To coincide with the opening of the exhibition Life inside an Image, Liquid Architecture and MUMA presents Māori musician and anthropologist Rob Thorne (of Ngati Tumutumu).

Thorne has brought his nearly thirty years’ experience in alternative rock, free noise, experimental bands and improvisational sound art to working with traditional Māori musical instruments (taonga pūoro). His debut album ‘Whäia te Märamatanga’ (Rattle Records, 2014) is a deeply felt and highly concentrated conversation between the past and the present – a musical passage of identity and connection. Extending traditional Māori flutes and horns made from stone, bone, shell and wood via techniques of experiment and alchemy, Rob creates a transcendent aural experience that touches the soul with timeless beauty.