Win A Double Pass To The Lepidopters: A Space Opera

Slave Pianos will join the 40-member Astra choir under the musical direction of John McCaughey, Yogyakarta mystic punk-art collective Punkasila, Indonesian singer/dancer Rachel Saraswati and virtuoso pianist Michael Kieran Harvey to present The Lepidopters: A Space Opera.

A kulturnautic expedition defying the sovereign borders of visual arts and music, The Lepidopters: A Space Opera responds to a commissioned text by sci-fi writer Mark von Schlegell, in which alien moths invade the Indonesian archipelago with the aim of colonising Earth through inter-species reproduction.

Including projected illustrations and film by Yogyakarta artists Erwan ‘Iwank’ Hersi Susanto and Terra Bajraghosa, this multi-art-form concert draws on the work of Robert Smithson to explore sonic landscapes and dystopian visions, Indonesian telepathy, ancient Javanese mysticism and art practices both traditional and modern.

Central to the staging of The Lepidopters: A Space Opera is the Sedulur Gamelan created by Slave Pianos (currently on exhibition in the Melbourne Now exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria) – a self-governing electromechanical ‘piano’ that houses 56 traditional Gamelan instruments from Yogyakarta that perform transcriptions of Indonesian, American and Australian experimental music and avant-garde sound-art of the 1970s and 1980s.

Season Sat 12 – Sun 13 Apr 2014

Time Sat 12 Apr, 3pm & 7.30pm Sun 13 Apr, 5pm

Duration 2hrs, includes interval

Venue Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne

Tickets Full $25 / Conc $20 / Student $15

Bookings artshouse.com.au or 03 9322 3713

Tone Deaf are giving readers the chance to win a double pass to the Saturday show. Enter your details below to win!

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