Live Music and Film:Nosferatu
Apr
26
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Live Music and Film:Nosferatu

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Queensland Art Galley / Gallery of Modern Art

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Presented by Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art

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A shadowy, gothic masterpiece Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 1922 will screen with live musical score led by musician Robert Davidson.Nosferatu: does this word not sound like the deathbird calling your name at midnight? – so begins an on-screen warning at the beginning of this spine-chilling icon of horror cinema. One of the first cinematic representations of a vampire, FW Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu is a loose (and unauthorised) adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel ‘Dracula’. The film features the highly stylised, moody lighting of the German Expressionist movement including a vampire’s shadow that stalks across a blank white wall. Actor Max Schreck’s creature of the night ‘Count Orlok’ with his elongated fingers, bat-like ears and ghoulish countenance was so convincing that rumours sprung up that Schreck was an actual vampire hired by director Murnau. Featuring a young couple attempting to resist the magnetic power of the eerie count, Nosferatu went on to inspire many generations of vampire films

Robert Davidson will craft a unique soundscape for this Live Music & Film event.

Dr Davidson is a prolific composer, bassist, lecturer and founder and artistic director of Topology. He studied composition with Terry Riley in California before completing a composition PhD at the University of Queensland. He previously studied South Indian vocal music in Kerala, India. Davidson’s compositions are regularly performed, recorded and broadcast around the world, in venues including New York’s Lincoln Center, Sydney’s Opera House and London’s Barbican. All of Australia’s professional orchestras and many leading soloists and ensembles have commissioned and performed his works. With Topology he has released 14 albums, and has directed numerous artistic collaborations with creators of many varied cultural and stylistic backgrounds, including The Saints, Geoffrey Rush, Terry Riley, The Brodsky Quartet, Katie Noonan, Kate Miller-Heidke, Christine Anu, TaikOz, William Barton and many more. He has scored three documentary films: Memory Tree (Juniper/ABC), Joyride (Fifty Fifty/ABC, 2018), and Strong female lead (Northern Pictures/SBS, 2021).

Dr Davidson is the head of composition at the University of Queensland and his research is in artificial intelligence and music, music theory, collaboration, music literacy and music education.

Event Info

  • Date: Sunday, April 26, 2026
  • Venue: Queensland Art Galley / Gallery of Modern Art
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