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Absolute Zero
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According to Absolute Zero, 'Music is a Revolution', and the band has sought to champion the cause of forward thinking ideas and sounds through their unique brand of controlled mayhem. While sharing similar ideals with the original Rock in Opposition movement, Absolute Zero's music stands as a reactionary force to the overwhelmingly stagnant state of most music today. Drawing from a pool of influences, the band combines the complexity of 20th Century Classical music composition and improvisational freedom of Jazz without losing sight of the radical elements born from the birth of rock and roll. Imagine the dissonance of Henry Cow filtered through a postmodern aggressiveness.
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Absolute Zero is one of the best known choreographies of Saburo Teshigawara. It explores the situation of complete stillness, when things cannot move, because it is minus 273 degrees. Yet in dance and life there cannot be complete stillness. "Absolute Zero" is the filming of the heartpiece of the two hour long stage version. With consequent purism the piece was adapted for the camera. The stage design is geometric: horizontal, vertical - never diagonal.
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Saburo Teshigawara's dance piece Absolute Zero explores the condition of total stillness. The heart of the two-hour long stage production was adapted for the screen with the appropriate and consequent purism. Teshigawara and his partner Kei Miyata develop an almost unnoticeable inner speed and yet everything flows to the minimalist music of Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann.
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Absolute Zero is ... a tribute to the perseverance of musicians who have followed their ideals through good times and bad, through major career setbacks and career disappointments, when less hardy souls would have called it a day. They are a tribute to Edgard Varese's "Present Day Artist." The vision of this group has endured for more than 20 years through different incarnations, and it is a credit to both Enrique's and Aislinn's spirit and determination that they are now playing with some of the most creative English musicians-Pip Pyle and Phil Miller.
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To support Absolute Zero, a national public outreach campaign has been designed to underscore how life in the 21st century is powerfully shaped by the mastery of cold. The objective of the campaign is to engage the American audience in a story that touches their lives in innumerable ways while generating the greatest possible viewership for the programs.
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The seeds of Absolute Zero were sewn over twenty five years ago, and through persistence and determination, have grown into an amazing outfit. After many revolving lineups, the basis of the current lineup took root in 1987 when Aislinn Quinn joined Enrique and Paul. During the next five years, the band composes the bulk of its written material while rehearsing and forming a cohesive unit, and despite setbacks, releases their debut EP, A Live in the Basement in 1992, recorded on a two track VCR. The next few years saw moving to Miami and the refinement of their repitore.
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