The Morning Line is the second architectonic commission by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Developed as a research / investigation for a new pavilion The Morning Line is challenging architectural convention: The team of collaborators has designed the first semiasographic building, an architectural language that directly expresses its content through its structure. A platform for contemporary music, The Morning Line is as much an instrument as a building and saturated with speakers, using a unique interactive ambisonic system.

Guest sound curator Russell Haswell has invited Jana Winderen, Peter Zinovieff, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and Yasunao Tone, to compose exclusively for The Morning Line. The new T-B A21 music commissions will be premiered and performed live on the opening weekend (May 22–24) in Istanbul and add to the sonic program of The Morning Line which includes music by Bryce Dessner in collaboration with David Sheppard and Evan Ziporyn, Riceboy Sleeps (Jón Thór Birgisson and Alex Somers), Mark Fell in collaboration with Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Florian Hecker, Bruce Gilbert, Lee Ranaldo, Thom Willems, and Chris Watson. > >