One of the buildings that I am looking at as part of my MA course is the Dry Bar building on Oldham street in Manchester . Given that it was once owned by New Order and is still associated with the musical scene in Manchester I was intrigued by the possibility of ( theoretically ) staging some sort of open-air roof top concert there , at least as a subject for a drawing.........and what better subject for a roof-top open-air performance than the opera ' Tosca ' ?? ...........
The drawing then developed as a sectional illustration highlighting the final dramatic scene , filtering the emotion of the performance through the pragmatics of architectural notation and the mundanity of day to day beaurocracy............so apart from the structural requirements necessary for acoustic separation and the support of the front wall , the heroine's fall is interpreted through health and safety issues , the calculations of terminal velocity and the ( inevitable ) media coverage of a ' tragic death ' at a public concert............hhhhhmmmmm
...Anyway , here is an illustration of the work in progress , titled ' Tosca - Live From Oldham Street ' , as yet unfinished and still needing a bit of editing.......and you can purchase the soundtrack from The Diskery on Spear street , or from the bookshop at The House of The Book Lover on Bloom Street, both in Manchester.
Still quite a bit of editing to do , but it's getting there slowly.
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