Joe Gallant performs Avenue X

Friday, December 21
Admission:$5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 10pm
reservations are recommended

Joe Gallant - acclaimed composer, arranger, conductor, virtuoso bass player, and director of hardcore porn - gathers a small ensemble for live accompaniment to his dystopian smut opus, Avenue X.

"Avenue X is a full-length feature that might've been perfect for the drive-in if drive-ins had survived the gas crisis and videotapes… oh, and if you could project hardcore onto building-sized screens." - Abby Ehmann, Eros-Zine

Joe on his porn work:
"The superstar of all my films and music is Manhattan Island. My experiences and memories of Times Square/East Village 70s & 80s NYC continue to add dark DNA to my film work, and illuminate my musical endeavors."

"Underground sex-film performers are the front ranks of a new humanist Resistance, committed to re-establishing the soul, spontaneity and dignity of the human experience through the filming of stark, hot and orgasm-filled clandestine sex scenes."

Joe on improv:
"I grew up on a rich, eclectic gumbo of musical genres, including a steady diet of completely free improv, as listener and participant, a great form of ecstatic conversation that can leave the participants breathless with wonder, by its best definition. I've always been surrounded by players who love to improvise. NYC has a big, long-term tradition of free players in many genres, and my favorite west-coast groups obviously speak powerful improv like a native tongue. It's a beautifully valid art and process that should be experienced, at least once, by every musician. An uncanny, fleeting telepathy occurs within the collective sound-pool when everyone is aware of everything, present yet transparent, listening and interacting, leaving holes, adding comments, building, going off to other musical rooms within the architecture. Why are some parties legendary, and others only OK? It usually has to do with the energy and eclecticism of the people present. A point is reached where one realizes, “Hey, this is a VERY cool party,” and that's usually based on whom one has spoken to or heard in conversation or observed in/shared in revelry."

2008 AVN nominations:
best director
best video feature
best screenplay
best videography
best music
best supporting actor
best supporting actress
best anal scene

Black Mirror Productions "Avenue X" distributed by HustlerVCA.