Music and Art

How does one define the relationship between music and art? How might a work of visual art be re-imagined as music? NMSW (New Music South West) has invited composers to create new music in response to the work of contemporary artists for a concert exploring the interface between music and art. Geoff Poole and Jean-Paul Metzger will be composing pieces inspired by Zhang Enli’s ‘Four Seasons’ exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, while a collaboration between composer Julian Leeks and artist Fiona Robinson will present a developing conversation between the two art forms, as each creates a response to the other’s work. The concert will also see the premieres of new work by two outstanding postgraduate composition students, written in response to work in the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art and two further responses to Enli’s work, will be written by two of the most promising composers studying A’Level music at local schools. The programme will also feature music by György Ligeti and Hildur Guðnadóttir and will be performed by the Bristol Ensemble String Quartet in the Zhang Enli exhibtion, ‘Four Seasons’. Bookings