The Ways of Turner: Graphite scores played by Sepia Bassflute Quartet at The Armitt

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On 5 October 2025
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We are delighted to bring this project to England this year, marking the 250th anniversary of Turners 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 presents 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. The research tours and sketch walks in several stages have resulted in the Ways of Turner, a cycle of 120 drawings, which is based on an unfinished Turner's unfinished commission to completion.

The saxophonist and composer Thomas K.J. Mejer created graphic scores especially for these drawings. Mejer created Graphite Scores, a modular piece consisting of 120 sounds for four bass flutes. The young quartet Sepia Bass4 with Katrin Szamatulski, Rebecca Blau, Flora Karetka and Ksenija Franeta once again guarantees a fresh and cheeky interpretation.