I Love This City and its Outlying Lands (2014/2020)


I Love This City and its Outlying Lands was written in response to the work of Fernand Legér and commissioned to be performed at a retrospective of his work at Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes. The piece translates the compositional qualities of Legér’s paintings into devices for making sound, taking account of the interaction of form and the atmosphere evoked by works much as Paysage Polychrome (1937). It has been decribed by Ears for Eyes as “sound as landscape, but one fogged or smogged to abstraction, a mental low-rise edgeland sprawl to meander thoughtfully through. A deceptively clean page that actually froths with subtle activity and deftly manipulated texture”.

I Love This City and its Outlying Lands was subsequently recorded and released by Mappa Editions with artwork by Andrea Šafaříková.