Muted Orchestra (Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky's 5th)

In "Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th", Samson Young invites the Flora Sinfonie Orchester in Cologne to perform Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony in its entirety. The orchestra, however, has been asked to ‘mute’ the musical notes, suppressing the pitched foreground layer of the composition, and bringing forth the sounds produced by physical actions in a performance – the musicians’ focused breath, the turning of pages, or the clicking noises of the instruments’ keys.