Rhombus (Harding)
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An Ivor Award winner, Charlotte Harding’s music fuses many cross-genre influences, with Rhombus taking its inspiration from a trip to USA. As an introduction to the work, Charlotte writes;
“Rhombus was inspired by a visit to New York in January 2020 and in particular, a photograph I took looking up from the corner of a block to the skyscrapers above. It made me think about how New York is this endless jigsaw of geometric shapes – even the sky seems to be carved into squares, rectangles and rhombuses. However, for me, the spirit of New York, the people, the stories, the movements and history – it could never be contained into two dimensional boxes or buildings.
The musical material explores this antithesis with straight metallic lines and chords reacting and fusing with twisting, jazz-infused lines, riffs and fanfares.”
