Göteborgs Konserthus Durations: Morton Feldman

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In collaboration with three composers, Ensemble Makadam has worked with time and space, sound and listening in various forms. In the work of the “concert installation” Durations, three compositions have emerged as well as ideas for lighting design and scenography. The project also includes concerts and lecture.

The composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was one of the pioneers in the New York school where John Cage was singing and among other composers Christian Wolff and Earl Browne were included. His composer created a still low-key music that slowly changes and consists of rhythms that seem free-flowing and softly unconventional harmonic shadows. The piano quartet belongs to his last work from the period after 1977.

Durations can be experienced in the entrance hall in Gothenburg Concert Hall 4-10 September. During the same period, each composer will also get his work presented in full, with elements of the ensemble improvisations.

In addition to the concerts of composers, the ensemble performs two concerts with its own program content – including this concert – and so the journalist and author Magnus Haglund speaks of the importance of the room for listening.

Durations is a collaboration between Gothenburg Concert Hall, Live Music and Ensemble Makadam. With support from the National Music Agency and the Culture Council.