A meditation on contemporary music.
You will hear the work of the Rothko Chapel of Morton Feldman in its entirety. Furthermore, music by John Cage, Palestrina, Tim Gray, and Cees Sax.
00:05 Cees Sax. There’s comfort in melancholy. Cees Sax, guitar.
Home recording by Cees Sax.
04:31 John Cage. Ear for Ear (Antiphones). Houston Chamber Choir conducted by Robert Simpson.
From the album ‘Rothko Chapel’. ECM NEW SERIES 2378 4811796.
08:30 Jesse Mac Cormack. He Knows. Jesse Mac Cormack, guitar and vocals.
From the album: ‘Crush’. Secret City Records 6 80341047002 3.
12:53 Morton Feldman. Rothko Chapel. Kim Kashkashian, viola; Sarah rothenberg, piano, celesta; Steven schick, percussion; Houston Chamber Choir; Robert Simpson, conductor.
From the album ‘Rothko Chapel’. ECM NEW SERIES 2378 4811796
38:49 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Super Flumina Babylonis. Pro Cantione Antiqua; Runo Turner, conductor.
From the album ‘Palestrina: Missa Aeterna Christi Munera – 3 Motets – Lassus: Busspsalm u.a. – Pro Cantione Antiqua’.
Archiv Produktion 437072-2.
43:13 Sophie Hunger. D’Red. Sophie Hunger & band.
From the album: ‘1983’. Two Gentlemen Records, twogtl 009-J
46:11 Juliana Barwick. Envelop. Julianna Barwick, tape & computer.
From the album ‘The Magic Place’. Asthmatic Kitty Records AKR081
51:19 Tim Gray. Dodecahedron. Ethernet (Tim Gray).
From the album ‘Opus 2’. Krank 173
58:29 Nils Frahm. Some (fragment).
From the album ‘Solo’. Erased Tapes Records ERATP065CD.
Poem by Willem Wilmink
