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Song of the Subway Siren
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Song of the Subway Siren
A documentary by Asya Danilova
Featuring Music by Llamano
The Producers Club, NYC
Free Admission
"Song of the Subway Siren" is Danilova's exploration of Llamano's life as a subway musician using one of the most unique and expressive of instruments: the theremin. Danilova invites us to experience Llamano's music below and above ground as the musician shares the theremin's remarkable melodies with all she meets.
"I got off the F train at 14th street in Manhattan and something that sounded like the song of an electronic siren caught my ear. I was dragged to the source of the sound and saw what appeared to be a young woman waving her hands upon some kind of a wooden board. "
This is how filmmaker Asya Danilova describes meeting Llamano, a theremin musician from Japan, whose favorite concert hall is the NYC subway system.
"Song of the Subway Siren" by Asya Danilova will lure you into
the musical world Llamano creates beneath the streets of New York City, where you too will be amazed by what you hear.
Asya Danilova is an aspiring documentary filmmaker. She moved to New York about two years ago from Russia, where she studied Film criticism.
Llamano is a theremin performer and song writer from Yokohama, Japan. She studied under Japanese thereminist Yuki Yano who is a pioneer of the theremin in Japan.
She often played in music halls, pubs and galleries mostly in Tokyo.
She started playing in the subway in NYC in 2012.