Joseph Wright‘s 1768 painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump* depicts a white cuckoo being suffocated in a glass vacuum. Onlookers are alternately transfixed, frightened and apprehensive — the legacy left for a trio of young Londoners who create music which is captivating and at times disconcerting in its brevity and primal [...]

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