Beyond-the-wall

Program note

‘Beyond-the-wall’ for flute, violin, and bass trombone is inspired by a progressive artwork in a huge white room, in Louis Vuitton Foundation Museum, France.

Even though this black and white art only consists of writing people’s name, and visiting date on their height spot in anywhere on the white wall, I could see how it greatly works as an art piece, and it is fascinating me in several ways. This inspiration bears the shape of the piece with linear and timbre textures.

The idea of a (0-9) scale is adopted from the numbers of Height Chart of Men and Women in Different Countries by Disabled World, and it is a foundation of ten-tone matrix, resembles the black ink part of the art work as you see the photo below, with the only women’s heights. Suprisingly, the analysis makes little difference among the numbers. Also, common numbers of year of 2017 reconstructs as a set (0127=CC#DG) is a tag of each row in a form of prime, transposed and retrograde. The usage of Each row and gesture as musical material are picked by intervals of difference of the height.