The Museum

Before its premiere in 2026, you are invited to experience a special preview of The Museum, a major new work by composer Steven Takasugi, created with Speak Percussion.

This work-in-development showing offers a glimpse into Takasugi’s ambitious evening-length piece for three percussionists and electronics. Drawing on sound archives from Grainger Museum and Speak Percussion, and the collaborating artists’ personal collections, The Museum brings to light the quirky and the idiosyncratic fascinations of musicians: Percy Grainger, Speak Percussion and percussionists more generally.

Commissioned for Speak Percussion’s 25th anniversary and developed in partnership with the Grainger Museum, the project interweaves personal and institutional histories to question how we collect, preserve, and pass on stories.