Li Sze Shum

Music Box of Solace: Nocturnes of the Aged Voice

I reach for
The door
To a peaceful place
The voice
That makes me stay
The last lights of sun
That slowly fades
I reach for  
The olden days
Before the last note fades

Music box of solace creates a synthesis of Nocturnes and aged voice, providing an active music-making sanctuary for the musicians and the elderly.

The architecture encapsulates the phenomenological experience of music-listening through a rhythmic sequence of sound spaces. Passions and emotions are shared through a story-telling platform and are translated into music in the music composition chamber. Messages and expressions of musicians and the elderly are witnessed through the music archive that envelops the central box of music performance space.

In this building, the two groups become socially and emotionally connected.