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- Emily Howard
Antisphere (2019)
- Peters Edition Limited (World)
Commissioned by the Barbican Centre for Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra and first performed by them at the Barbican Centre on 14th September 2019.
- 3(III:pic).3(III:ca).3(III:bcl).3(III:cbn)/4.3.2+btbn.1/timp.5perc/str(14.12.10.8.6)
- 18 min
- English
Programme Note
Antisphere (2019) is an 18’ largescale orchestral work that takes the negatively curved antisphere – an abstract shape, the opposite of a sphere and impossible to realise – as its imaginative cornerstone, a lens through which to shape sound. In negatively curved space, properties shrink and stretch, and I was excited by the idea that this would influence the music in as many ways as I could imagine. In Antisphere, harmonies are squashed, estranged, and rhythms stretch to infinity in music that is everywhere curving away.
Commissioned by the Barbican Centre for Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, who gave the world premiere on 14th September 2019, Antisphere is one in a series of geometry-inspired works and forms an orchestral triptych with Torus (2016) and sphere (2017).
Emily Howard, August 2023