John McCaughey: Musical Director

 

PATTERNS OF PLANTS

A cross-cultural ensemble of traditional Japanese and Baroque instruments featuring performers from Melbourne and beyond 

Curated by Andrew Byrne

Japanese post-minimalist composer Mamoru Fujieda has spent 26 years creating music based on the electrical activity of living plants. The result is his magnum opus, an ongoing series of compositions titled Patterns of Plants.

The latest collection of Patterns of Plants will be premiered in this concert by a special cross-cultural ensemble established by Astra for this project, led by virtuoso players Miyama McQueen-Tokita (koto) and Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba). Fujieda is taking an active role in the project and plans to travel from Japan to attend the premiere.

Three performances - Sat 2 Sept, 3:00 pm and 7.30 pm; Sun 3 Sept, 5 pm 

View larger map

Saturday 2 September, 3:00 pm

The Eleventh Hour Theatre, 170 Leicester St, Fitzroy VIC 3065

Book Online

   


Astra acknowledges and respects the sovereign peoples of the Kulin Nations on whose unceded land Astra is based. We extend our respects to their ancestors and elders past, present and emerging, and to all First Nations people.

© ASTRA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY (INC.) ABN 41 255 197 577

Join Our Mailing List

Get updates about our season program, subscriptions, publishing and more.

Supporting Astra

Become a Member or Donate

Quarter-Hour Concerts

Quarter-Hour Concerts

Short aural-video programs for online listening and viewing, assembled from the Astra Concerts archive from the 1950s to the present, and introducing new studio works from composers in the period of COVID-19.

Sound in Space: Astra and Architecture

Sound in Space: Astra and Architecture

Music always interacts with the architecture in which it is heard ...

Sound in Space documents with images and recordings how musical and architectural designs have formed an interactive partnership over three decades of Astra events.