In fall 2012, “The Reach Of Resonance” began screening for students at the Institut für Musikforschung, Universität Würzburg in Bavaria as a part of seminars led by Professor Dr. Elena Ungeheuer.

“The Reach of Resonance” screened at Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa (Constantine The Philosopher University) in Slovakia during fall 2012.


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Despite almost daily rocket attacks, "The Reach Of Resonance" screened in December 2012 at Shapir College in Sderot, Israel, one of the most heavily bombed cities in the world, on the border of the Gaza strip.

"The Reach Of Resonance" screened at Indiana Wesleyan University in February 2013, where professors Sameer Yadav and Annie Greeley (pictured here) hosted Steve Elkins as a guest lecturer on "What Is Beauty."

On April 19th, 2013, "The Reach Of Resonance" screened at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, the oldest technological university in the English speaking world. Details here: http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3153.

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"The Reach Of Resonance" will be screened at Frequency Film Festival in San Diego, California on May 30th.

More info here: http://www.frequencyfilmfestival.com/

“The Reach Of Resonance” screened at the Santander Cultural Center in Porto Alegre, Brazil in June 2013.

More info and photos below: http://candelafilms.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/the-reach-of-resonance-in-brazil/

In October 2013, four screenings of “The Reach Of Resonance” were presented at the MUTEK Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music in Mexico City. In addition to concerts by artists such as Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, Fourtet, Matmos, and others, the festival brought together artists, architects, policy makers, and urban developers from around the world to discuss innovative new ways that public space can be used for art and creative events to revive economic and cultural life in 21st-century cities, and contribute to urban renewal in city planning and community. I was a guest of the festival to speak with audiences about the relationship of The Reach Of Resonance’s subject matter to these topics.

Here's a report from the festival with photos: http://candelafilms.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/the-reach-of-resonance-mexico-city-mutek-festival-2013/

In fall 2013, "The Reach Of Resonance" became part of the syllabus for art students at NYU, thanks to award-winning artist and professor Marina Zurkow, who builds animations and participatory environments that are centered on humans and their relationship to animals, plants and the weather: http://www.o-matic.com/

"The Reach Of Resonance" screened at the Santander Cultural in Porto Alegre, Brazil in June and December 7th, 10th and 12th, 2013.

More info and photos: http://candelafilms.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/the-reach-of-resonance-in-brazil/

Deepest thanks go out to Mike Magoski and everyone at The Violet Hour for a very memorable sold-out fundraiser screening and discussion of "The Reach Of Resonance" on February 21st, 2014.

"The Reach Of Resonance" screened at the San Francisco Center For New Music on Sunday, April 13th at 2pm, in a double bill with a film about Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, and Pauline Oliveros. The screening was curated by Peter Esmonde, whose documentary on the mad genius Trimpin (who builds giant musical instruments like the one pictured here) has been programmed alongside "The Reach Of Resonance" in various parts of the world. Over the next month, CNM will screen a number of amazing music documentaries exploring the work of Nels Cline, Frank Zappa, Tom Zé, David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, Ornette Coleman, Edgard Varèse, Pierre Boulez, and musicians from Nepal, Suriname, Indonesia, and Ghana. http://www.centerfornewmusic.com

Trailer for Peter's "Trimpin" film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahQKsW0LHEA

Trimpin's Guitar Tower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWF1Al8lYBs

And Trimpin working with Kronos Quartet!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2uIOfuitBc

“The Reach Of Resonance” will screen at Trempolino in Nantes, France in April 2014 before touring to other parts of France. More details to come. http://www.trempo.com/

“The Reach Of Resonance” will be screened on June 5th, 2014 at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, in conjunction with the Northwest Film Center and the Improvisation Summit of Portland, hosted by the Creative Music Guild.

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On August 29th, “The Reach Of Resonance” made its Russian premiere in the small Siberian city of Kansk, 4500 km from Moscow in an area full of “wonderful and brave Siberian people,” pelmeni, cedar nuts, and even buses reminiscent to the old school buses of a long lost Soviet Union, a place full magic. Kansk was found on the Internet by chance and selected because Kansk in Russian is pronounced the same as Cannes. It grew as a joke….Siberia having it’s own ‘Festival de Cannes,’ that now has an international jury.

http://www.festival-cannes.ru/ru/

On October 4th, 2014, Steve Elkins was invited to give a presentation on “The Reach Of Resonance” and his new forthcoming film (currently untitled) at the Adventure Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado, discussing his experiences in extreme and remote environments around the globe documenting the incredible lengths people travel to approach the unknown, to visualize (or make audible) the invisible, to cultivate our inner image of what the world is actually like, which we then carry with us into the world to inevitably change it. http://www.adventurefilm.org/

"The Farthest Place," edited by Bernd Herzogenrath (released in January 2012), is the first critical look at the work of featured Reach Of Resonance artist John Luther Adams, whom the New Yorker critic Alex Ross has called “one of the most original musical thinkers of the new century.” In addition to the New Yorker piece by Alex Ross, and original essays by Kyle Gann and Wilco’s own Glenn Kotche, "The Farthest Place" includes essays by scholars, critics, composers, and performers, merging theoretical and historical observations, musical and environmental questions with analytical discourse and personal commentaries on Adams’s music and thought.

