is described in a release as a “contemporary ‘live-in-the-studio’ re-imagining” of the Residents’ 1978 album,The performance was directed by video artist John Sanborn, who has regularly collaborated with the Residents since the Nineties.special will include a marathon screening of Penelope Spheeris’ classic documentary trilogy about the Los Angeles music scene,, as well as Modern Harmonic’s reissue of a 1986 performance featuring John Cage and Sun Ra.
As for the Residents, the masked avant-garde rock collective is plotting their own 50th-anniversary celebration with a North American tour that is scheduled to launch in August.
Feature-length documentary film about The Residents premiered at SXSW: