Hailed as “the alt-classical world’s main showcase” (The New York Times) and “a kind of heaven for show-goers in search of the ever-elusive, one-of-a-kind live music experience” (The Village Voice), Kaufman Music Center’s Ecstatic Music Festival returns for its sixth year, bringing together composers and performers from different musical genres or scenes for collaborations leading to performances that are adventurous and utterly unique.

Hear Quindar, featuring art historian James Merle Thomas and Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen, meld their electronic beats with Tyler’s fusion of rock and lo-fi guitar and Hallett’s eclectic compositions. They will score and perform a series of new compositions to accompany “The Lost Films of Fred Engelberg (1929–2012).” A Los Angeles-based filmmaker, musician and playwright, Engelberg’s folk records, experimental films and feature-length documentaries featured Los Angeles visual artists, 1960s counterculture, religious cults and fringe activist groups — all reflecting the political and cultural complexities of the postwar American experience. This culminated with the production of “Hearts and Minds,” the academy award-winning 1974 documentary about the Vietnam War. Engelberg’s many unreleased short and documentary films are now being restored and seen for the first time in nearly 40 years. Prompted by their research into these historic archives, Tyler, Jorgensen and Thomas will create and perform a series of electronic and acoustic compositions to accompany a selection of Engelberg’s films.

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