Coram Boy
Dreams of Isolation
Programme Note:
“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.” - Winnie-the-Pooh
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What does it mean to truly be alone?
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Is dreaming inner Isolation?
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Does Isolation take away a sense of time?
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How does one's Dreams change in Isolation?
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Can Isolation be freeing?
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Are we alone in our Dreams?
Night Music
Programme Note:
“I never created new theories in advance, I hated such ideas. I had, of course, a very definite feeling about certain direction to take…” - Bartók
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What is the music of the Night?
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How does the Night impact on my emotional state?
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How can the dark ever-evolving landscape be translated into “Night Music”?
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Is there a longing for sunrise?
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Are my feelings towards the Night more of an emotional impulse to my personal life?
Rothko Room
Programme Note:
"A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience” - Mark Rothko
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Can the experience of the Rothko Room at the Tate Modern be conveyed in music?
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What does the two fields of colour mean in music?
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Where does our perception of the paintings change in relation to distance?
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Is there a structural journey within the paintings?
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Why do these paintings in gulf ones sensory experience?
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How can the detailed brush strokes be translated into music?
Cave
Programme Note:
"Cave is a vast cluster of cuboid voids with irregular facets, angles one to another." - Anthony Gormley
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How do the 'Cuboid Voids' exist as a piece of music?
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Can the consistent use of metal in the cave be translated to the musical DNA of the composition?
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How can the music travel like the jouney through 'Cave'?
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Does the layout of the cave have merits to be used as a structure for a musical composition?
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Could the Piano itself relate to the materials used in 'Cave?
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What happenns musically when the 'irregular angles' collide?