Irina Bruckner

Aquarelle and The Orchestra is a response of artist to the Symphony Orchestra rehearsals and public performances. Artist’s role is to “document” process of music playing, focusing on interactivity with listener. Viewers/listeners of the rehearsals – groups of children and adults are to make an input in such “documentation”. “Documentation” process in aquarelle or/and ink is to be documented into video that is to be a part of visualization during orchestra’s annual performance “Fantastical Classical”, which is also recorded and combined into a streaming media on the artist’s and orchestra’s website.

With a need to promote the cultural value of classical music amongst the community this project will include some members of the community that are under circumstances are not engaged in the classical music and normally will never attend such performances. Project will also bring younger generation into the classical music appreciation and will enable new audience to discover a new ways of interaction with classical music, which took a “rigid” form of appreciation as dictated by society’s cliché on “how classical music has to be appreciated”.

This project was supported by a grant from the New south Wales Government - Arts NSW,
through a program administered by the National Association of the Visual Arts (NAVA).