Dangerous Song

Luggate Memorial Hall, Wanaka

07/04/2017 - 09/04/2017

Festival of Colour 2017

Production Details



An intriguingly beautiful and moving musical performance that combines the human voice with the sounds of endangered and extinct animals.

Planet Earth is entering a period of remarkable extinctions but this story is not told with words, as many people have stopped listening. The story is told through sound, through the voices of the animals themselves (including the humpback whale and our very own kokako) and their calls speak directly to the heart. They are joined by one lone human voice in a song for the planet.

Linsey Pollak is a highly original and gifted musician and composer. Lizzie O’Keefe is a dynamic and commanding vocalist. Both are based in Queensland. Their music shimmers through drifting images of the natural world created by photographers Bonnie Jenkins and Jenny Pollak.

“This is the most poignant, delicate and exceptionally beautiful work of art – get there today if you can.”

“Spellbinding depth and consummate sharing of this song of the earth.”

WHEN

Friday 7 April, 10.00am
Friday 7 April, 1.00pm
Saturday 8 April, 6.00pm
Sunday 9 April, 6.00pm

WHERE

Luggate Hall

TICKETS

$39 adult, $10 student

 

 
 


Linsey Pollak musician/composer

Lizzie O'Keefe vocalist

Bonnie Jenkins and Jenny Pollak photographers


Theatre , Performance Art , Musical ,


1 hour

Speaks directly to the heart

Review by Kim Tomlin 08th Apr 2017

Dangerous Song immerses us in a truly unique and authentic multimedia experience with the natural world, told and shown through the voices, sounds and projected images and video of endangered and extinct animals. 

Highly skilled Queensland-based musicians Linsey Pollak and Lizzie O’Keefe transport us on an hypnotic and mysterious sonic adventure that is ethereal and insightful, highlighting the human and animal connection with the Earth, seamlessly and effortlessly using their original vocal and musical techniques.

Using live looping technology to record the layers of music as he plays, Linsey imitates animal calls using a clarinet-type midi controller where breath, lip pressure and fingering control real animal call samples.  These instantaneous recorded sounds provide the textured backdrop for Lizzie O’Keefe’s incredible vocal range, which is also recorded and looped live: precise mimicry of endangered and extinct creatures such as the Blakiston’s Fish Owl, the Humpback Whale, the Snouted Torrent Frog, and our very own Kōkako.

Deepening our immersion into this mysterious world, Lizzie and Linsey are shrouded in a semi-transparent screen where projected images and videos by artists Bonnie Jenkins and Jenny Pollak, use engaging techniques of superimposition and morphing imagery, often looking through a micro lens, to lure us in the natural world.

This is an incredible performance.  This is a song for the Planet, an interspecies choral work that speaks directly to the heart in a way that words cannot, and calls us to action. 

This is a show you don’t want to miss.

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