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City of Snakes

Event

City of Snakes

  • Date: Friday, 20 May 2016, 6pm
  • Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon — Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St, Southbank, VIC
  • Series: This event is part of the Metropolis New Music Festival 2016 series
  • Tickets: Standard: $39 | Concession: $29

Event Details

An urban keyboard extravaganza, featuring original multi-keyboard works by Michael Kieran Harvey

The concept of the city is explored as dystopia and as creative wellspring through music conceived through the keyboard, an instrument that reflects and encapsulates the digital age as no other.

Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre.

Program

Michael Kieran Harvey
Piano Sonata #3 (2016)
City of Snakes
From The Walls of Dis (after Robert Smithson)*
Deaths Head Mandala
N Chromium
#6, from 48 Fugues For Frank (Zappa) – ‘G-spot tornado’
#6, from The Green Brain – ‘Beetles’
Budapest Sunrise (after Saxby Pridmore)*
Kazohinia (after Sándor Szathmári)

* World premiere

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9699 3333

Featured Australian Works

48 Fugues for Frank #6 : G-Spot tornado : A homage to Zappa in 10 movements for solo piano (2009) by Michael Kieran Harvey
— performed by Michael Kieran Harvey
City of snakes : for B flat clarinet, piano, bass, and drums (2013) by Michael Kieran Harvey
— performed by Michael Kieran Harvey
Piano sonata no. 3 : "Aporia" (solo piano) (2016) by Michael Kieran Harvey — World premiere
— performed by Michael Kieran Harvey
Digital sheet music sample The Green Brain : 20 movements named after insect species (2017) ['Beetles'] by Michael Kieran Harvey
— performed by Michael Kieran Harvey

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