Ezequiel Menalled
Ezequiel Menalled has composed a new soundtrack for Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterpiece, it is performed by Modelo62. ‘Battleship Potemkin’ remains the most influential silent film of all time, as well as possibly Eisenstein’s greatest work. Menalled imagines a new soundtrack to this powerful tale of rebellion and people’s uprising against oppression. Made on mesure for Modelo62 who deliver on an epic scale.
Premiered at Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam, 2022.
“The work detaches itself from being a soundtrack to a silent film and transforms the music into an eventual, possible, aural proposition of an indivisible meta-version of the film, with the film; a speculative renewed lease on a previously unforeseen and unheard of afterlife for Battleship Potemkin for which Eisenstein himself wished a new soundtrack to be created every twenty years.”
→ Credits
Composer:
Ezequiel Menalled
Clarinet, bass clarinet:
Jorge Lopez Garcia
Enric Sans i Morera
Cello:
Celia Torres Ruiz
Jan Willem Troost
Piano:
Reinier van Houdt
Guitar:
Santiago Lascurain
Percussion:
Ruben Castillo del Pozo
Double bass:
Vasilis Stefanopoulos
Violin:
Roberto Rutkauskas
Live electronics:
Ezequiel Menalled
Sound technician:
Joel Thurman
Double bass:
Vasilis Stefanopoulos
Violin:
Roberto Rutkauskas
Live electronics:
Ezequiel Menalled
Sound technician:
Joel Thurman
