Cloud music

Hear ethereal musical clusters, floating tones and swathes of spacious sound in this music series inspired by the symbolism of clouds.

Presented alongside the Magritte exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Cloud music sees SCO artists create a unique one-night only performance aligned to the art of Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.

Hosted in the Art Gallery’s atmospheric Kaldor Hall SCO’s response is an hour-long mise-en-espace designed and directed by Alexander Berlage which features the world premiere of new works by Jane Sheldon as well as the Australian premiere of excerpts from Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel. 

Program:

Thomas Adès: Three Berceuses from The Exterminating Angel (Australian premiere)
Jane Sheldon: Apollo & The Erotic Sublime (world premieres)
Pascal Dusapin: Wolken
Thomas Adès: Life Story