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Radio 3,12 Dec 2024,14 mins

SeriesVivaldi in a Warming World

Winter

The Essay

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The artist Nikita Gale shares why she considers the role of the season as a unit of measurement increasingly arbitrary – an idea she explored in her work Other Seasons. The piece combines light, live music, and atmospheric conditions. In the work, she deconstructs Vivaldi’s masterpiece to render the seasons obsolete, imploding the narrative sense of the Four Seasons, and pushing back against the representational nature of the original work. Presenter Kate Molleson Producer Robbie Armstrong A Whistledown Scotland production

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