THURSTON MOORE / MAYA DEREN

Thurston Moore moved to New York in 1977, as he came of age, to play punk music. Four years later, in 1981, he formed Sonic Youth, the iconic New York-based rock band that completely changed the way alternative music was regarded by the mainstream, displaying both an ethereal and cutting-edge sound, that owes as much to improv and noise as to the experimental subversion of traditional framework. As a solo musician he's still viewed as one of the most relevant and original artists, breaking ground in creating new languages that collide with normative standards, and still has the time to write poetry and give writing classes. As a musician, the singer-writer and guitar player performs on stage with the The Thurston Moore Group, but at Vila do Conde he will perform solo, playing original music for Maya Deren's films, one of America's most iconic filmmakers. Maya Deren once declared "In film I can make the world dance". The meeting between the work of these two artistic worlds that share the same irreverence and desire for originality is shaping up to be exciting.