THE FLAME ORGAN
ALASTAIR GALBRAITH

Two extraordinary performances at The Suter Theatre

Wednesday 29 September 2 pm and 7.30 pm

Tongues of blue flame flicker in and out of racks of tall glass tubes! Discs of red-hot gauze inside each tube cast crimson reflections and cause strange waves of sound, like medieval trumpets racing into the distance!

Funded by Smash Palace (a collaboration between Creative NZ and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology), Alastair Galbraith has led a team of glassblowers, physicists and engineers on a quest to develop a new musical instrument - the Flame Organ. Dozens of bunsen burners are mechanically linked to an antique piano keyboard with pulleys and fishing line!  More than three times the size of Georges Frederic Kastner's Pyrophone of 1869!!

Come along and hear about the ups and downs of instrument creation.Learn about thermoacoustics and its central role in Rocket Science and "Green"  Technology!!

Hear Alastair perform "Dream Songs for Flame Organ" IN THE DARK!! Play A Few Chords Yourself!!!

Tickets available from Wednesday 1 September.

$10 Friends of The Suter
$6 Children 
$12  Adults 


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THANKS

For supporting THE SUTER FRIENDS WINTER LECTURE SERIES 2010