Silent Orchestra returns to AFI Silver with two shows on October 27. This year we are adding some chilling new sounds and some updated arrangements. This film still amazes and inspires us after more than eight years and probably over 100 viewings.

The AFI Silver screening of Nosferatu was selected again in The Washington Post's Here & Now..

2005: Nosferatu at AFI Silver

This is a beautiful theater and a fantastic room for us. Both shows were even more special thanks to James White (WAMU's host of All Things Considered) who gave us a powerful and haunting introduction.

The AFI Silver screenings of Nosferatu with Silent Orchestra were featured in The Washington Post's picks of upcoming arts events. The Post Express paper also ran an interview with us.

Salomé at the Avalon

In June of 2005 we performed our Salomé score at the Avalon Theater in Washington DC. The show was a huge success and we really enjoyed playing the score we premiered at the National Gallery of Art. A warm thank you goes out to the fantastic staff at the Avalon and Connie Poole of Conduit Productions who had the vision to put us into her series of local film maker nights at the Avalon. If you haven't been there in a while, you owe it to yourself to see this magnificent old theater. We also have to thank Marcus Esposito (the "Punkrawk Soundman") who made us sound better than ever.

Look for CDs of our scores to Salome and Nosferatu in the near future.

Faust (1926) is based on the well known Germanic tale and was Murnau's last film for UFA. At almost 2 hours in length, this was our most complex and challenging score to date. Next up was the 1924 film, The Last Laugh, which had the audience in stitches for the dramatic plot changes in the last reel.

Although we've played Nosferatu on many occasions, it was a very special playing it for the diverse standing-room-only crowd at the Gallery.

Savannah Film Festival

We played for a capacity crowd of about 1200 students and festival attendees at the 2003 Savannah Film Festival. The festival is sponsored by the film department of the Savannah College of Art and Design and our sponsors included distinguished professors of the Sound Design Department. We shared a discussion panel on sound design with Dane Davis, sound designer for the Matrix films and were invited to host a class in sound design, which was not part of the festival.

Old News

Winter 2003

• L'Inhumaine and L'Homme du Large at the National Gallery
• Salomé DVD Released
• 48 Hour Films

2002

• The Silent Adventure films of Nell Shipman
• Nosferatu on Turner Classic Movies
• DVD Scoring

Fall 2001

• Nosferatu live at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference
• Nosferatu at Visions
• Nosferatu breaks sales records!

Summer 2001

• Der Golem
• 48 Hour Film Project

Fall 2000 - Winter 2001

• Salomé at the National Gallery of Art