My dad lives in the Barbican Centre in London, it's the largest Performing Arts centre in Europe and always has various concerts/operas/plays/exhibits on. The one I went to see over easter was - as well as being relevant to our project this term - easily the best I've seen so far, the promo video barely does it justice.
It was in a big, white exhibition hall - a huge space - completely empty apart from patches of grass on the floor and about fifteen electric guitars and basses stood horizontally, hooked up to PA systems, accompanied by at least 30 or 40 little birds (don't know what they were) that settled into the hall as their home. Without encouragement, they would collect twigs from the corner of the room and begin building nests on the guitars or feeding off them, and as they did, they'd unintentionally play the strings, creating music/noise. The other part of the charm was that the birds would fly amoungst you from guitar to guitar, occasionally landing on your shoulder or bag, or on your head...
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