INTERVIEW Dave Douglas on Tackling Frankenstein

Thursday June 24, 2010

from the Toronto Star

Jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas tackles Frankenstein
By Ashante Infantry

Trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas has paired up with indie filmmaker Bill Morrison for an intriguing new multimedia work that will mark its third performance and Canadian debut at the TD Toronto Jazz Festival next week.

Spark of Being purports to be a reimagining of Frankenstein with an original score from Douglas and his electronic sextet Keystone, previously noted for generating new scores for classic movies.

Unlike most soundtracks, written after a film’s completion, Douglas and Morrison worked in tandem on sound and images.

The music has been collected on three discs: the newly released Spark of Being: Soundtrack/Expand, straightforward versions of the theme music, comes out in August, followed by Burst, extra songs that didn’t make the film, in September.

Douglas, the artistic director of the Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Centre and multiple Grammy nominee, spoke with the Star by phone from his home in New York ahead of Tuesday’s appearance at the Enwave Theatre.

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