Monday 9th June 2025, 1.30pm-2.30pm, free
What happens when you plug a blackboard into a computer and use it to make music? Come and experience Liza Bec’s original apocalyptic coming of age tale featuring a magical musical blackboard.
The End Times is a novel and an album in one, a theatrical soundscape with one foot in the supernatural and one foot in science.
Liza will use their self built cyborg recorder, the roborecorder, featured in the Museum of Science and Industry, to control the sounds made by the blackboard from afar. Listen as haunting vocals, fragments of spoken word and soaring winds swoop over driving synths and polyrhythms.
Narrated by David Ryder Prangley (Rachel Stamp, Adam Ant).
Age Guidance: ages 7+
Audience Trigger Warnings: Sudden changes of volume and lighting.
This concert will support the following areas of the Model Music Curriculum:
– Musicianship: singing in unison, performing actions alongside song and moving in time to the beat
– Listening: a live performance of music from different traditions and composers, learning about the instruments as well as the stories, origins, history and social context of the music
This event is open to school groups and home educating families and has been designed with KS2 children in mind, although is suitable for all primary aged children.
To book your seats please email musinc@middlesbrough.gov.uk with a booking form.
