"The Day the Earth Stood Still"

multimedia performance, 60min, USA, 2004

Blending a screening of the 1958 Sci-Fi classic "The Day the

Earth Stood Still" with live performance art and live

synthesized soundtrack, the presentation was at Santa Monica

College Academy of Entertainment & Technology in Los Angeles

and Elektro-acusticfestival at Pallorma College,San Diego.

The screening of the film was silent, with subtitles.



The event featured Monika Frycova, the Czech performance

artist, in collaboration with SMC entertainment technology

professor David Javelosa.

Javelosa created a real-time, or live, soundtrack for the film and

performance art with digital, analogue and sampling synthesizers.

Frycova provided theatrics, vocalization with synthesizers and

movement in front of the screen.