About this event

What happens when you plug a blackboard into a computer and use it to make music? Come and experience Liza Bec’s original apocalyptic coming of age tale featuring a magical musical blackboard.

The End Times is a novel and an album in one, a theatrical soundscape with one foot in the supernatural and one foot in science.

Liza will use their self-built cyborg recorder, the roborecorder, featured in the Museum of Science and Industry, to control the sounds made by the blackboard from afar. Listen as haunting vocals, fragments of spoken word and soaring winds swoop over driving synths and polyrhythms.

Narrated by David Ryder Prangley (Rachel Stamp, Adam Ant).

Age Guidance: ages 7+

Audience Trigger Warnings: Sudden changes of volume and lighting.

This concert will support the following areas of the Model Music Curriculum:

– Musicianship: singing in unison, performing actions alongside song and moving in time to the beat

– Listening: a live performance of music from different traditions and composers, learning about the instruments as well as the stories, origins, history and social context of the music

This event is open to school groups and home educating families and has been designed with KS2 children in mind, although is suitable for all primary aged children.

This concert will include live BSL interpretation.

To book your seats please email musinc@middlesbrough.gov.uk with a booking form.

Find out more at https://musinc.org.uk/what-we-do/schools-programme/.

Access information

Toilets and facilities

For more details about our facilities and accessing the different spaces at Middlesbrough Town Hall please visit https://boxoffice.middlesbrough.gov.uk/middlesbrough-town-hall/your-visit-to-middlesbrough-town-hall/accessibility-at-middlesbrough-town-hall/

Pushchair policy

Due to Middlesbrough Town Hall’s fire regulation policies pushchairs, prams & car seats must be left in our dedicated ‘buggy parking’ zone on the carriageway and cannot be taken into any of the event spaces. Unfortunately, we cannot take responsibility for items left there, but we do our best to keep an eye on them.

Relaxed setting

All our schools events take place in a relaxed environment, and have the following features:

There’ll be lower volume levels throughout the event
Our spaces have consistent lighting, with low level auditorium lights on throughout
Our musicians and facilitators have relaxed attitude to noise and moving around the space
A quiet, chill out space will be available should you need a break
Our younger visitors can find a busy venue and loud musical activities quite overwhelming. A limited number of ear defenders are available from the Box Office – by the main entrance on Albert Road. See us as early as possible to secure a pair.