If you play a string instrument, now may be your opportunity to show your skills. Austin band Mother Falcon is on the hunt for 100 local string players.

The players would accompany the ensemble band in its upcoming show at the Seaholm Power Plant on April 20 for the Fusebox Festival. The show will be free to the public.

What’s Mother Falcon like? Think a more classically refined Ra Ra Riot, or if Jens Lekman threw a cathartic pity party with refreshments and a backing orchestra. Boasting about having upwards of 10 or more band members at once, the band’s musical performances blossom with orchestral build-ups, chamber pop melodies and feathery jauntiness that resonates with weary sentiment. Mother Falcon’s latest theatrical endeavor hopes to retain these defining characteristics while exploring new ones.

This experiment is a highly detailed set. Delving into a realm rich in musical textures, sounds, the effects of unison and eccentricity in arrangement, the band is constructing a show that flows like one stunning piece.

“You might hear one portion of our songs and then the rest 10 minutes later,” said Maurice Chammah, a Mother Falcon violinist. “We’re trying to have a lot of dramatic moments,”

Auditioning 100 string players seems like a daunting feat. However, Mother Falcon members believe they have completely annihilated that fear by refusing to acknowledge it. There is no audition process. Instead, the band is relying on the vastness of the proposed group to accommodate a large range of players on various skill levels.

The band is also trying to compose music that should prove accessible for amateur musicians. The search is reportedly going well, though the band is still searching for a high school program to bring out a “large chunk of students.”

The performance will be at Seaholm Power Plant, a large venue with resonant acoustics. Keeping these cavernous characteristics in mind, Mother Falcon view the venue not as a vacuum of sound, but an opportunity for unheard of fullness.

“The arrangements will really be about making the space fill with rich sounds and simple, stark textures, rather than, for example, trying to do the songs the same way we would in a crowded, small room,” Chammah said.

This idea originated from Graham Reynolds, a local composer and mentor to the band who is involved with the organization of Fusebox Festival. Mother Falcon ran with the grand project in hopes to take the audience on an unpredictable adventure. This unknowing sense of wanderlust is exactly what Chammah said he wants people to show up for.

“The point is to explore what can be done with such a big, striking medium,” Chammah said. “We hope the audience wants to go on that ride with us.”