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Work Overview
Composed for string quartet, "The Flying Roof" looks at the relationship between music and architecture. In particular, the notion of translating architectural 'space' into 'musical' time. This string quartet is a musical interpretation of the five sectional drawings which make up the architectural design for the Busan Cinema Centre in South Korea, designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au. The work presents a musical rendering of the buildings' spatial design into a temporal musical experience. All five of the buildings' sectional drawings were gradually superimposed with each drawing representing a phase in the compositional process. This exercise allowed for clarity of spatial dimension, which then lended itself to be conceived in a musical context. The final result sees an alignment of all the five drawings producing a musical structure akin to the architect's intended concept.
Work Details
Year: 2015, this version: 2014
Instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, cello.
Duration: 10 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
First performance: at Castles in the Air: Music & Architecture (Basil Jones Orchestral Hall) on 17 Apr 2015
Performances of this work
17 Apr 2015: at Castles in the Air: Music & Architecture (Basil Jones Orchestral Hall).
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