"Towering art installations, lighting and sculpture will be used to frame the stage, with local graffiti and stenciling artists creating a permanent art piece on the walls of surrounding buildings. "
From QMusic web site:
Brisbane city roads will be shut down on October 1 with a massive crowd expected to fill the site under the Turbot Street overpass to showcase some of Brisbane’s best original live music and visual artists as a part of the Brisbane Festival.
“Turbot City Limits” organiser Mark Sciberras said the collaboration is designed to highlight Brisbane’s emerging live musicians in an unusual setting.
With original music venues in Brisbane disappearing into office blocks and apartments, the event will close the carpark site underneath the Turbot Street overpass and the road between George and Roma Streets.
“Like the original live music scene in Brisbane, Turbot St is underutilised and treated as a ‘leftover’ space – the event will inject it with sound, light and visual images, enlivening the environment,” Mr Sciberras said.
But the location will not be the only unique aspect of the event; bringing together electronic music, melodic rock, jazz and funk, digital artists will project images taken of the city during day and night on surrounding buildings and streetscapes.
Towering art installations, lighting and sculpture will be used to frame the stage, with local graffiti and stenciling artists creating a permanent art piece on the walls of surrounding buildings.
“We are merging sound, light and art to provide a complete experience – it’s designed to stimulate all the senses,” Mr Sciberras said.
The six-band line up is headlined by Brisbane’s electronic three-piece outfit, Ponyloaf, who are joined by melodic rock foursome Evergreen Giant, and flutist Matthew Robbinson from “Sticks and Pipes”. The event also features the seven-piece hip hop and jazz, funk artists from Urban Theory, Mosaic’s five-piece melodic rock outfit and Ric’s beats fusion ‘DJ Freek 1C’.
“We chose to hold the concert under the Turbot street overpass to serve as a commentary on the trend for contemporary art and entertainment spaces dislocated by commercial development,” Mr Sciberras said.