Event: “Cinema Soundscapes”, an evening of voice, music and cinematic exploration. “Cinema Soundscapes” features New York contemporary music vocalist Silvie Jensen and woodwind musician Bodhan Hilash with cinema shorts and montages by Oddball Films Director Stephen Parr.
Date: Tuesday, November 20th at 8:30PM.
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco.
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating, RSVP Only.
Reservations: RSVP to: info@oddballfilm.com or phone the archive at 415.558.8117


On Tuesday, November 20th at 8:30 PM Oddball Films presents “Cinema Soundscapes”, an evening of voice, sound and live cinema featuring New York contemporary musicians mezzo-soprano vocalist Silvie Jensen and woodwind musician Bodhan Hilash. Oddball Films Director Stephen Parr will project cinema shorts and film montages. Admission is $10.00. Limited Seating RSVP to info@oddballfilm.com
“Cinematic Soundscapes” is part of a continuing sound/cinema collaboration between Stephen Parr and Bohdan Hilash. Their first public collaboration premiered at Parr’s “Sonic Oddities” cinema program at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC in September of this year. In that program Bodhan and his avant garde group 4FiveVI (www.4fivevi.com) created sound overtures and integrated live music with “Sonic Oddities” cinema selections curated by Parr.
More than just cinema accompanied with live music the performance sought to sonically explore the hidden seams in cinematic odds and ends while creating new perceptual and auditory contexts in the sound/cinema experience.
“Cinematic Soundscapes” combines the talents and ongoing collaborative experimentation of two extraordinary performers Bodhan Hilash and Silvie Jensen with the curatorial cinematics of Oddball Films Director Stephen Parr.
The program is free wheeling and informal and will feature musical performances, rare cinema shorts including the French produced “A Dream of Wild Horses”, (1971) and “Symphonies in Stone” (1942) as well as collaborative sounds improvised to double screen projections and cinema montages created by Parr.




Bodhan Hilash
A multi-faceted musician woodwind player Bohdan Hilash has appeared at many of the world's renowned concert venues and festivals as a performer of orchestral, chamber, and contemporary music, opera, musical theatre, jazz, and as a soloist.
Mr. Hilash’s diverse performance career includes projects involving jazz and world music, music for radio and television, and numerous recordings and soundtracks for feature films. He has worked extensively in the theater as a featured performer in collaboration with several leading theater companies, playwrights, and directors of the New Yorkstage including Arthur Miller and Lee Breuer. He premiered Bang on a Can’s OBIE-winning The Carbon Copy Building and performed in Carter Burwell’s Theater of the New Ear with Meryl Streep, Seymour Philip Hoffman, and Steve Buscemi.

He has performed with several of the world’s leading orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein and Zubin Mehta among many others.
Especially active in contemporary music performance, he has premiered numerous new compositions written for him throughout the world and worked with many of the field's foremost artists and ensembles including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Meredith Monk, and Speculum Musicae.

Silvie Jensen
A vocalist of extraordinary versatility and artistic breadth, mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen performs music of numerous genres spanning centuries and traversing artistic boundaries. Her unique talent can be heard with artists as diverse as Pomerium, the Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble, Ornette Coleman, and the San Francisco Symphony and critics have described her voice as '...exquisite, floating and expressive.'

Skilled in a wide variety of genres and repertoire, Ms. Jensen enjoys a wide-ranging career encompassing early and contemporary music, opera and musical theater, and ethnic, improvised, and experimental music. She has performed with conductors including Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph von Dohnanyi, and Kent Nagano at some of the world's renowned performance venues including London's Barbican Centre, Davies Hall in San Francisco, Tanglewood, and Carnegie and Zankel Halls in New York.

She has worked with many acclaimed choral ensembles including the San Francisco Opera Chorus, the Russian Chamber Chorus of New York, and the Sanctuary Choir Of Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan.

In the opera house Ms. Jensen has appeared with Ash Lawn Opera, New Amsterdam Opera, and the Mannes Baroque Ensemble among others. Her performance in Hildegard von Bingen's chant opera Ordo Virtutum was critically acclaimed by the New York Times.

Ms. Jensen has collaborated with and performed as a soloist with some of the leading figures in contemporary music including Ornette Coleman and Meredith Monk. Her numerous recordings can be heard on labels including ECM, London, Koch, and Helicon.


Stephen Parr
Stephen Parr’s cinematic and sound experiments began in the 70s when he videotaped performers as diverse as John Cage and The Ramones, later creating unique signature montages he screened around the world. From New York’s club Danceteria to the Moscow Cinemateque his burlesque dancers and female contortionists gyrated over teeming tornadoes and atomic disasters.

His previous programs have explored the erotic underbelly of sex-in-cinema (The Subject is Sex Parts 1+2), the offbeat and bizarre (Oddities Beyond Belief), the pervasive effects of propaganda (Historical Hysterical!), and more.
His ongoing cinema/sound exploration “Sonic Oddities” has been performed with live musicians such as Bodhan Hilash’s avant garde group 4FiveVI, the late Rod Poole and Evidence for the King. He has screened his programs at the World Music festival, The Belfast Film Festival , The Anthology Film Archives and many other theaters around the world. He is the director of Oddball Film+Video, a San Francisco stock footage company and director of the San Francisco Media Archive, a non profit archive.