{"id":10925,"date":"2022-03-24T13:35:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=10925"},"modified":"2022-03-24T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:39:04","slug":"earbox-art-and-music-in-dialogue-returns-to-studio-3-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2022\/03\/24\/earbox-art-and-music-in-dialogue-returns-to-studio-3-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"#EarBox: art and music in dialogue returns to Studio 3 Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a lengthy absence, it was good to be back in the richly-resonant acoustic of Studio 3 Gallery, the University’s art gallery, for a performance by the String Sinfonia<\/strong> yesterday.<\/p>\n

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The #EarBox<\/strong> <\/em>series of events bringing music and visual art together returned with a programme relating to Le piazze [In}visibili<\/em>, an exhibition of photographs documenting empty Italian\u00a0piazzi<\/em> during the first lockdown in 2020, when normally vibrant social spaces became suddenly silent.<\/p>\n

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The ensemble’s opening piece, the Chacony<\/em> by Purcell, took on a greater emotional significance as it rang out against the backdrop of the images, Purcell’s aching dissonances assuming more of an impact. Vivaldi’s Spring<\/em> picked up on the Italian connection, and in a wonderful moment of serendipity, birdsong in the spring afternoon outside the gallery could be heard in between the movements. Music Scholars Jeni Pang, Alice Nixon<\/strong> and Kammy Pike<\/strong> each took a movement.<\/p>\n

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Music Scholar Kammy Pike warming up with Vivaldi in front of a photograph of an empty St Mark’s, Venice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\" \"\"Matt Brown’s\u00a0Solitude at Dusk<\/em> had one or two ravishing chords, and the performance ended with the weighty\u00a0Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis<\/em>, whose main melody (When rising from the bed of death) somehow again took on different overtones in light of the photographic evidence of the impact of the pandemic which surrounded the audience.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to the students, and to its director, Floriane Peycelon. #Earbox will return to Studio 3 Gallery again in the future…<\/p>\n