Chroma I-XXIII (2021)
(for 12 - 16 performers)

Chroma's duration and length is necessarily flexible, please contact the composer. The music boxes and record players can be hired from the composer via her office at Littlebit (website https://www.rebeccasaunders.net/).

Subsequent versions of chroma:

chroma I

Commissioned by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants for Tate Modern
16-18 June 2003, Tate Modern London, by London Music Projects

chroma II

October 2003, Musée de la Musique, Cité de la Musique Paris by Ensemble Intercontemporain

chroma III

March 2005, Museum of Art and History Geneva, Festival Archipel, by Ensemble Contrechamps

chroma IV

February 2006, Nybrokajen 11 Stockholm, Stockholm New Music by the Curious Music Players

chroma V

March 2006, Musée des Beaux Arts Lyon, Biennale Musiques en Scène Lyon by Ensemble Contrechamps

chroma VI

November 2006, Philharmonie Luxembourg, by Ensemble Contrechamps

chroma VII

March 2007, Malmö Castle, Festival Connect, by the Curious Chamber Players

chroma VIII

Feburary 2008, Paul Klee Zentrum Bern, by Ensemble Contrechamps

chroma IX

April 2008, Märkisches Museum, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik 2008, by Ensemble Contrechamps

chroma Xa

September 2008, Hofkirche Innsbruck, Klangspuren Festival Schwaz by Ensemble Contrechamps

chroma Xb

September 2008, Mart Museum Rovereto, Transart Festival, by Ensemble Contrechamps

chroma XI

December 2008, Studio Version, Studio WDR Kölner Philharmonie by Ensemble Contrechamps

chroma XII

June 2010, Herrenhausen Hanover, Herrenhausen Festival, by Ensemble Musikfabrik

chroma XIII

October 2010, Museum of Art and History Geneva, by Ensemble Contrechamps

chroma XIV

November 2010, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Fesitval, by Ensemble Musikfabrik

chroma XV

March 2011, Cafe Moskau Maerzmusik Berlin

chroma XVI

May 2011, Festival les Amplitudes, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Usine électrique

chroma XVII

2012, CAC Vilnius

chroma XVIII

March 2013 Salzburg KarlBöhmSaal Schauspielhaus

chroma XIX

September 2013 Bonn Kunst Museum, Beethoven Fest

chroma XX

May 2017 Ghent Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, Ensemble SPECTRA and director Filip Rathé, Festival “Ear to the Ground”

chroma XXI

October 2021 Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchâtel, direction and spatialisation by Gemma Ragués Pujol & Ali Latif Shushtari, Ensemble NEC-Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain and students of the Hochschule der Künste Bern

chroma XXII

October 2021« Cathédrale souterraine » Berne, direction and spatialisation by Gemma Ragués Pujol & Ali Latif Shushtari, Ensemble NEC-Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain and students of the Hochschule der Künste Bern