Life On Land’s Edge

James Fairfax Theatre

Canberra International Music Festival Bowerbird Collective’s Life On Land’s Edge at the National Gallery’s James Fairfax Theatre.

Bowerbird Collective’s new project takes us inside one of the world’s most extraordinary species groups: migratory shorebirds. As an immersive musical experience flying across the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, Life of Land’s Edge draws on science, traditional Indigenous knowledge and music itself.  Colourful visual footage and narration set the framework for this most innovative duo of musicians basking in the magic of bird migration.

The performance is followed by a Q&A.

Program

Simone Slattery: Invisible Connections
Philip Glass: Opening
Anne Cawrse: Sanctuary and Ruddy Turnstone
Chris Williams: (codex) on the flight of birds
Corrina Bonshek: Far Eastern Curlew Lament
Gambirra Illume: tbc
Dai Fujikura: Star Compass
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto ‘per Chiareta’ in B flat major, Andante 
Simone Slattery: The Godwit and Curlew

Artists
Bowerbird Collective: Simone Slattery, violin and Anthony Albrecht, cello