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THE EXPERIENCE:

Pushing the boundaries of traditional storytelling, filmmaker and multimedia performer Donal Mosher hosts an intimate night of stories, musical performances, and cinema that explores the folklore, metaphors, and representation of the wind through stories, song, and film. Music by acclaimed guitarist Danny Paul Grody; multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker Arch Cape; and a very special guest appearance by world renowned guitarist and composer Marisa Anderson.

ON STAGE: By The Skin Of The Wind

The wind. The breath of life. The sound of haunting. A global current. A symbol of change, a symbol of liberation. In early folktales the wind was a magical ally. Walter Benjamin saw the Angel of History struggling against the winds of progress. Today the wind is both a source of energy and a force of destruction in an age of climate change. 

Pushing the boundaries of traditional storytelling, filmmaker and multimedia performer Donal Mosher hosts an intimate night of stories, musical performances, and cinema that explores the folklore. metaphors, and representation of the wind through stories, song, and film. Music by acclaimed guitarist Danny Paul Grody; multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker Arch Cape; and a very special guest appearance by world renowned guitarist and composer Marisa Anderson.

PERFORMERS: 

Donal Mosher (Filmmaker/Host/Storyteller) – Donal Mosher is a filmmaker, photographer, writer, and musician. His performance work combines traditional, personal, and conceptual storytelling; folk and esoteric musical instruments; and documentary and hand-manipulated archival cinema. He is the collaborative director with Michael Palmieri of the award-winning documentary features The Gospel of Eureka, and October Country.  His performance piece, Strange Gardens, has been performed at the Risk/Reward Festival and toured the U.S. with Pop Up Magazine.  He is the co-creator with Michael Palmieri of the collaborative live cinema/performance series Spectral Transmissions that has been performed at PAM CUT, The Museum Of The Moving Image NYC, The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, and many festivals world-wide. 

Marisa Anderson (Musician/Composer) – Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her playing is fluid, emotional, and masterful, featuring compositions and improvisations that re-imagine the landscape of American music. Classically trained, Anderson honed her skills playing in country, jazz and circus bands. Her current work is focused on a mid-20th century archive of recorded music from the Islamic world, Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, and NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’. Her music has been featured in Rolling Stone, NPR, The New York Times, Pitchfork, the BBC, and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival.

Arch Cape (Musician/Filmmaker) – Arch Cape is the solo musical project of visual artist and musician Rachel Blumberg. Using various forms of the drum kit, pitched and non-pitched percussion, found sounds, keyboards, and singing, Arch Cape moves between improvised ambient soundscapes and composed experimental pop songs. She often performs live to her stop motion animated and film collages. Rachel is also a member of the experimental rock band Califone, experimental jazz band Old Unconscious, and post punk power pop band Field Drums. 

Danny Paul Grody (Musician/Composer) – Danny Paul Grody is a self-taught guitarist and founding member of San Francisco-based bands Tarentel and The Drift. The melodies at the core of Danny’s songwriting bring to mind his love of traditional music, Takoma-style fingerpicking and all things minimal, repetitive & hypnotic. His debut album “Fountain” (Root Strata, 2010) laid the foundation for a steady stream of solo releases under his own name on labels including Students of Decay, Three Lobed Recordings, Geographic North, and Australia’s Longform Editions. 2021 saw the release of both solo and collaborative works, including Furniture Music II as well as contributions to Field Works album, Cedars, and companion release, Maples, Ash, and Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals. On his 2023 album Arc Of Day Danny gathered an ensemble of musicians and gave us compositions that conjured not just bird-like flights but the supportive skeleton of a bird itself—intricate, delicate, but able to carry a body (or a listener) through bright, airy spaces. That same ensemble, since renamed the Danny Paul Grody Duo, now bring us Arc of Night– a sister collection to Arc Of Day, shaped from core collaborations between Grody and percussionist/drummer Rich Douthit along with additions on select tracks from Trevor Montgomery on electric bass and Chuck Johnson on pedal steel guitar. In addition to solo and collaborative work, Danny composes music for film. His most recent work can be found on the documentary, The Gospel of Eureka (film soundtrack), written and directed by Donal Mosher and Mike Palmieri. His work can also found on the award-winning documentary, October Country, which has garnered several honors, juried prizes, and awards, including “Best Musical Score” from the renowned Cinema Eye Honors in NYC. 

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