Allemande for 19

a cacophony of sound and color, a murmuration of movement— is set to music by Caroline Shaw and Roomful of Teeth, the Attaca Quartet, and Jon Hopkins.

This work is first and for most, an attempt to capture in movement what was heard in sound. It uses color as a means to communicate visually what is happening sonically in the score. The creation took Inspiration from Wassily Kandinsky’s book “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” in which the author makes the case to free Art from its traditional bonds to material reality and to awaken Spirituality, narrative, and meaning, by means of the abstract namely color, form, movement, and texture.

In Allemande for 19, we play with these materials, slipping in and out of order and chaos, form and freedom, swimming in a playground of sound that moves seamlessly from dissonant to harmonious chords.