The Music Of Madness

Cia de Teatro Corpo & Alma presents The Sound of Music.

For more than 2,000 years, a mathematical riddle has baffled the world’s greatest minds. It’s a problem of such difficulty that it has tormented those brave enough to tackle it. Some have given up in despair. Others have been driven mad. Primes are fundamental to mathematics yet they seem to surface entirely randomly along the number line. But are the primes truly random or is there some hidden pattern? It’s the greatest unsolved problem of mathematics. In The Music of the Primes, Marcus du Sautoy investigates the fascinating story of great mathematicians who have all grappled with the problem of the primes

Documentary about the work of the musician and composer Toninho Horta, master of harmonies and instrumentalist whose recognition crosses the borders of Brazil. The documentary follows the main steps of its trajectory at different stages in the history of Brazilian popular music, depicting moments of his career.

The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.

The year is 1817. Minon, a five-year-old girl, leaves her aunt Therese of Brunswick, who has raised her like a mother since her birth, to go and live with her parents, the Count and Countess von Stakelberg. One day, Gabrielle, her housekeeper, who is no longer in her right mind, reveals that her real father is the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Twenty years later, still intrigued by this confession, Minon decides to unravel the mystery of her origins. She returns to the place of her early childhood, hoping to find the truth with her aunt, who was for years the faithful friend of the great composer.

Recorded on September 28th, 2014 in Los Angeles, musicians pay tribute to their favorite George Harrison songs.

The musical production of Attack on Titan, known in Japan as Shingeki no Kyojin.

Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for relationships to develop between the three.

An all-star cast performs the music of John Kander and Fred Ebb; songs include "New York, New York" and "Cabaret."

The Echoes of the Universe – The Music of Kaija Saariaho follows the completion and performances of Saariaho’s works in different parts of the world, but also highlights the mutual cooperation of her family.

An exploration into the benefits of music in uk youth culture. Understanding the comfort it can provide.

Edy Martinez, the story of the evolution of Latin jazz and Salsa during the 50s in New York, seen through a Colombian musician, who today can walk among the crowds, whose don´t recognizing his immense legacy.

A music documentary about the independent "Fast Music" label and "The Patiphone" club in Tel Aviv from the late 90's till the late 00's.

Three part BBC series about the history of Jamaican music and it's influence on modern charts in the UK and America. Traces the story of how Caribbean island conquered the world through its music. With interviews and commentary from reggae legends as well as people on the ground, Lloyd Bradley takes up the story from the late 1950s and the development of ska, then follows the music’s journey overseas in the 1960s. But it was in the 1970s that reggae exploded into an international phenomenon with the super-stardom of Bob Marley and artists like Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff, and Third World. Since then, reggae has continued to reinvent itself as a powerful musical and cultural force.

Musician and Scientist from the Soviet Russia goes to Türkmenistan to explore and learn about Turkmen National Music. Whilst drifitng through the desert and writing down the music he learns, he comes the across the son of the legend: Karkara.

His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott.

The story begins with a comics by Kirei (Nadya Arina) on Toon's web, whose inspiration comes from Wijaya (Donny Damara), a middle-aged man and a customer of her mother's laundry (Ira Wibowo). In a suit that is often laundered by Wijaya there are confusing letters that only Kirei’s mother and Wijaya understand. The comics titled The Story of the Past goes viral in online media. The success of Kirei's comics poses a problem. Bagus, the vocalist of an indie band "Hard Head Band" whose members are Rindu (Rani Ramadhany), Jefry (Indra Jegel), and Sobirin (Jui Purwanto), gets mad because the main character in the comics is his father. Bagus accuses Kirei’s mother of cheap women for being the cause of the crack of his family. To prove that, Kirei and Bagus agree to reveal the truth between Kireii's mother and Bagus's dad. The journey to reveal the secret is not easy because the lack of information.