Work: The Movement of Things

Conducted by Ilan Volkov, The Movement of Things, a new work  for orchestra and choir, conveys a sense that things are going nowhere – when in fact they are going some – where – just very slowly.

Composer and artist Miya Masaoka is interested in the nuances of speed, time and perception.

The Movement of Things, her new work for orchestra and choir, conveys a sense that things are going nowhere – when in fact they are going some – where – just very slowly. With the Glasgow Chamber choir. Based on alternative ideologies and aesthetics of speed, duration and perception, The Movement of Things inflects small changes of the movement of sound over time, and has extended divisi of nearly all the instruments in the orchestra and choir.