June 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm
A project of the Academy of Music Darmstadt, featuring archival material and conceptual input from the International Music Institute Darmstadt and the artist Nikolaus Heyduck, educational content from the Jazz Institute Darmstadt and in collaboration with the Kunsthalle Darmstadt
To mark the 100th birthdays of Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and David Tudor, this event explores key ideas of the New York School: open-form concepts, experimental notations, and a musical approach that deliberately intertwines composition, performance and sound research.
The concert installation takes place amidst the exhibition of Dutch artist Robert Zandvliet, whose works draw on key impulses from North American Color Field painting of the 1950s and 1960s. The ideas of the New York School are thus placed in an open dialogue with the Kunsthalle’s spaces and Zandvliet’s exhibition. Points of contact arise less on the level of stylistic or formal parallels than in a shared sensibility for perception, duration and the experience of time in space. Music is presented here not as a finished work, but as a process – as something that unfolds in the moment, changes and engages in dialogue with the space, the performers and the audience.
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