Japan finds architecture: Each facet ordered and full of meaning.
What is architecture? O Zen and hosts, your message we beseech.
It is thoughtful living, necessity softened by history, intellect, and life.
Edward E. Kirkbride
In 1959 Barrister Milton Grundy was looking for a piece of land, somewhere to build a retreat, somewhere secluded and very special. He settled on a plot on the edge of a village in the English Cotswolds and set about creating one of the UK’s most striking and unique mid-century modern houses - The New House at Shipton-Under-Wychwood.
The three bedroomed weekend house was to be surrounded by water in the manner of the great gardens of Japan.
What Grundy, his partner the abstract-expressionist painter Viacheslav Atroshenko and architects Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield created, is an extraordinary fusion of east and west.
In this Encounter special John Escolme mixes memories of the house, with interviews from Milton Grundy, Paul Atroshenko (himself a significant abstract painter and brother of Viacheslav), Tristan Stout (the son of architect Roy), Suzanne Burn whose husband worked for the Stout and Litchfield practice, and Elain Harwood, Architectural Investigator for Historic England.
Images courtesy of Paul Atroshenko: www.atroshenko.com
Music and Musique-Concrete running order
The Delian Mode, Delia Derbyshire. BBC Radiophonic Music, BBC Records REC 25M.
Bird Medley, John Escolme. Private recording.
In An Autumn Garden, Toru Takemitsu. Music of our Time, Deutsche Grammophon 471 590-2.
Faust, Else Marie Pade. Electronic Works 1958-1995, Important Records IMPREC406.
I Hear The Water Dreaming, Toru Takemitsu. Music of our Time, Deutsche Grammophon 453 459-2.
Suomalaista Elektroakustista Musiikkia, Erkki Kurenniemi. Finnish Electro-Acoustic Music, Fennica Nova FENO 5.
Longplayer, Jem Finer, Artangel.
Nostalghia, Toru Takemitsu. Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto, Hayashi: Viola Concerto, Onyx (6) ONYX 4027.
I Hear The Water Dreaming, Toru Takemitsu. Music of our Time, Deutsche Grammophon 453 459-2.
Water Medley, John Escolme. Private recording.
The Tracy Lounge Piano, Barry Gray. Thunderbirds (1), Silva Screen Film CD 606.
Piano Sonata No.2 In F, K.280 - 1. Allegro assai, Mozart. Clara Haskil Mozart, Deutsche Grammophon 437 676-2.
House Construction, Easyform. Archive film, audio track.
Non Stop, John Malcolm. Various – Light Atmospheres, KPM Music - KPM 1245.
Water Medley-2, John Escolme (Shishi Odosho). Private recording.
The Delian Mode, Delia Derbyshire. BBC Radiophonic Music, BBC Records REC 25M.
Broadcasts on Resonance FM
20h00 UTC 25 Jan 2021
10h00 UTC 26 Jan 2021
FM: 104.4 MHz - London.
DAB: Block 9A - Greater London & South-East England.
Online: www.resonancefm.com - worldwide.
Encounter Special: A House in a Japanese Garden was produced by John Escolme
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