MUSIC FOR ARCHITECTURE
DIALOGUES


"What Peter does is 'sound architecture'. I give Peter a project and ask him to react. Architecture is a narrative. This project is like a DNA experiment. There is a construction." Sir David Adjaye
Music for Architecture is an original concept by Peter Adjaye that hopes to draw exploratory dialogue, experimentation and shared aesthetics and mathematics between music and architecture. It seeks to re-establish this possibility for a relationship between the experience of a building and a contemporaneous musical journey.
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Dialogues is a limited edition vinyl only album showcasing the ongoing architectural and sonic collaborations between music composer Peter Adjaye and his brother, the award winning architect Sir David Adjaye OBE, consisting of a series of site specific architecture and sound collaborations developed since 2003. The two brothers are artistic collaborators and this study investigates the creative process they share, exploring the interconnection between the human experience of architectural structures and the musical journey. Each track corresponds to a piece of work by David, and traverses the intersection between music and architecture, sound and space. It spans from 'Reflections of a Golden Dream' the soundscape for the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford, South London, through to 'Three Views of Light' which forms part of the Genesis Pavilion in Miami, Florida.
"Architecture can also be expressed as a kind of movement (of light, of sound, people...) and 'Dialogues' is about how you can represent this fluidity, to bring it alive and create an immersive whole body experience." Peter Adjaye
‘Footprints in 3 suites’
Horizon Pavilion
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Locations: Albion Gallery, London; Casa Del Archiettectura, Rome; Haus de Kunst, Munich, Germany; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
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Type: Soundscape Installation
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Duration 4:20 mins
‘Reflections of a Golden Dream'
Stephen Lawrence Centre
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Locations: Deptford, London
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Type: Soundtrack
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Duration: 4:59 mins
‘PeaceSphere’
Nobel Peace Centre, Nobel Field
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Location: Oslo, Norway
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Type: Sound Design and Soundscape Installation
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Duration: 4.50 mins
‘Journey to the One’
Upper Rooms
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Locations: Victoria Miro Gallery and Tate Britain, London
Type: Soundtrack
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Duration: 4:40 mins
‘Darkest Light’
Elektra House
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Location: Stepney, London
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Type: Soundtrack
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Duration: 5:32 mins
‘Echoes’
Asymmetric Chamber
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Location: Manchester, UK; Mastrict, Holland; New York, USA
Type: Soundscape Installation
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Duration: 3:00 mins
‘Chromatic Fantasy’
Your Black Horizon Art Pavilion
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Locations: Island of Lopud, Croatia
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Type: Soundtrack
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Duration: 3:53 mins
'Patterns'
IDEA Stores
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Locations: Whitechapel and Chrisp Street, London
Type: Soundtrack
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Duration: 4:32 mins
‘Three Views of Light’
Genesis Pavilion
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Locations: Miami, Florida
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Type: Soundscape Installation
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Duration: 3:15 mins
‘Dirty House Music’
Dirty House
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Location: Shoreditch, London
Type: Soundtrack
Duration: 4:02 mins
The limited edition Album 'Dialogues', was released in July 2016, on Peter's record label MusicforArchitecture records, in association with The Vinyl Factory, it is presented as a double 180gm vinyl in a bespoke gatefold sleeve featuring a hand drawn image of a sonic journey by David Adjaye. The release also contains a full colour 15 page booklet, written by Peter.


