event.

Svankmajer’s Faust, Roxy Bar & Screen (2007)

Commissioned by Roxy Bar & Screen to score Jan Svankmajer’s surrealist masterpiece. Devised by Kieron Maguire, Sandy Bartai and Chris Reed.