"... like dissolving ancient amber and letting a trapped insect fly away." by Turgut Erçetin published on 2020-11-11T17:36:23Z Performed by Arditti Quartet and SWR Symphonieorchester on February 8, 2020 at ECLAT Festival. Conductor: Michael Wendeberg About the work: Named after a quotation from an essay written by Tim Rutherford-Johnson, in which he reflects on the research I had conducted at Hagia Sophia and the extent of its possibilities in unlocking the social memories of an architecture, “… like dissolving ancient amber and letting a trapped insect fly away” is a work composed for simultaneous string quartet and large orchestra that was premiered by the Arditti Quartet and the SWR Symphonieorchester in 2020 at the ECLAT Festival. The work is simultaneous in the sense that it consists of two interdependent works, namely a string quartet and an orchestral work, which can be performed together or as stand-alone works. As such, the string quartet is not conceived as a concertino group, nor is it regarded as an ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello; but rather as a medium based on its own specific collection of gestures and movements. “… like dissolving ancient amber…” is based on a hybrid structure modeled after the actual architecture of the Fatih Mosque and what I developed as the hypothetical architecture of the Church of the Holy Apostles. The intention behind this hybrid structure was not to simulate or to map out space, or to render a fixed point of observation for a specific narrative, but to develop a sonic-temporal architecture emerging from two spaces, as a form of resistance re-imagined through embodiment. Genre Arditti Quartet & SWR Sinfonieorchester Comment by Quínamo beautiful! bravo! 2020-11-12T11:34:20Z