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A musician DJ standing silhouetted at a mixing desk on a stage, with a projected image on the large screen behind them.
14 Jun

Forest Swords Live

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  • Music

Forest Swords, AKA composer/producer Matthew Barnes, is playing live in Australia for the first time in a decade. He’s unsheathing music that bleeds between muscular and bleak, haunting and euphoric. A set of expressive post-industrial landscapes integrated with HD imagery on ACMI’s massive cinema screen.

After spending the past few years working as an in-demand composer and sound designer, his latest album Bolted was recorded in a warehouse space in Barnes’ home city of Liverpool. This former vehicle and munitions factory became a gateway for him to explore new sounds using a combination of hardware, software and tape machines. Stuck in a rainy winter with a broken foot, he began to see shimmers of psychedelia in the industrial gloom. The world of Bolted is taught, with a sense of urgency. Deconstructed synths, distorted mallets and marimbas bounce off clattering beats, foggy vocals and lightly dancing wind instruments.

Get immersed in the glittering smog.

Hours

Date Times
Sat 14 Jun
  • 7.30pm - 9pm 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location

Cinema 1
ACMI
Fed Square, Flinders St
Melbourne 3000

Open in maps location for ACMI

Price and bookings

From $32 to $39

Adult / general $39
Student / concession $35
Book online for Forest Swords Live

Contact details

  • telephone number: 03 8663 2200
  • email address: info@acmi.net.au
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