Join us for Synth Cinema, a series of film screenings at the library! Our first film is the 1998 documentary Modulations: Cinema for the Ear

Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds. It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's electro-funk, and Prodigy's current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound. The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation. Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers.Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.

Date: Sunday, March 16th
Time: 4 pm - 6 pm
Location: Synth Library Portland
1256 Lloyd Center
Lloyd Center Mall, 2nd Floor, near DicePool
(We are just inside to your right if you enter from the 2nd floor of the Multnomah Street parking garage)

This event is a suggested donation, and all donations go to Cultures of Resistance Films, the distributor of Modulations, who has generously waived the screening fee for this event. Their mission is to create and distribute films that advance public awareness about issues of social and economic justice, and that showcase creative efforts to promote peace and protect human rights.Learn more at https://culturesofresistancefilms.com/

Please email info@synthlibraryportland.org if you have questions about this event.

More screenings of other films to come!