TribLIVE: Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his violin concerto for colleague Franz Clement.
Duke Ellington wrote alto saxophone parts for Johnny Hodges.
Abby Aresty is writing a work to be played by a building.
Aresty calls herself a “sound composer” and is constructing a piece of music built on the sounds of nature and everyday life in Western Pennsylvania. It is being installed at the Center for Sustainable Landscapes at the Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens in Oakland as “a way of bringing nature into the building and to the staff,” says executive director Richard V. Piacentini. It will officially debut at the end of July.
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