Jeremy X. Halpern to Broadcast from Cannes Film Festival 5/12-16

The WEIRD gets cinematic! Jeremy X. Halpern will be exporting his weirdness to the South of France to broadcast live from the fabulous Cannes Film Festival. Mr. X will be reviewing the premiere of Mathieu Amalric's Tournée and Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, and of course will be attending all the best parties! Celebrities and fashion will be robbed of their normality at Cannes this year. Tune into http://www.Weirdos.TV from May 12th through 16th for live performances and covergae from the red carpet.

Jeremy X. Halpern is the sole proprietor of 1-800-Weirdos, and founder the multimedia performance group Verge,. He has just returned from the "Weirdos.TV Discovers America" national tour to, through, and back from the Burning Man Arts Festival. As an actor, he has worked with such notables as Anne Bogart, Jerzy Grotowski, and Eugenio Barba. As musical director of Verge, he has masterminded and composed music for such bizarre epics as "Speak of the Devil (A Satanic Cabaret)" and "Battle of the Dead Celebs (A comic dance of historical significance)", and is currently composing the score for "Mogulopolis", a music spectacle about female robots. He recently performed again in the NTUSA's highly acclaimed show, "Chautauqua!" in its return engagement at The Public Theatre.

For interview inquiries with Jeremy X. Halpern, please call Michael Martinez at 845-201-8820
1-800-Weirdos.TV is an ever-evolving live interactive international multimedia musical mash-up at midnight. 1-800-Weirdos was founded in 1995 as a retail outlet for Verge. Surprised by the volume of people who called the phone number as a "prank". Jeremy X. took recordings of their voices and used them as vocals over dance beats on the first of many 1-800-Weirdos CDs. Live weekly radio broadcasts began in 1998, and the 1-800-Weirdos radio station was featured on iTunes Radio Tuner for several years. All episodes of the radio and TV show are available for download as a podcast on Apple's iTunes Music Store. In January 2009, live midnight interactive broadcasts began on www.Weirdos.TV

During each broadcast, music is created using a dizzying array of digital synthesizers, including samples of callers and physical modeling of acoustic instruments. In addition, audio processing in realtime using digital effects and MIDI controllers creates an aural landscape that stimulates the imagination of the viewer. The visual technology includes realtime video processing of multiple cameras and multiple video overlays creating a psychedelic cornucopia of delicious eye candy.

The live shows also have interactive elements - callers to 800-934-7367 are instantly mixed into the audio feed, and often play musical instruments over the phone line for a live interactive jam! In addition to that, viewers with webcams via instant messaging software are mixed into the video feed from the third computer. Participants are encouraged to express their inner-weirdness and overcome their normality.

After the live broadcasts end, the technology is just getting started at 1-800-Weirdos! Pre-recorded videos from the 1-800-Weirdos vault as well as previous episodes of the live show are shown on the site all day and night...whenever a live show is not taking place. Also, each episode of the live show is distributed as a video podcast on Apple's iTunes Music Store and as a standard RSS feed. Shows are recorded live and are available immediately after the broadcast on DVD from www.weirdos.biz. Excerpts of the best bits from the shows are uploaded to YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook for fans to feed on. Viewers also follow Weirdos TV "tweets" on Twitter.
Previous film reviews on Weirdos.TV can be seen on the Weirdos.TV blog at: http://weirdotv.blogspot.com

WeirdosTV reviews the US Premiere of Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" at the Hamptons Film Festival, October 11th, 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGIMx-51wSc

WeirdosTV reviews Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" in IMAX 3D:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaZfDLtdUwo

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