Musica Viva Spreads consists of nine quilts, the abstract composition of which is based on the graphic layout of nine double pages of the first issue of the magazine Musica Viva. Musica Viva is a music magazine founded by my grandfather Hermann Scherchen (Berlin 1891 - Florence 1966), the German conductor and pioneer of avant-garde music in Brussels in 1936. This publishing project aimed to create an alternative platform and support system for new music that could not thrive in Nazi Germany, which Scherchen left in a sign of protest in 1933.

With every article printed in four languages (English, French, German, and Italian), the internationalism of Musica Viva was present on every page. "The question of language is obliterated in the whole world of culture," read one review of the time, "and the magazine can be appreciated by everyone." However, this utopian impulse made the magazine expensive to produce, lasting only three issues.

For Musica Viva Spreads, I assigned a colour to each language-orange for English, green for French, red for German, and blue for Italian-and created coloured fields based on how the text flows across the double pages. The quilting technique gives the works the quality of being an image to be contemplated and something to be used. The quilts can be arranged individually or joined together to form a large area or hung on the wall or from the ceiling.