THE MEMBER PUBLICATION OF EMP|SFM WINTER 2008 Introducing Experience: The Band New Jimi Hendrix Exhibition Science Fiction Short Film Festival 2008 Sound Off! 2008 From the Cover • Experience: The Band members: • Austin DeVries, age 15, Meadowdale High School, drums and guitar, inspired by Muse and The Strokes • Spencer Doren, age 17, Mercer Island High School, bass, inspired by Kevin Eubanks and Tool • Olivia Kosaka, age 15, Holy Names Academy, vocals, inspired by Janis Joplin, Regina Spektor • Taylor Lloyd, age 12, Stahl Jr. High School, guitar, inspired by Metallica, Stevie Ray Vaughan • Grace Noah, age 13, Seattle Let the Rocking Out Begin! Country Day School, vocals and guitar, inspired by Paramore In October, an innovative rock band program at EMP|SFM was born. Nine musicians from diverse backgrounds held their first practice session and embarked on a musical journey that could take them • Nathan Read, age 17, New to one of the most acclaimed music schools in the country. Horizon, keyboards and drums, inspired by Cradle of Filth and Experience: The Band is a part of the Berklee City Music Network, a scholarship program and partnership between Experience Music Godsmack Project|Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (EMP|SFM) and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Members of Experience: The • Robin Sadinsky, age 15, Band receive weekly music lessons by Seattle Berklee instructors Garfield High School, guitar, and practice as a rock band. Members study theory and composition, inspired by The Beatles utilize state-of-the-art online learning materials and perform concerts at EMP|SFM. • David E. Sarmiento, age 12, INFORMATION Cover image by Naomi Campbell. Hamilton Middle School, guitar, Information line: 206.770.2702 E-mail: [email protected] Experience: The Band inset photos by inspired by Nirvana and Ozzy Web site: empsfm.org Eduardo Brambilla, taken at the band’s first showcase at EMP|SFM on December Osbourne IMPRINT STAFF 15, 2007. Mandy Davis and Maggie Skinner, managing editors Event photos by Gregory A. Perez. Anita Lillig, production editor • Brogan Woodburn, age 17, Virginia Witt Abbott, designer Exhibition images by Lara Swimmer. Trio a.d.s., printer Westside Christian High School, IMPRINT is a publication of EMP|SFM Sound Off! band photos by Chona Reproduction in whole or in part without Kasinger and Eric Anderson. guitar, inspired by Steve Vai and permission is prohibited. © 2008 EMP|SFM Joe Satriani Printed on recycled paper 2 IMPRINT WINTER 2008 CEO Message Dear Members, The coming year will be filled with more of EMP|SFM’s popular The last year has been filled programs. Sound Off!—the Pacific Northwest’s largest underage with positive transformations battle of the bands in February and March; the third annual Science for the museum. In 2007, more Fiction Short Film Festival in February; Oral History Live!—intimate than 20,000 visitors attended interviews with musicians, authors, filmmakers and producers before All Access Nights at EMP|SFM, a live audience; and Family Days at EMP|SFM—featuring family- the museum’s free admission friendly activities and live music the third Saturday of every month. evening with live music that occurs the first Thursday of In late January we introduced a new two-part Jimi Hendrix exhibition every month. In addition, focusing on his guitar sound and its continued resonance with music EMP|SFM lowered its admission listeners. In the spring, the museum will push the limits of imagina- price to $15. As a result, museum attendance increased by 14 tion with machines that often imitate man in an exhibition featuring percent in 2007. We are thrilled! toy robots. This issue of IMPRINT features EMP|SFM’s Experience: The Band, a In February, a new film series will begin, in partnership with Warren new music scholarship project for teens in partnership with Berklee Etheridge from The Warren Report. Exposed: Inside Film at EMP|SFM City Music Network. We are delighted to have these deserving and will feature conversations with actors, directors and screenwriters of talented young musicians in the building. This type of program is new films, cult classics, science fiction and music films. exactly why the museum was created. Look for invitations to their first public performance at EMP|SFM in June. I look forward to seeing you at the museum soon. We have many programs and new exhibitions happening under our This fall, we held a wonderful members’ party with live music and “one-of-a-kind” roof in 2008. Join us! dancing to celebrate the opening of American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music. The exhibition has received high praise from the community. The Seattle Times was very enthusiastic saying, “Ameri- can Sabor is the best kind of museum exhibit: intoxicating and invit- ing for both music expert and novice alike. And no detail here, in this exhibit that will eventually tour the country, went overlooked.” You can visit the exhibition now through September 7, 2008. Josi Callan In November, EMP|SFM opened Innersphere: Sculptural Works [email protected] by Rik Allen. Allen, a Washington-based artist, joined members for the opening. Organized by EMP|SFM, the exhibition features glass and metal sculpture inspired by his life-long fascination with technology and science fiction. The exhibition is open now through EMP|SFM members and community partners celebrate with Joe Santiago and the Salsa April 27, 2008. All-Stars, at the American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music exhibition preview and dance party, October 12, 2007, in Sky Church. 