Sunday Happenings

Still from People Years Life courtesy HFA.

Boston's Macrotones are card carrying members of the Afrobeat revival. Though the band's website rather presumptuously claims that its "heart pounds with a more sinister urgency" and that "their commanding horns, drilling percussion and puzzle-piece precise ideal of songcraft propels minds and dancing feet alike," their music didn't strike us as more clever than competitors'—if anything Macrotones has a greater tendency for dissonance than other Afrobeat crews—but that doesn't stop it from being good listening Johnny D's Uptown, 17 Holland St., Somerville, 9:30 p.m.

Gamelan

The Broad Institute's Beeline Festival concludes with new music for gamelan composed by Dewa Ketut Alit and performed by Gamelan Galak Tika. A free gamelan workshop precedes the concert, and there will be local honey on sale (really!). Broad Institute, MIT, 7 Cambridge Center (corner of Ames and Main Streets), Cambridge. 1:30 p.m. workshop, 3 p.m. concert, $15.

Movies

The HFA's Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi program concludes with People, Years, Life (1990), which uses found, World War I era documentary footage from Russia and Armenia to construct an experimental film about the statelessness of the Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 3 p.m. $10.