A Block of Flats with a Thousand Windows (Part 6)

9th floor, 9A
A colourful character collects jars of circumstances and jars of absence. At a certain point, she drifts into a daydream about windscreen wipers, elephants, and Joseph Haydn, whom she encounters on the street. Hanna Kulenty’s music is just as bizarre and surreal as the text, forming a striking contrast with Haydn’s 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.