David Adjaye, in collaboration with his brother Peter Adjaye, is releasing a limited-edition vinyl album titled 'Dialoques'. Peter Adjaye soundtrack for David Adjaye's Stephen Lawrence Centre for his Music For Architecture project is now melted into the buildings and creating a series of experimental soundscapes composed by Peter Adjaye. 

''Every building has its own soundtrack'' say David Adjaye and his musician brother Peter, who are releasing a new vinyl record of their sonic collaborations. Dialoques is composed of 10-track compositions and are specially created for David Adjaye's buildings across the globe. 

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''I think people are overly obsessed with the visual in architecture,'' David told the Spaces. ''For me, at its most successful, [architecture is] not really about the visual markers, but the way it lifts people up. I think that’s a multi-sensorial experience.''

This album explores the creative process of the two brothers’ collaborations; each track corresponds to a piece of work by David Adjaye and traverses the intersection between music and architecture, between sound and space. It is a series of site specific architecture and sound collaborations that spans from Reflections of a Golden Dream, the soundscape for the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford, through to Three Views of Light which forms part of the Genesis Pavilion in Miami, Florida.

David Adjaye's Aysymmetric Chamber. Image © Lyndon Douglas

David Adjaye also designed an artwork for the record, which will be released by The Vinyl Factory and Music for Architecture on 15 July. The cover of the record features a tiny 'echo' sketch, inspired their first collaboration: an installation for David’s 2003 Asymmetric Chamber. 

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The project examines the creative relationship between David and Peter, and the profound inter-connection between the human experience of architectural structures and the musical journey. Throughout history, this connection has been explored and commented on, from medieval architects, through to Renaissance designers. Dialogues looks to re-establish and further this link between the two disciplines.

The composition feeds on the important sombre and historic narrative of the story of Stephen Lawrence. Therefore the intensity of the piece envelopes you in a dramatic score of melancholy and at the same time luxuriousness that is a reflection of the deep vibrancy of the colour shades of deep pinks, greens to purples. This inspirational building has large panes of glass that are adorned with unique and achingly beautiful patterns created by Chris Ofili that throw amazing dancing shadows throughout the space. You can hear the sound of the glass panes represented by the subtle percussion throughout. 

Tracklist:

Side A
‘Darkest Light’ - Elektra House
‘Reflections of a Golden Dream’- Stephen Lawrence Centre
‘Footprints in 3 suites’ - Horizon Pavilion

Side B
‘PeaceSphere’ - Nobel Peace Centre, Nobel Field
‘Patterns’- Ideas Stores

Side C
‘Journey to the One’ - Upper Rooms
‘Three Views of Light’ - Genesis Pavilion

Side D
‘Dirty House Music’ - Dirty House
‘Chromatic Fantasy’ – Your Black Horizon Art Pavilion
‘Echoes’ - Asymmetric Chamber

Dialogues: Music for Architecture, will be released by The Vinyl Factory and Music for Architecture on 15 July.

Top image: Peter Adjaye and David Adjaye via video screenshot. 

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