“My music lives in silence,” said composer Morton Feldman. We invite you to discover his work on January 30 at Paliesius Manor – through both sound and image.
Morton Feldman's Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981) is one of the artist's most significant late works, written for cello and piano. The approximately 90-minute composition is woven from subtle, slowly changing sound patterns, the repetitions of which are never identical. Feldman's creative principle, called "crippled symmetry" - a logic of imperfect symmetry inspired by the structures of oriental carpets - becomes a metaphor for the flow of time, attention, and human inaccuracy.
The audiovisual work “Patterns in a Chromatic Field | Attention Practice” follows Feldman’s creative principles not as a reproduction of sound or image, but as a way of thinking based on slowness, microvariations, repetition without climax. This logic is transferred to today’s context – the “chromatic field” of screens, messages and algorithms, in which our attention is constantly fragmented.
How do you stay audible when sound becomes the background? How do you maintain your gaze when it is constantly interrupted?
The work emphasizes the importance of the ecology of attention – here attention functions as a perceptual field and an instrument of reflection.
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Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field
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