3 IMPRINT WINTER 2008 Event Spotlights EMP|SFM Science Fiction Short Film Festival 2008 EMP|SFM, in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival session. The grand prize winner will receive a pitch meeting with SCI Group (SIFF), presents the third annual Science Fiction Short Film FI Channel executives for a chance to potentially write or direct a Festival (SFSFF) on Saturday, February 2, 2008 at the Seattle Cinerama two-hour film for the network. A jury, which includes science fiction Theatre. The SFSFF brings together industry professionals in both notables and award-winning film professionals, will view these 20 filmmaking and the genre of science fiction to encourage and films to determine the winners. Festival attendees will vote for the support new, creative additions to science fiction cinema arts. Audience Award. Twenty films have been chosen to participate in the festival on Tickets are $9 for a single session and $15 for both sessions Feb. 2. Ten of the films will be screened in the first session from 4-6 and available through the SIFF Web site, seattlefilm.org. p.m. and the other set of ten films will be screened in the second For additional information, call 206.464.5830. session from 7-9 p.m. An awards ceremony will follow the evening See page 8 for special member upgrade offer. 2008 SFSFF Film Sessions: First Session—4-6 pm Adam, Vampire (USA) Lucidity (USA) Director: Travis Jackson Director: Barry Friedman SCIA 1950s B-Movie star struggles Darren is consumed with lucid FI with the decision to cheat on his dreaming, preferring the fantasy wife while a splinter from a prop life he can create to real life with wooden stake races toward his his alienated girlfriend. Will he ever heart. An Atom-Age fairy tale. get her to understand and share in the gift he has discovered? Alpha Worm (USA) Monster Job Hunter (USA) Director: Mike Fischer Director: Yehudi Mercado Alpha Worm is a tale of survival Monster Job Hunter is about a about an astronaut and alien – at man/child rising to the occasion war with each other but drifting and becoming the hero he only helplessly through space together. dreams to be in his world of video Who will prevail in this conflict of games. willpower and intellect? Not 2b Toyed With (USA) The Apparatus (USA) Director: Hal Melfi Director: Jesse Moore Avid Star Wars toy collector Troy is A once renowned sleep therapist about to discover the power of the is losing business rapidly as a new dark side when his nephew invades sleep apparatus, the LunaScape his perfectly packaged world. What TR by HewlittLabs, begins invading happens when your world sud- the infomercial slots of late-night denly collapses all around you? television. The Recordist (USA) E:D:E:N (Italy) Director: Zal Batmanglij Director: Fabio Guaglione Charlie Hall, an alcoholic college- The human race is at risk of extinc- student, haphazardly drifts through tion. A bunch of military explorers her life. But when she meets an embark upon a space expedition older woman, who talks of aliens searching for a new habitable and the occult, Charlie begins a planet. They locate one several years journey of self-realization. later, but they soon discover that they are not alone… The Nothing Pill (USA) Director: Yu Gu Eggworld (USA) Dr. Vera Yong is a scientist Director: Vincent Le Quang compelled by an oppressive Eggworld capital – 3007. 500 government to develop the years after the great war, the egg ‘nothing pill.’ The antidote to lone- people, also known as ‘Oeumans’, liness, the pill is intended to help are living under the protection of solo astronauts in their colonization their captors, the Octoboss. A new of space. In her dying world, will find is about to change their lives she discover an escape from her forever. own painful memories? 4 IMPRINT WINTER 2008 Event Spotlights 2008 SFSFF Film Sessions: Second Session—7-9 pm Avant Petalos Grillados (Spain) Graw (USA) Director: Velasco Broca Director: Joseph Pettinatti SCI FI Second and last folder of the A masked scavenger stealing from audiovisual tryptich Echos der the victims of a horrific disaster is Büchrucken, inspired by an open forced to decide between saving tale by Elier Ansgar Wilpert.