Exeter Picture House - Steven Severin : Live Perfomance of Film Score 'Vampyr'

Acclaimed solo artist and founder member of the legendary Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steven Severin will perform a live score to the classic 1932 chiller VAMPYR (PG) at the Exeter Picturehouse cinema on Sunday 19 February at 3.30.

Following on from his Blood of a Poet UK tour in the winter of 2010, Steven Severin returns with his new score for VAMPYR, the third in his ongoing film accompaniment series - Music for Silents.

Live in person, Siouxsie and the Banshees founder Severin presents a mesmerising synthesis of sound and image, heightening appreciation of the surreal and enigmatic nature of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s VAMPYR (1932).

The unsettling tale of fear and obsession finds its aural counterpart in Severin’s suitably textured score, a synthesised, highly atmospheric soundscape drawing the viewer rhythmically into the oneiric imagery on screen.

During their reign, Siouxsie & the Banshees established themselves as one of the foremost alternative artists and the only survivors of the London punk scene to evolve, innovate and succeed until their final demise in 2002. Severin has since committed himself almost exclusively to scoring for film & TV.

Since May 2008 Severin has been performing live accompaniment to silent films, startling audiences across the globe who have now come to expect the unexpected from the man who has crossed paths with such diverse luminaries as John Cale, Alan Moore, Jarboe, Lydia Lunch, Marc Almond, Merc Cunningham, Robert Smith and the Tiger Lillies. “Le Sang d’un Poete” received it’s premiere at the Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood in January last year and a CD of the score was to released by Cold Spring on 5th. October.

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Book in person at the cinema, by calling the Box Office on 0871 902 5730 or online at www.picturehouses.co.uk.

For future information about the event ring 01392 285960 or email exeter@picturehouses.co.uk