At the Library of Congress's upcoming Festival of Film and Sound, Jon Mirsalis — a scientist who moonlights as a composer and pianist — will be performing his original accompaniments to a number of films from the 1920s and 30s.
And although silent film music was often guided by what were known as “cue sheets” — lists that provided a few bars of well-known tunes timed to certain scenes — Mirsalis’s approach is a blend of popular melodies and classical themes, adaptation and improvisation, interpretation and impulse. Even films that Mirsalis has seen a thousand times can take new shape depending on how he plays along. When the lights go down at the AFI Silver, Mirsalis says he’ll be “as much in the dark as everyone else.
I spoke to Mirsalis recently from his home outside San Francisco about the fine art of “live cinema.”The best analogy I can use is that some people say they prefer reading the book to seeing the movie, because when you read a book, you can read into it — the way people look, the way they speak. You can interpret it in a different way. Silent films are sort of the same. If you see a title on the screen, there are probably 30 different ways you can read the title.
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