Nosferatu

Just in time for the Halloween season, we’re giving fan-favorite Nosferatu a spectacular second life with a live original score performed by Chicago local Circuit Des Yeux (Haley Fohr) featuring Alan Sparhawk.

Experience the foundational masterpiece of horror cinema like never before. WBEZ presents a special screening of F.W. Murnau’s iconic 1922 silent film Nosferatu, brought to life with a live, original score composed and performed by Chicago’s own Circuit Des Yeux (Haley Fohr) and accompanied by special guest Alan Sparhawk.

Held in the historic majesty of the Studebaker Theater, this one-night-only performance strips away the decades to reveal the raw, haunting power of the silver screen’s first vampire. Fohr’s music—anchored by her extraordinary, four-octave voice—serves as the perfect sonic counterpart to Count Orlok’s shadow, turning a classic screening into a deeply transformative, sensory experience.

A limited number of event posters designed by Chicago-based illustrator Steve Shanabruch will be available for purchase at the event and online.

Bios:
Circuit Des Yeux (Haley Fohr)

A musician, composer, and multidisciplinary artist, Fohr’s work defies easy categorization. It has encompassed acclaimed albums, free-form improvisation and large ensemble compositions. Throughout, the center of Fohr’s music has been her voice. It is a powerful, seemingly supernatural instrument — a four-octave span that can span gentle melodies and elemental wails. The hearth of her work engages the human spirit in a deep, uncannily ancient way that few contemporary artists are able to access of their own accord. Each performance she brings to the stage leaves the listener if not transformed, certainly gifted with a new currency of internal investigation.

In 2018, Fohr created an original soundtrack for Charles Bryant’s Salomé (1923), which was commissioned by Opera North and performed at the Barbican in London, Art Institute of Chicago, and beyond. Notable artist residencies and commissions include a 40 piece choral composition with Brooklyn Youth Chorus (The Receptionist), an interactive anechoic sculpture (Big Black Box), and a for pipe organ (Breathing Machine).

Her most recent full-length, Halo on the Inside, was released earlier this year on Matador Records and was met with effusive praise from Pitchfork, NPR and The New York Times.