Undying Sounds: Reinventing Komeda
Concert, music and films
Southbank Centre, Purcell Room, London, April 2025
- Venue
- Southbank Centre, Purcell Room, London
- Date
- April 2025
- Length
- 80 minutes
- Music
- Krzysztof Komeda, reinvented by Blanka Barbara
- Live
- Late Arrivals (Blanka Barbara, electronics and piano; St. Ignatius, piano), Alice Zawadzki (vocals), Emma Rawicz (saxophone), Jonny Mansfield (vibraphone), Freddie Jensen (double bass)
- Films
- Kajetan Szostok, AI-enhanced imagery
- Festival
- 23rd Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, with the Polish Cultural Institute in London
Krzysztof Komeda wrote the music for some of the boldest films in Polish and European cinema. Undying Sounds tells his story again in today's language. Blanka Barbara reworked his jazz into contemporary electronic and acoustic music and played it live with Late Arrivals, her duo with St. Ignatius, joined by Alice Zawadzki on vocals and the trio of Emma Rawicz, Jonny Mansfield and Freddie Jensen. I made the films: each piece met the classic film it was written for, re-imagined with AI, so that sound and image became one story.
The concert sold out within a month. The scores and their films:
- Knife in the Water
- Two Men and a Wardrobe
- Rosemary's Baby
- The Fearless Vampire Killers
- Barrier
- Innocent Sorcerers
- The Law and the Fist
- Goodbye, See You Tomorrow
- When Angels Fall
Biografia noża
From the concert film, with sound. Music by Krzysztof Komeda, reinvented by Blanka Barbara.
Hotel
From the concert film, with sound. Music by Krzysztof Komeda, reinvented by Blanka Barbara.
