Chapter Art House will host a series of newly composed scores alongside four silent films as part of the Abertoir Horror Festival.
The previously scoreless films will be getting a musical makeover by silent film composer Paul Shallcross, who will be performing a live piano accompaniment.
“It’s so much more electric, the live performance,” he explains, “when you record a film you haven’t got that feeling that the audience is there behind you and your music is generating a response.”
The four short horror films, Frankenstein, La Légende Du Fantome, Le Spectre Rouge, and The Jest are not the first films to be given a new score by Shallcross.
He has previously collaborated with the Abertoir Horror Festival on a performance of Nosferatu. He composed a new piano score for the film which was performed the festival in 2012.
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