Hear the Bungarribee Trio perform a once-only musical improvisation, using as their springboard the soundscape from the Slav Epic digital experience in Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau. 

Visitors to the exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales encounter this immersive digital experience of Mucha’s late great painting cycle, the Slav Epic, which includes a soundscape composed by Gary Daley with sound designer Oliver Miller. Daley describes the composition as, following Mucha’s own approach, ‘a collage of contrasting musical elements, responding to imagery that draws the viewer into a world of disparate ideas and feelings. Symbolism, nature, spirituality, history, culture, destruction and rebirth all coalesce in the most human way.’ It is, he adds, ‘fertile terrain for music’. 

In this live performance for Art After Hours, Daley (on keyboard, accordion, electronics) and Miller (on laptop and cello) will come together with one of Australia’s most prominent reed players, Paul Cutlan, as the Bungarribee Trio in a reimagining of the piece.

Wednesday 11 September 2024 
8pm

Duration 45 minutes

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Naala Badu, our north building

Lower level 2

Free, no bookings required