Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi!

A night of dazzling audio-visual delight with art-pop trio Stealing Sheep and legendary electronic pioneers The Radiophonic Workshop is in store on Friday October 7 at the Science Museum.

As part of the Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination and Broadcast 100 series, this special event sees two musical groups join forces for a live performance of their soundtrack to the 1973 cult classic science fiction animation, ‘La Planète Sauvage’—recently released as part of Fire Records’ Imagined Score Series.

An evening of soaring, ethereal, ambient beauty, tribal beats and a live narration to René Laloux’s mesmerising psychedelic masterpiece is promised in the custom IMAX Theatre. The performance is preceded by an on-stage conversation with the Radiophonic Workshop and Stealing Sheep about their collaboration, and the enduring legacy of early electronica.

René Laloux’s mesmerising psychedelic sci-fi animated feature won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and remains a landmark European animation.

Based on Stefan Wul’s novel ‘Oms en Série’ [Oms by the dozen], Laloux’s breathtaking vision was released in France as ‘La Planète Sauvage’ (The Savage Planet) and immediately drew comparisons to Swift’s pioneering novel ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ and the film ‘Planet of the Apes’. It tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator (to be voiced live in the IMAX theatre by the Workshop’s Roger Limb), an Om called Terr, from infancy to adulthood.

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