The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains Heads To Los Angeles in 2021
The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains has just announced that it is coming to America for the first time ever.
Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains was an exhibition on the history of the British rock band Pink Floyd, opening on 13 May 2017 (with a museum members’ preview on 12 May) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, and originally scheduled to run until 1 October. After high visitor numbers, the exhibition’s run was extended by two weeks, to 15 October 2017, Before it continued visiting the world with stops in Rome, Dortmund and Madrid and now scheduled for Los Angeles.
The exhibition’s title reflects the lyric “I’ve got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains”, from the song “Nobody Home”, on The Wall. The Exhibition has been highly promoted with media appearances by all three surviving band members (David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Roger Waters), and designer Aubrey Powell,
Treating the band’s history in chronological order, the exhibition ends with their 2005 reunion at Live 8, with footage of the band performing “Comfortably Numb”, using specially-remixed audio, delivered via AMBEO, a Sennheiser 3D audio technology, over 17 channels and 25 speakers, seven of which are subwoofers.
The exhibition will open at the Vogue Multicultural Museum in Los Angeles in 2021. Visit www.vmmla.com to join the email list for early access to pre-sale tickets when they become available.