The Future Never Sounded Like This—Blade Runner Live

Experience Tony Scott’s sci-fi masterpiece—“Blade Runner”—like you’ve never seen it before—projected on a massive HD screen while its iconic synthesiser–heavy score from Greek composer Vangelis is performed live at Bass, in perfect sync with the film with the help of the musicians of The Avex Ensemble. Avex brings the music to life with an 11-piece band—layered synthesisers, electric strings, saxophone and flute, percussion, and a vocal soloist—turning Ridley Scott’s noir sci-fi classic into a fully immersive, cinematic concert. Now, you and Batty both will “have seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”

What Critics Said About Blade Runner When It Was First Released:

• Variety: “Ridley Scott’s… stylistically dazzling film noir” unfolds in a “brilliantly imagined Los Angeles marked by both technological wonders and horrendous squalor”… anchored by replicants so advanced that “even she doesn’t know she’s a replicant”… before the film is “virtually taken over” by Rutger Hauer, whose villain becomes “so intriguing and charismatic that one almost comes to prefer him to the more stolid hero.”

• Roger Ebert: “It looks fabulous… a seminal film,” Ebert wrote, one that “established a pervasive view of the future that has influenced science fiction films ever since”… a world of “giant global corporations, environmental decay, overcrowding”… where film noir becomes the future’s natural language…”

• The New York Times: A “...mesmerizing vision of the future… as intricately detailed as anything a science-fiction film has yet envisioned”… opening with a city “garish but bleak,” fire-belching towers and giant electronic faces… all underscored by “the rumbling of Vangelis’s eerie, highly effective score.”

When: Sunday, February 1 @ 7PM | Where: Bass Concert Hall | Tickets: Here.

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