Cover image: What does the present moment with all its
fragmentation, confusion and constriction, look/soundlike when seen/heard from above?

S T U D I O W I L L D U T TA
studiowilldutta.art“ I so enjoyed the performance...
it sounded beautiful ”
Sarah Martin
Head of Exhibitions at Turner Contemporary

Programme of Activities

26 September, 7.30PM
Life Drawing at The Faversham Assembly Rooms, Faversham
Rosalind Ventris (viola) / Will Dutta (piano)
British sculptor and artist Joseph Paxton led a life drawing class from an open rehearsal.

What does the present moment with all its fragmentation, confusion andconstriction, look/sound like when seen/heard from above?
In the autumn of 2019, we presented a variety of answers to this question
through sound, film, discussion and drawing. One of the central ideas in The
20/19 Project was the transformational shift in culture over the last one
hundred years through the lens of music and in particular, the viola.
The headline shows at Westgate Hall, a former drill hall in Canterbury built in
the early twentieth century, featured three outstanding viola sonatas of 1919
by composers Rebecca Clarke, Paul Hindemith and Ernest Bloch, and at
Turner Contemporary in Margate, three UK premieres by some of the mostpersuasive and individual composers of our time, Andrew Norman, Anna
Thorvaldsdottir, and Scott Wollschleger. To knit these pieces together wecommissioned a new audio-visual work by Ana Quiroga and Pedro Maia,
using archive film and field recordings of East Kent.

16 October, 7.30PM
Made in Transition, Part 1 at Westgate Hall, Canterbury
Rosalind Ventris (viola) / Will Dutta (piano)
A unique performance installation revealed competing emotions in the era-defining
viola sonatas of Clarke, Hindemith, and Bloch. These were framed by the world
premiere of three new audio-visual preludes by Ana Quiroga and Pedro Maia.
14 November, 7.30PM
Studio Talk at St Mary’s Art Centre, Sandwich
Our in-conversation event explored the cultural, social and economic shifts facing
the UK with guest speaker, former CIO at Credit Suisse and author of The Levelling,
Michael O’Sullivan.
15 November, 6PM
Apart and Together at Daphne Oram Creative Arts Building,Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury
The new building was occupied in a maze of performance, discussion and student
groups reimagining accepted musical narratives.
21 November, 7.30PM
Creative Director’s Talk at The Salutation, Sandwich
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti introduced the new viola sonatas with musical excerpts
and personal insights into the commissioning process.

28 November, 7.30PM
Made in Transition, Part 2 at Turner Contemporary, Margate
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti (viola) / Zeynep Özsuca (piano)
Audiences dived into three new viola sonatas by Norman, Thorvaldsdottir, andWollschleger to find their way among fragments, fragile echoes and broken
gestures. Audio-visual preludes by Quiroga/Maia marked the walls.

Statistics

16 creatives

7 events

4 commissions

1 monograph“ Perfectly meticulously curated!!.”Highlights
We created a new hand-finished 32-page monograph to explore the themesof The 20/19 Project. The book features new essays by Will Dutta, Anne
Leilehua Lanzilotti and Daphne Gerling, composer notes, and photography ofEast Kent. We printed a limited edition run of 100 copies.
We commissioned the artistic creation of a new audio-visual work, entitledThree Moments (dur.9’), featuring music and field recordings by Ana Quirogaand image and film manipulations by Pedro Maia. The archive film footage
was a result of a public call in East Kent for which we received over fifteen
reels of 8mm and 16mm film from the 1930s and 1970s. We also negotiatedthe rights to use Aspect by the critically acclaimed filmmaker, Emily Richardson,which was shot in an ancient woodland in Kent in 2004. The resulting work isin three movements and focuses on each decade of archive film.

