Name: Aitchison, Jim: Four Trajectories After John Hoyland
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Aitchison, Jim: Four Trajectories After John Hoyland

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Arrangement: for string quartet
Edition Type: score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-ja1ft1
Pages: 68
Date Published: 8th Jun 2023

Commissioned for the Instruments of Abstraction Project which occurred in the context of the John Hoyland exhibition at Tate St Ives, 20 May to September 2006. The music owes a debt to the generous insights of both John Hoyland and Curator Paul Moorhouse, art historian Simon Shaw-Miller and the artistry of the Kreutzer Quartet. Premiered by The Kreutzer Quartet at the Priory Church of Saint Bartholomew the Great.

The music responds to 4 paintings by John Hoyland shown at the Tate exhibition, ‘Trajectories of a Fallen Angel’:

Quas (1986), refers to a mythological fallen angel and the music responds to the various shapes within the plane, subjected to molten, larval dissolution.

Black Something (1990), seems to depict some mysterious, capricious tree-inhabiting creature, probably captured by the artist via his habit of taking distorted polaroids while in the Caribbean from which he often created his later abstractions.

Yellow Boat (1998), evokes a restless coastal environment of intense light and colour.

Elegy for Terry Frost (2002), was created as a searing, haunted lament for Hoyland’s artist friend, Terry Frost. Re the musical response to the painting, Martin Anderson wrote in Tempo Magazine: ‘Its interiorized passion reminded me of the slow movements of the late Beethoven quartets; we have a major piece on our hands.’

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