Music Monday: TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION

Rated NR; 79min; Director:Peter Esmonde  

Location: Alamo Downtown

This show is a part of the Music Monday Signature Series, Click to See More

Sponsored by Austin's greatest music store, End of an Ear Records, and Austin's most essential vintage furniture and decor store, Room Service.

In advance of national theatrical release this summer, Music Monday presents a special advance preview screening of TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION. This music documentary premiered at SXSW 2009 to sold-out audiences, and has since screened at film and music festivals throughout the U.S. and the U.K. TRIMPIN is a documentary feature profiling the life and work of a highly creative and somewhat eccentric artist / inventor / engineer / composer. The artist Trimpin generally shuns publicity, yet he has received a MacArthur "Genius" Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and many other international accolades for his outrageous musical investigations. Trimpin is renowned in both contemporary music and artistic circles for his freewheeling sound sculptures and kinetic experiments, performed across a variety of media and disciplines. Though Trimpin's studio is a strange mix of Frankenstein's lab and Santa's workshop, he is no mere tinkerer: his works are displayed in permanent collections around the world. Filmed over the course of two years, TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION shows the artist collaborating closely with Kronos Quartet on electronic and toy instruments; mounting a multi-museum, 25-year retrospective of his work; building a 60-foot tower of automatic electric guitars; working in a glass foundry on a perpetual motion sculpture; and otherwise investigating and experimenting with various kinetic and acoustic works in a wild variety of settings.

Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

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