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Ken Winokur

Ken Winokur, previously a founding member of the now-defunct Alloy Orchestra, has continued composing, recording and performing with films as well as with groups that don’t work with images.

Psychedelic Cinema Orchestra is a three-person group Ken organized to write and perform a new improvisational score for Ken Brown’s silent film Psychedelic Cinema (1969). The group has been performing since 2014 and has performed in the United States at Mass Moca, Cornell University, Hamilton College, Boston’s Museum of Contemporary Art, AFI Silver, and many other places. Internationally, the group has toured with additional Croatian musicians at venues in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Kosovo. In 2023 Psychedelic Cinema Orchestra composed a new score for the silent film, South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (1919). The group is ongoing and currently booking performances for 2025.

In addition to working with silent films, Ken has been performing with Lookie Lookie, and the eight-piece Latin Bugalu orchestra.

Winokur continues to operate his recording studio (previously known as the Chicken Loft Studio) in its new Somerville, Massachusetts, location. Ken has recorded music for numerous Boston musical groups, and has contributed additional music for local composers.

Ken Winokur also owns some film prints previously held in the Paul Killiam collection.

References: Ken Winokur.