LEAF 2024 – Carbon Diablo Ensemble

Friday, April 19, 7pm – FREE

Center for Musical Arts (CMA), 200 E Baseline Rd, Lafayette, CO 80026

Fresh from their standing-room-only presentation of Frankenstein at [LEAF] 2023, The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble and Diablo Montalban join forces once again as the Carbon Diablo Ensemble to present a live cinema, multimedia deconstruction, reconstruction, performance entitled “A Trip to the Moon” in 3-D.

The Carbon Diablo Ensemble will be resynthesizing a classic groundbreaking film — the legendary Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902) — presenting this film with immersive visuals, lights, a live score along with surprises to create a unique visual and aural journey.

The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble performs improvisational musique concrète with interactive visuals. Members include Thomas Lundy on Copper Heart articulated with dry ice, Victoria Lundy on Theremin and Live Electronics, and Mark Mosher on Live Synths, Visuals, and Mix. They have been performing in the Denver scene since 2014. Some performance highlights include playing the opening concert for Scream Screen’s Halloween event at the SIE FilmCenter, opening for the Denver International Noise Fest, a live multimedia performance with filmmaker Taylor Dunne, performing in the long-running Concréte Mixer concert series at the Walnut Room, and playing a music convocation at Gates Concert Hall for Lamont School of Music at DU.

Performance artist Diablo Montalban, the Master of Audio Disaster, mixes live art through sound collage, drawing inspiration from music, pop culture, and noise. Diablo works spontaneously, creating pieces that are unique for the moment.

In Diablo’s live pop-up performances, he combines multiple sound sources with natural atmospherics — combining, overlapping, reversing, whatever — to create something original, never to be performed the same way again … Diablo is obviously influenced by Wayne Coyne’s parking lot experiments. While Wayne’s celebrity is able to attract hundreds, Diablo is often left to his own devices with a handful of quizzical looks for his troubles…