Eleven years and one week after debuting The Sounds of Science, we return to the San Francisco International Film Festival. At the end of 2011, documentarian Sam Green asked us to compose and perform music for a “live documentary” about R. Buckminster Fuller. Rehearsals were primarily in April, in between Sam’s and our other obligations. In other words, when we got to SF MOMA early in the day on the 1st, there remained all kinds of uncertainty: where precisely we’d set up, how our music would mesh through the p.a. with some of the archival footage, not to mention the question of whether we’d remember how it went. Ultimately, we were happy with the two shows, and set about finding other opportunities to do the piece again.
