ABOUT
Pigeons is a concert about the practices, perils and psychology of substituting birds with virtuoso musicians at shooting events.
Three robotic traps machines, clay target shooters, take centre stage. In choreographed, unrelenting, symphonic patterns, they hurl hundreds of fluorescent clay targets through the air, whizzing them into a wall of giant suspended, resonant, percussive objects. And as the pigeons glide, collide, smash and crash, two musicians, duck, call, flap and slide.
Is this the future of AI and music or will it just lead to broken bones? Percussionist vs Pigeon, Human vs Machine… this wild percussive world is violent, fragile, spectacular and epic. It harnesses the brutal and dangerous potential of percussion and pivots around delicate phrases all the while evoking poignant reflection about the absurdity of the current world we share.
Image Credit: Cobie Orger
Artists
Supporters
Pigeons would not have been possible without the support of the following people and organisations.
Australia Council for the Arts
City of Darebin
City of Melbourne
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