Crybaby "John Turner" Remix

"Crybaby" is an audio-video series that examines the culture of crying: the individual/private relationship to crying, the social/public dynamics of crying, and crying as a device in modern media, specifically film. Stripping out all narrative cues and using a variety of original and donated music scores, the video series parallels crying and filmmaking as both singularly genuine acts as well as subversively manipulative devices. Scores by Moby, Chi2 Strings, John Turner, Axel Belohoubek, duke b

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To read an article from NY ARTS Magazine about "Crybaby" and other work by Romeo Alaeff refer to:
http://figure1.com/Press/Nuit/index_large%20txt.html?option=com_content&task=view&id=962&Itemid=161

Installation View at the Chelsea Art Museum, NYC
http://www.thesonicself.org/alaeff.htm

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ABOUT THE COMPOSER
John Turner has composed for performance, theater, and numerous films, including Sam Zalutsky’s You Belong to Me, featuring the powerhouse string band Ethel, and the award-winning short Passengers (Special Jury Prize, Deauville Film Festival, France). He was recently chosen to participate in the New Dramatist/Nautilus Music Theater workshop in NYC. In 2007, John was a finalist for a Sacatar Institute residency fellowship in Bahia, Brazil and in 2005 was awarded an artist residency by the La Napoule Art Foundation in southern France. John was chosen among other composers in 2004 for the Chorus & Ensemble Composition Reading in Minneapolis by the American Composer's Forum, Vocal Essence, and the Jerome Foundation. The recipient of fellowships and grants from Boston University, New York University, and The Art Bridge Foundation, John is a member of ASCAP, the American Composers Forum and the American Music Center. He lives in Los Angeles.