Applied Silence makes music for Vampyr in Edmonton!

Applied Silence, my ongoing musical project with Stephen Lyons, is going to Edmonton to create live musical accompaniment to a screening of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr.

Carl Theodor Dreyer's most alluringly enigmatic film follows a young devotee of the occult who wanders into a French village cursed by a vampire. Riddled with sourceless shadows and daylight doppelgängers, Vampyr (1932) was long considered Dreyer's bête noir, but has gradually emerged as one of the era's most influential works of experimental narrative cinema.

This one-night-only Edmonton screening will feature original live accompaniment from Applied Silence—whose 2023 LP Screen Door shares several of Vampyr's themes. Led by composers Stephen Lyons and author-performer José Teodoro, and rounded out by local artists Sean Fulton and Twilla MacLeod, the quartet will forge an original soundscape of guitars, vocals, percussion, keys, and electronics, leaning heavy into atmospherics and hallucinatory lyricism.

It’s happening on August 28. Get tickets, Edmontonians!