Dressed in a warm, effervescent glow, the two-storey Beaux-Arts Court of New York City’s Brooklyn Museum played host to the world premiere of ‘Seeing Sound, Hearing Krug’, a sensory collaboration between acclaimed Japanese composer, musician and actor Ryuichi Sakamoto and the historic champagne house. A hundred guests sat in two triangular formations, flanked by a live orchestra of 36 musicians on one side, and a pianist and the concertmaster before a shifting digital backdrop on the other. A perimeter of slender light columns encapsulated the entire synesthetic playground.
Set to a cascade of crotales (a series of radiant antique cymbals), guests were served their first pour of Krug, and Sakamoto’s three-movement symphony, , commenced. Each ten-minute segment was paired with the Krug champagne
