Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas' exhibition Poems for Earthlings constituted an impressive intervention in the architecture of the Oude Kerk. As a result of the installation, new temporary spaces and volumes were created in the church. At the back of the installation was one such space: the High Choir. This is where Silence #26 took place. Temporarily closed off from the rest of the church and with acoustics that were different. During this morning concert, pianist Helena Basilova performed Morton Feldman's composition Triadic Memories. The American composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) became known in the 1950s. He was in close contact with visual artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Philip Guston, Alexander Calder and Jackson Pollock. The perception of time changes in his compositions and classical form is let go. Concepts such as proportion and scale will be replaced for this. Lengths of time, rests and silences increase; the listener's musical memory is tested. Feldman regarded his Triadic Memories (1981) as a spatial landscape in which you move. Can a landscape take too long, and does it have a beginning and an end?

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