In August CHROMA ran family workshops and performed at the award-winning Pallant House Gallery in Chichester as part of the Eye-Music exhibition.

The exhibition (now on tour) 'Eye-Music: Kandinsky, Klee and all that Jazz' is an exploration of the particular correspondence between visual art and music at the beginning of the 20th century. Kupka, Klee and others turned to Bach to provide a model for an abstract visual language, and Kandinsky felt an affinity between the new musical system Schönberg was developing and his own rejection of figurative art.

For more details see Pallant House website.

CHROMA has a history of projects involving fine artists, including composer Gabriel Jackson's response to Richard Long's textworks "In The Mendips", and a subsequent education project based on this work with six Norwich primary schools.

The ensemble also premièred "Memory of Colour" by Ed Hughes at the Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, 2004. This explored the parallels between the creative process of a visual artist and that of a composer, with Ed Hughes creating a site-specific composition in response to Teruyoshi Yoshida 's shimmering installation "Surface of the Lake" at Fabrica. The work, which echoes the ethereal, transient qualities of the installation (created in cotton and goldleaf) was premièred by CHROMA, with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, harp, marimba and live electronics.

“ CHROMA played with an unabashed and infectious passion... A fine example of the hidden gems the Festival can occasionally produce, a huge standing ovation came as no great surprise. More, please! ” This is Brighton and Hove- on "Memory of Colour"

Teruyoshi Yoshida's "Surface of the Lake" - photo by Doug Devany