Czech review of "The Reach Of Resonance" published in UNI Kulturni Magazin (May 2011).

Southern California friend, art gallery owner ( http://www.hibbleton.com) and educator Jesse Latour has written a chapter discussing "The Reach Of Resonance" in his work in progress, “The Town I Live In.”

The chapter, titled “Steve Elkins, Local Hero or How I Learned Meaningful Music Still Exists” can be read here: http://jesselatour.blogspot.com/2011/10/steve-elkins-local-hero-or-how-i.html

Excerpts from a May 2011 article in OC Weekly by Dave Barton titled "The Reach Of Resonance Connects The Dots":

Lanky and unshaven, documentary filmmaker Steve Elkins navigates a fork through the potatoes on his plate as we talk about Werner Herzog—specifically, the German director's maxim that people who want to make great movies shouldn't watch movies; reading, traveling (by foot) and having life experience will serve you better than film school. "The diversity of experiences you have in life leads you toward connecting dots in different ways," Elkins says.

We're talking [with Elkins and his producer David G. Marks] about their new film, The Reach of Resonance, more art that documentary, with visuals that speak to Elkins' photography tendencies. But before Marks began his current career as a film editor, he traveled to Sweden and worked as an au pair for a time, before returning and taking a series of jobs, including as a cook at jazz club Steamers in Fullerton.

As a musician often in several bands at once, Elkins was touring, performing or recording and puzzled over how vibrations moving through the air could so profoundly affect bodies, brains and culture. He found that few people understood those questions as well as the atonal "noise" artists he knew, who seemed to have a deeper philosophical grip on those ideas. Beginning in 2002, using a miniDV camera he received for helping friend Ben Edlund (creator of the cult animated series The Tick) move to Los Angeles, Elkins began interviewing self-described "jazz/experimental music whore"/Wilco guitarist Nels Cline for a documentary. Cline modestly suggested that there were other musicians much more interesting than him and sent Elkins in their direction.

In 2008, Elkins' single-minded passion and vast knowledge about the subject, limited funds, and DIY ethic led close friend Marks to leap onboard as his producer. "We were very deliberate with all of the money we spent. It's good Steve likes sleeping in a tent," says Marks, laughing. He didn't set a money limit, just asked Elkins to tell him where he needed to film and to give him a calendar and an approximate cost.

During the year and a half of filming that now make up 80 percent of the finished movie—the other 20 percent was shot previously or is archival footage—Elkins went to Australia, San Francisco, Sarah Palin's home state, the Mexican border, France, and Slovakia. The Reach of Resonance ended up not being about Cline at all—though it's dedicated to him—but examines the work of four other artists: Aussie musical anarchist Jon Rose, who "plays" fences at worldwide political hotspots; Bob Ostertag, a performance artist and polymath who musically documented the U.S. war in El Salvador, AIDS and the gay-rights riots (1993's All the Rage with the Kronos Quartet); Miya Masaoka, whose tender musical collaboration with plants and cockroaches is incredibly compelling; and John Luther Adams, a former environmental activist living in Alaska who creates musical renderings of nature, including the magnetic field of the Aurora Borealis.

Elkins captures serene natural beauty as easily as he does unexpected moments of humor, gracefully delivering musical musings so dense the first half of the two-hour film left my head whirling amid eye-opening, thoughtful philosophical meditations. It's an amazing debut film, densely compassionate and moving, regardless of your initial feelings about "unpopular" music, as Rose calls it in the film.

The documentary's now on the festival circuit and won the Best Film Essay award at the Montreal International Festival of Films On Art in March. The Reach of Resonance will go on a museum tour as a result of its win, showing at the Louvre, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and London's Tate Modern, among others. A hell of an accomplishment, considering the other films in the festival were studio-backed or made with grants, and this low-budget, two man crew, DIY film gets one of 10 awards handed out, from 600 films submitted. "It gives you some hope for what's actually possible," says Elkins, wrapping up. "You can break through the gate keepers of culture."