A Block of Flats with a Thousand Windows (Part 3)

8th floor, 8F
An eccentric widow has just lost her wife. You witness her conversation with the funeral director at her home. Composer Frieda Gustavs moves in the twilight zone between classical and pop. For this piece, she has incorporated, among other things, Haydn CD recordings by the Chaos String Quartet into her electronic music.

Step into A Block of Flats with a Thousand Windows, a six-part theatrical miniseries in which the walls vibrate with music, imagination, and human stories. The inventive composer and creative mind Primo Ish-Hurwitz (2001) breathes new life into Joseph Haydn’s six iconic Op. 20 string quartets—by connecting them with brand-new compositions by six leading Dutch composers of today. This is achieved in part through the sampling of old and new material—unusual in classical music, but common practice in genres such as hip-hop.

The Chaos String Quartet, together with actress Ariane Schluter and writer Joke van Leeuwen, weaves a compelling world in which past and present merge. Across six episodes, a timeless story unfolds, where sound and language, performance and emotion, meet and reinforce one another.