Combining the Worlds of Music and Architecture.
Join the La Jolla Music Society for an evening of music and architecture. Echoes Of Life is Alice Sara Ott’s personal musical reflection on life, built around Chopin’s Preludes op.28 and interspersed with seven works by the likes of György Ligeti, Nino Rota, Chilly Gonzales, Tōru Takemitsu, Arvo Pärt, Francesco Tristano and Ott herself. Her collaboration with architect Hakan Demirel results in an album-length digital video installation accompanying the recital, taking the audience on their own virtual journey and creating a wholly original concert experience.
The collaboration with architect Hakan Demirel gives Echoes Of Life a physical dimension, a visual narrative. Hakan and his team of 19:4 architects have designed and created a digital world, inspired by an intense exchange of thoughts and ideas over the course of a year. The digital video installation that accompanies the entire length of the music is not a movie. There are no people in it, there is no action, no clear story line. The video shows architectural spaces that reflect the music. It evokes emotions and subtle references that hopefully will invite the audience to find their own stories, memories and echoes within those spaces.“
Post Concert Reception: Hosted by JWDA Architects and La Jolla Music Society, this event is exclusively for architects, designers and music lovers to convene over drinks, small bites and to meet the performer. When purchasing tickets, use promo code AIASD to secure your spot. Space is limited.
Hakan Demirel - Architect
Throughout his career Hakan Demirel (b. 1983, Malatya) has been awarded in national and international competitions and in 2011, was recognized by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, together with The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, among the most successful “Europe 40 Under 40” architects. In 2014, he was awarded in two categories the ‘Best Young Architect’ in Turkey as well as ‘The Golden Emerging Architects’, given to five architects around the world by Architecture+Design & CERA Awards. Hakan Demirel lived in New York between 2007 and 2008, upon his return he and Arif Suyabatmaz formed a partnership and established Suyabatmaz Demirel Architects, later coded as ‘19:4 Architects’, based in Istanbul and Zurich.
