Music

Symposium illustration
collage
1991 

From Eye Music Catalogue, Pallant House 2007

This tapestry, made by the Manufactura Tapeçarias Portalegre, is based on one of Tom Phillips's collage illustrations to Plato's Symposium.

"I am a composer in the same way as a pianist without hands could be a pianist. This is something I never stop thinking about, but which I can’t really handle in its entirety because I lack a whole range of technical expertise. Nevertheless an idea for a composition allows me to get ahead with all sorts of pieces of work. Some of these are in fact linked to the feeling I have for music and actually emerge as unplayable pieces, ones based on the almighty five line of the stave, which dominated the life of a musician from cradle to grave."