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Melting Point Gallery: Kyron with David Molina
Live Improvised Film Score
April 3, 2007 - "Noches Bohemias" – a series of visual and musical nights.
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For the short film entitled "Personal Luggage,"
by Susana Aragon, Kyron and David Molina combined talents to create the live score.
Using electronics software and acoustic improvisation, the intimate space of the Melting
Point Gallery moved with melancholic sounds, evoking feelings of loss and memory;
complimenting the film dedicated to the filmmaker's deceased parents.
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There were mirrors set in front of Kyron and David, with
the intention of using the visuals to create the sounds …but they went beyond this,
instead, transforming the energy and emotions put forth by the audience.
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David Molina had an assortment of instruments: autoharp,
cello, harmonica, and electric guitar.
Using beats as a framework, Kyron added layer upon layer of sounds created by David,
creating a complex instrumental web; which, in past decades, could only have been created
with a large ensemble.
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Creating a self-referential cinematic structure through the use of minimalist visual
elements (five short scenes). Most of the film featured a woman’s hands placing
clothes inside a suitcase, she lingered and pat them down. The same hands would find an
engraved silver flask in the suitcase and pull it out as well as old framed photos.
Another scene featured a spiraling undershot of a cathedral of trees.
Where as most of the film was in color, there was a scene when a young woman with a
nostalgic expression appeared in B& W, holding red roses in her arms.
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The five minute film repeated several times, allowing Kyron and David to slowly build the
music into a wave-like crescendo that took the audience into a rarified space between joy
and sorrow.
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