Mia Salsjö, Composition #4: The Towers, as part of The Quietude 2023, for the Peter McCallum Cancer Centre, designed by McBride Charles Ryan Architects. Image: Christian Cappuro.
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Event Details
govettbrewster.comPerformance Programme
Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound is enlivened by an evolving performance series across the exhibition’s duration spanning choreography, performance, sound installations and kinetic sculpture.
Mia Salsjö with musicians from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, A Score for the Len Lye Centre (2025)
Performances: 11:00am, 1:00pm, 2:30pm, Saturday 30 August | 20 minutes | Free
Sound installation: hourly on the hour, 6 September – 16 March 2026.
For the tenth anniversary, artist and composer Mia Salsjö has transposed the shimmering architectural contours of our art museum into a musical score. This unfolding new commission made possible by the Govett-Brewster Foundation can first be experienced as an expansive installation of graphic scores from May, a performance by musicians from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in August, a site-specific sound installation on display from September.
A Score for the Len Lye Centre is composed for thirteen stringed instruments, with a synthesiser playing samples of recordings Lye made in the 1960s of his kinetics performing. Lye correlated his sculptures with musical instruments, leaving their auditory traces in the Len Lye Foundation Archive for the then unknowable composers of the future to use.
Price
- Free
Date
- Sat 30 Aug
Time
- 11:00 am — 2:30 pm
Address
- Govett Brewster Art Gallery
- 42 Queen Street
- Ngāmotu New Plymouth
Performance Programme
Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound is enlivened by an evolving performance series across the exhibition’s duration spanning choreography, performance, sound installations and kinetic sculpture.
Mia Salsjö with musicians from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, A Score for the Len Lye Centre (2025)
Performances: 11:00am, 1:00pm, 2:30pm, Saturday 30 August | 20 minutes | Free
Sound installation: hourly on the hour, 6 September – 16 March 2026.
For the tenth anniversary, artist and composer Mia Salsjö has transposed the shimmering architectural contours of our art museum into a musical score. This unfolding new commission made possible by the Govett-Brewster Foundation can first be experienced as an expansive installation of graphic scores from May, a performance by musicians from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in August, a site-specific sound installation on display from September.
A Score for the Len Lye Centre is composed for thirteen stringed instruments, with a synthesiser playing samples of recordings Lye made in the 1960s of his kinetics performing. Lye correlated his sculptures with musical instruments, leaving their auditory traces in the Len Lye Foundation Archive for the then unknowable composers of the future to use.
