Wordless Music Returns with VOYAGE OF TIME in Melbourne and GAS in Brooklyn

On Friday, October 6, Wordless Music returns to Melbourne as part of the 2017 Melbourne Festival, with the world premiere of Terrence Malick's VOYAGE OF TIME: the epic documentary project three decades in the making that sees Malick turning attention to the grandest of stories. From the collision of galaxies and explosions of stars to the churning primordial soup from which springs life, all the way to the birth of humanity and our rapid proliferation around the globe, VOYAGE OF TIME is a dizzying look across the ages that could only be made by Malick.

With narration by Cate Blanchett, and music by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Wagner, Mahler, and Poulenc, performed by over 100 members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, along with our friends Tyondai Braxton and Ricardo Romaneiro on electronics, VOYAGE OF TIME will be an experience in pure awe. A very small number of tickets are still available on the Melbourne Festival web site.

Just announced: GAS (Wolfgang Voight) live in December
On Tuesday, December 19, Wordless Music presents the long-awaited return of GAS: the foundational ambient techno project of producer and Kompakt founder Wolfgang Voight. In honor of the GAS project's 20th anniversary, and the release of his first album (Narkopop) in 17 years, Voight will perform a tiny number of shows for the first time in the U.S. since 2009. This special event will take place at the new and independent PopGun-hosted venue in Bushwick, Elsewhere. Tickets for GAS are now on sale.

Wordless Music
2017-18 Season

10.06.2017 Terrence Malick's VOYAGE OF TIME (Melbourne Festival 2017)
11.16.2017 Velvet Underground & Nico with John Cale (BAM 2017 Next Wave Festival)
11.17.2017 Velvet Underground & Nico with John Cale (BAM 2017 Next Wave Festival)
11.18.2017 John Cale's 75th Birthday Celebration (BAM 2017 Next Wave Festival)
12.19.2017 GAS (Wolfgang Voight) (Elsewhere, Brooklyn)
02.01.2018 Birkin Gainsbourg: The Symphonic (Carnegie Hall)

Friday, October 6, 2017
Terrence Malick: VOYAGE OF TIME (screening + live score)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Choir
Jayce Ogren, conductor
Tyondai Braxton, electronics
Ricardo Romaneiro, electronics
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Festival 2017
7pm doors / 7:30pm show / tickets now on sale

November 16-17, 2017
The Velvet Underground & Nico (50th anniversary celebration)
John Cale
Wordless Music Orchestra
BAM 2017 Next Wave Festival
Howard Gilman Opera House
7:30pm doors / 8pm show / tickets now on sale

Saturday, November 18, 2017
John Cale's 75th Birthday Celebration
Wordless Music Orchestra
BAM 2017 Next Wave Festival
Howard Gilman Opera House
7:30pm doors / 8pm show / tickets now on sale

Tuesday, December 19, 2017
GAS (Wolfgang Voight) Live
Elsewhere (Bushwick)
8pm doors / 16+ / tickets now on sale

Thursday, February 1, 2018
Birkin Gainsbourg: The Symphonic
Jane Birkin + Wordless Music Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
7pm doors / 8pm show / all-ages / tickets now on sale

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