Gideon Freudmann
CelloBop
Greetings! Another summer has come and gone. I had an assortment of projects, contributing music for videos and dances and to songs for other musicians.
I capped off the summer with a trip to Crete, and it was spectacular. I loved so many things that I saw (and did and ate) including visiting lots of ancient ruins. Come to think of it, they're all ancient. Here's a huge cistern in Aptera that has survived the centuries surprisingly well.
I'm going to Idaho this month for a show in Mountain Home and also to attend a music conference in Boise. I have several more shows closer to home when I return including a Halloween silent film show (The Cabinet of Dr Caligari) in Washington and then Sherlock Jr in Oregon. Details about these and other shows are in the calendars below.
I have two silent films with my embedded soundtracks now available on Flash Drives !
I finished Sherlock Jr, which is one of Buster Keaton's best. The film+soundtrack is on flash drive and I also released an audio album version of the soundtrack on Bandcamp.
As much as I enjoy performing this movie, it was a blast to work in the studio making every cue line up just so and adding percussive effects and various overdubs.
In Sherlock Jr, Keaton plays a movie projectionist who dreams of being a great detective. It's an unusual film-within-a-film. Keaton's physical antics and cinematic story-telling genius are on full display in this 1924 silver screen masterpiece.
I have a Sherlock Jr show on November 6 in Hillsboro, OR.
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, in sharp contrast, is a delightfully strange German Expressionist surreal journey. I recorded a soundtrack and released it on DVD (round, shiny, obsolete things) some years ago and now that film along with my terrifying cello/drums/accordion soundtrack is also available on flash drive.
This early horror flick features the not-so-lovable Doctor Caligari and his sleepy sidekick Cesare, the somnambulist with too much eye-liner. A vampire may be more fearsome than a sleeping guy (Nosferatu came out the following year), but when he starts that slow walk with arms outstretched through the angular town, you better beware!
It's a funny/creepy/poignant film about the mysterious doctor and the even more mysterious somnambulist under his control. Now you have a new vocabulary word you can employ to impress acquaintances whilst you casually discuss early German Expressionist films as you absently waive off the sommelier.
I will be doing a Dr Caligari Show on October 30 in Freeland, WA.
Here's an image from the film which is slightly altered to highlight Cesare's special affinity for the cello:
Way back in a time known as the 1980s I was half of a cello/guitar duo with the late Peter Cummings. We we friends and neighbors from a young age and eventually started writing songs together. When we began performing we called ourselves Fern Hill and eventually changed the name to Holiday Clocks and eventually made a self-titled LP. It is long out of print but now Holiday Clocks is available on Bandcamp.
My friend, Mark Roessler, has created an amazing collection of 3-D Panoramic Tours of Olmsted Parks & other historic places on his Panorambles. website. He also wrote a wonderful book about Olmstead's life and work. You can have a glimpse of his recent visit Three Sisters Islands Niagara Falls, NY in this short video. with my music.
Concerts are listed on the gigs page. Have a fabulous day.
Gideon
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