Free Audacious Light Show to Dazzle Melbourne
21-Sep-2011WORLD PREMIERE
PRESENTED BY MELBOURNE FESTIVAL, THE ELECTRIC CANVAS AND RED ENERGYCACOPHONY: THE ART OF CONFLICT (Australia)
The illuminating creativity of The Electric Canvas will transform the Arts Centre into an incandescent riot of light, colour and movement – an eye-catching centrepiece for this year’s Festival precinct.
From across the Yarra River it catches your eye – flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre. But follow the lights across Princes Bridge and you’ll soon discover the main event: the opposing walls of Hamer Hall and the State Theatre turned from banal concrete into a fantastical playground of dancing, swirling and seemingly competing projections. At times random, at times coalescing into shapes of great beauty, there’s a story being told here, if you’d care to sit down and watch for a while.
Welcome to
Cacophony, the brand new, captivating and typically audacious light show from Australian projection art pioneers, The Electric Canvas. Taking one of Melbourne’s most recognisable public spaces and constructing a hypnotic and dazzling light show around the individual shapes and contours of its architecture, this is public art at its most wondrous and inclusive.
The Electric Canvas has an impressive track record of creating breathtaking works around 
the world, developing awe-inspiring displays including the audience projections at the Vancouver Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony and the launch of Malaysia’s Petronas Towers.
Its Northern Lights exhibit at Adelaide Festival in 2008 was a sensation, and so beloved it was reworked and restaged two years later due to popular demand. More recently, their illuminations transformed Sydney into a glorious vision for Vivid 2011, using 73kg projectors and cutting edge 2D and 3D visual software, different images were displayed across the city on Custom House, the Sydney Opera House and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Completely free and showing every night from dusk until late, Cacophony will light up the heart of the 2011 Melbourne Festival.
Venue: The Arts Centre, Exterior
Dates: Thu 6 – Sat 22 OctDuration: Dusk - late
Tickets: Free
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