Feldman, Patterns in a Chromatic Field

Lucy Railton (cello) & Joe Houston (piano)

Morton Feldman, Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981)

Lucy Railton (cello) and Joe Houston (piano)

"Do it one way and do it another. Spell it one way, then spell it another way. Orchestrate it one way, orchestrate it another way. Use this kind of rhythm and then use another kind of rhythm. Do it on a chain one after the other, do it less on a chain, do it in a simultaneity. All the possibilities of do it one way and do it another, rather than just on a linear situation. It goes in every manifestation: have A-B-C-D-E-F one way, D-F-E-A another way. It’s very related to serialism, but it’s also very related to medieval disciplines of the Kabbala." – MORTON FELDMAN on Patterns in a Chromatic Field

LUCY RAILTON has been a performer, programmer, and music maker since 2008, releasing albums on Modern Love, Editions Mego - GRM Portraits (split with Max Eilbacher), PAN (with Peter Zinovieff), ECM, SN Variations, Shelter Press, and Takuroku. Over the years, she has performed and recorded with creators from a range of disciplines including Kit Downes, Catherine Lamb, Rebecca Salvadori, Peter Zinovieff, Beatrice Dillon, Phillippe Parreno, Kali Malone, Sofia Jernberg, Christian Lillinger, Rhodri Davies, Angharad Davies, Laura Grace Ford, Akram Khan, Nicolas Becker, Alex Hills, Alison Knowles, the Tate Modern, Blank Forms, the ICA, the Harmonic Space Orchestra, and the Ever Present Orchestra. (www.lucyrailton.com)

JOSEPH HOUSTON is a pianist who aims to curate unique and immersive programmes while involving himself as much as possible in the compositional process of new commissions. He believes music is fundamentally collaborative and is particularly interested in works that challenge the traditional composer-performer-listener triangle; new or unusual notation practices; and pieces that intensely explore the nature of sound itself. (www.josephhouston.co.uk)

Doors 19:30 / Concert 20:30 / Karl-Marx-Straße 28, Berlin

With support from Neustart Kultur, Initiative Musik gGmbH, and Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medie