This late-night solo piano programme is a reflection on the works and influences of Morton Feldman. Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble’s Daniel Browell performs works spanning Feldman’s career, including those inspired by visual patterns and artists of the time. During the performance Belfast-based artist Helena Hamilton will create visual reflections on the music, negotiating a relationship between the sonic and visual.
“I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe … not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn’t know how it’s made, that you shouldn’t know if there’s a system, that you shouldn’t know anything about it … except that it’s some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life … if you’re into it.”
Piano Piece 1956 A & B
Morton Feldman (1926 – 1987)
Makrokosmos Night-Spell I (Sagittarius) Night-Spell II: Ghost-Nocturne: for the Druids of Stonehenge (Virgo)
George Crumb (1929 – 2022)
Hunt in the Forest of Ros (2015)
Andrew Hamilton (1977)
Piano Piece to Philip Guston (1984)
Morton Feldman (1926 – 1987)
Star Falling (2004)
Cheryl Frances Hoad (1980)
Palais de Mari (1986)
Morton Feldman (1926 – 1987)
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