This film makes Eraserhead look like a Disney production.

This film makes Eraserhead look like a Disney production.

An exceptional convergence of cinema and sound happens tonight at the Substation event known as Depths, as several of Seattle’s darkest electronic-music and noise-rock magi perform a live score for E. Elias Merhige‘s cult existential film Begotten. Trying to capture its elemental horror in sonic form will be Andrew Crawshaw (aka Meridian Arc), Demian Johnston (Great Falls, BLSPHM), Colin Dawson (T, Stickers), Justin Thomas Kleine (Terminal Fuzz Terror), and others. Before this chilling audio/visual display, BLSPHM and T will do live sets. More info here.

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...