Charlemagne Palestine The Golden Sound

Born in New York City composer performer and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine was a contemporary of Steve Reich and Phillip Glass in the avantgarde classical music scene of the 1960s and 1970s On stages filled with his own homemade stuffed animals Palestine performs his trancelike strumming music He is often referred to as a minimal composer but rejects that in favour of maximalism Anne Maregianos documentary about Palestine The Golden Sound 2011 allows the artist to tell his own story while putting his music and performance in long unedited takes at the centre of the film CloseUp Film Centre