“ I was drawn to the event as a creative opportunity toreflect on and capture the complexity of the present
moment. I wasn’t disappointed. I’m leaving full ofreflection and still processing the experience.
Prompts and guidance gave additional inspiration andthe challenge of being fully in the moment and multisensory it was inspiring. Thanks. ”
LouiseAudience Feedback“ Emotionally powerful intellectually rich...
just good people! It was a joy to meet you. ”“ Marvellous music and tuition!
Very inspiring and freeing. ”

Anne“ Fantastic insight of movement and life
drawing. First for me and I’m amazed.
Well Done! ”
Laura Swinerd“ I very much enjoyed it & interesting to goto a talk about something very different &thought provoking. ”
Wonderful evening - great space to capture and be
immersed in the present moment. Thanks!
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Sarah-JanePartner Learning

Russell Warren-Fisher describes his creative approach indesigning the visual identity for The 20/19 Project:‘ The meeting point of the two lines represent the current moment
but when see from above we are privy to a greater understandingof what this intersection looks like’.

One of our partners, the RSA (Royal Society forthe encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce),
shared their insights:‘ partnering on a unique event helped us engage ourlocal stakeholders in a creative way and expose them tonew ideas, a key part of our aim… [and] helped deepen
our understanding of the local audiences’.

For the artistic creators involved this activity provided valuable learning.
The 20/19 Project initiator, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, reflects:
it helped me work on a much larger scale creatively… in addition,
the community involvement through the other events helped theproject feel like it was connected to a greater network. It hasinfluenced my own work as a curator thinking about how I might
move forward with such projects’.

For Ana Quiroga this opportunity ‘helped me focus on
my practice and explore more my signature sound. It
has given me more visibility, especially in other music
and art fields’.

“ Beautiful contemporary music.
Lyrical and accessible.
Unusual.
Thank you ”

About Us

ST U D IWillO W
I L L D U T TAStudioDutta

Studio Will Dutta is the creative everything of Will Dutta: a paradeof artistic invention, playback and research.
Since its founding in 2007, we have presented over two hundred
performances, commissioned radical new work and played a vitalrole in establishing the independent classical scene in the UK.

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Striking projects include Gabriel Prokofiev’s Concerto for Turntablesand Orchestra (2006–7)—this now iconic work has received overseventy performances worldwide since we gave the premiere at
Scala in London, including televised broadcasts at the BBC Proms
in 2011 and 2016, and an award-winning album featuring DJ Yodaand Heritage Orchestra (Nonclassical, 2009); Tim Exile’s Bardo EPfor Flow Machine and Orchestra; and the concert production of
Nick Lloyd-Webber and James D. Reid’s musical, The Little Prince(2016), which premiered at the Abu Dhabi Festival with awardwinning actor Hugh Grant.
Other credits: London Winter Concert (Southbank Centre, 2019),
The 20/19 Project (Turner Contemporary, 2019), bloom (UK AlbumTour, 2017), Made in Transition (Tate Britain, 2014), Music andMoney (Mansion House, 2012), Four: Zero (De La Warr Pavilion,2011–12), Notation and Interpretation (ICA, 2011), Songs for a
Better Future (Tate Modern/Drawing Room, 2010), Beyond Scale(Tate Britain, 2009), Blank Canvas (Village Underground, 2007–2013).

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1. bloom LIVE, ICA by Michael R Williams, 2017 © Michael R Williams
2. Reeps One, Tiuna el Fuerte by British Council, 2013 © British Council
3. Songs for a Better Future by Matei Bejenaru, 2010 © Matei Bejenaru
4. Tim Exile, Village Underground by Howard Melnyczuk, 2013 © Howard Melnyczuk
5. DJ Yoda and Heritage Orchestra by Dan Stevens, 2007 © Dan Stevens
6. Late at Tate by PRS Foundation, 2015 © PRS Foundation
7. Blank Canvas, Village Underground by Howard Melnyczuk, 2013 © Howard Melnyczuk
8. Rosalind Ventris at Lenhall Farm by Lemonade Pictures, 2019 © Lemonade Pictures

Cover image: What does the present moment with all its
fragmentation, confusion and constriction, look/soundlike when seen/heard from above?

S T U D I O W I L L D U T TA
studiowilldutta.art“ I so enjoyed the performance...
it sounded beautiful ”
Sarah Martin
Head of Exhibitions at Turner Contemporary