We are delighted to bring this project to England this year, marking the 250th anniversary of Turner's birthday. At the invitation of Brantwood, John Ruskin’s home and museum, the exhibition Drawing Along Turner’s Footsteps will take place there and a tour will present the entire cycle of pictures as a concert installation at various locations: The drawings complement, accompany and overlay the soundtrack as originals and as light images. The musical modules will be combined in order to react to the spatial design possibilities of the concert venues: Sometimes the images are chronologically, geographically, or sometimes according to visual or landscape typological possibilities.

The half-hour Graphite Scores is accompanied with second set: A contrasting work by Flora Karetka, using light sources inside the base flutes and a composition by Thomas Mejer for four piccolos.

About the musicians

For several years, the artist Monika Müller has been studying a work by William Turner in the north of England, which she researched on several trips there. These sketching walks have resulted in Ways of Turner, a cycle of 120 drawings, which is based on an unfinished commission by Turner that she brought to completion.

The saxophonist and composer, Thomas K.J. Mejer, for each of these drawings, created a unique soundworld for four bass flutes, entitled Graphite Scores.The young quartet Sepia Bass4 with Katrin Szamatulski, Rebecca Blau, Flora Karetka and Ksenija Franeta guarantees a fresh and cheeky interpretation.