ACMI, House House and Orchestra Victoria present world premiere live concert performance of Untitled Goose Game

ACMI, House House and Orchestra Victoria present world premiere live concert performance of Untitled Goose Game

ACMI, House House and Orchestra Victoria are proud to present Untitled Goose Game Live, featuring the award-winning Melbourne-made videogame projected onto ACMI’s cinema screen, alongside a live accompaniment by musicians from Orchestra Victoria.

Audiences will be entertained as a horrible goose creates chaos, calamity and hilarity in a small village, accompanied by a new arrangement of Dan Golding's soundtrack created exclusively for this event, featuring works by classical French composer Claude Debussy. During the performance, the musicians will react live to the actions of the player, making for a one-of-a-kind experience for fans of the hit videogame.

ACMI Acting Director and CEO Graham Jephcott said: “We’re so excited that adults and children alike will be able to experience this trailblazing performance of Untitled Goose Game Live at ACMI with musicians from Orchestra Victoria performing Dan Golding’s fantastic new score. To bring House House’s iconic Melbourne-made videogame to our cinema screens with a live music accompaniment will be an unmissable experience for fans of this game.”

Orchestra Victoria Executive Director Sara Pheasant said: “We’re delighted to be partnering with ACMI to showcase some of the brilliant talent in Melbourne’s game industry. In Untitled Goose Game Dan Golding uses responsive sound design to create moments of of serendipity and humour for the player. We look forward to lifting the lid on how this innovative scoring method works with our musicians for live audiences at ACMI.”

Composer Dan Golding said: “When we created the music for Untitled Goose Game, we created a system to simulate what it would be like to have a live musician sitting by the side of the player, providing a live soundtrack. Now, with Orchestra Victoria and ACMI, we no longer have to simulate it – we have the real thing. I’m incredibly excited to see this world-first performance in Melbourne.”

Following each of the 3.30pm and 6.00pm Friday 8 July performances, visitors can explore sound design and music in videogames via talks that will include advice for students passionate about this artform.

The 11am Saturday 9 July session also features a relaxed performance designed for visitors with ASD and sensory sensitivities.

Untitled Goose Game Live will be performed at ACMI on Friday 8 & Saturday 9 July 2022. Tickets are on sale now at acmi.net.au

Untitled Goose Game Live
ACMI, Fed Square
Friday 8 July, 3.30pm
Performance + talk (careers in game and music)
Full $25, ACMI member $21, child $18

Friday 8 July, 6.00pm
Performance + talk (music and sound design in games)
Full $25, ACMI member $21, child $18

Saturday 9 July, 11.00am
Relaxed visit
Full $20, ACMI member $16, child $12

Saturday 9 July, 1.00pm
Performance only
Full $20, ACMI member $16, child $12

NOTES TO EDITORS:

ABOUT ACMI:
ACMI is Australia’s national museum of screen culture. The museum reopened in February 2021 after a two-year, $40 million redevelopment – an architectural, programmatic and technological transformation. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art with ACMI. The museum celebrates the wonder and power of the world’s most democratic artform – fostering the next generation of makers, players and watchers. ACMI’s vibrant calendar of exhibitions, screenings, commissions, festivals, and industry and education programs explore the stories, technologies and artists that create our shared screen culture. More at acmi.net.au

ABOUT UNTITLED GOOSE GAME:
Untitled Goose Game is an award-winning Melbourne-made puzzle videogame released in 2019 by local developers House House. The game sold over a million copies worldwide by the end of 2019 and has gained recognition both in Australia and overseas, including composer Dan Golding’s nomination for Best Original Soundtrack at the 2020 ARIA Music Awards.

ABOUT DAN GOLDING:
Associate Professor Dan Golding is deputy chair of media and communications at Swinburne University of Technology and the host of Screen Sounds on ABC Classic. As well as Untitled Goose Game, Dan’s composing includes the soundtracks for Push Me Pull You (2016) and the Frog Detective series, for which his score for The Haunted Island (2018) won the APRA-AMCOS Australian Game Developer award for Best Music. Dan recently composed the theme for the ABC’s flagship podcast, ABC News Daily, as well as creating Swinburne’s next_gen now audio branding. He is also the author of Star Wars After Lucas (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), and with Leena van Deventer the co-author of Game Changers (Affirm Press, 2016). In 2018 he co-hosted the series What Is Music for ABC iView and triple j.

ABOUT ORCHESTRA VICTORIA:
Orchestra Victoria is a world-class opera and ballet orchestra. With a rich history performing with opera, dance and musical theatre companies, Orchestra Victoria is dynamic and versatile, with expertise in an incredible breadth of repertoire from contemporary to classical. The performance partner of The Australian Ballet, Opera Australia and Victorian Opera, the company is committed to true collaboration, breathing life into performance on and off the stage and screen.