Scrap Arts Music: Children of Metropolis

Children of Metropolis is an inventive, fast-paced percussion-based show.

Augmenting Scrap Arts Music’s visionary use of sculptural instruments, original compositions, and action-choreography, creative catalysts Gregory Kozak and Justine Murdy have also now produced a fantasy film that plays during live performances.

Children of Metropolis takes its inspiration from Fritz Lang’s iconic, sci-fi cult classic film, Metropolis (1927).

The new film was created using a similar vintage camera, and 1920s inspired film techniques, and is a collaboration with award-winning Canadian filmmaker Andrew Struthers. 

Fun-factoid: Andrew and his team constructed our own version of the city of Metropolis, creating a landscape of retro-futuristic skyscrapers using bits and pieces of Scrap Arts Music’s instruments! The ironic twist is that much of the scrap used in our instruments comes from the construction salvage of contemporary condo towers.