Archaeopteryx at Queensland Museum for Anywhere Festival

We'll be filling the Queensland Museum with sound this Friday in Archaeopteryx - our show for Anywhere Festival in which strings and live electronics combine in a set of new works inspired by prehistoric birds.

We'll be performing in our five-piece configuration: string quartet and live electronics. 

Archaeopteryx is a cycle of compositions inspired by huge prehistoric birds, with each movement named after a species. Pelagornis, a seabird with a 6m wingspan, the 3m-tall flightless “terror bird” Phorusrhacos, and others, including the eponymous Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird. These long-extinct majestic winged creatures, known only through incomplete fossils, scientific descriptions and drawings, evoke a sense of transcendence and mystery which imbues the music.

In an ad-hoc performance space nestled within the aptly prehistoric Lost Creatures exhibit in Queensland Museum, audiences will be immersed in this atmosphere of ancient life, and taken on a genre-defying musical journey.

NONSEMBLE - ARCHAEOPTERYX

Presented by Anywhere Festival and Queensland Museum

At Queensland Museum, 21 May, 5:30pm

Tickets $25 Buy Tickets Here

All Ages