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20. September 2025 • Nicolas Wolf
In a matter of seconds, you can travel not only halfway around the world, but also decades in time—that is the power of music. From the bustling hall of Zurich's main train station, you step into a balloon, a kind of time capsule, and are instantly transported to a tropical, sultry summer night in the sleepy village of Tuchan in the middle of the Pyrenees. In his second “Presque rien,” French composer Luc Ferrari and his wife Brunhild whisper animatedly against a sonic backdrop of cicadas, while a violent thunderstorm brews. An “almost nothing”? More like a clear case of understatement! For this twenty-minute collage of found, artificially produced, or distorted sounds captures not only the essence of an interpersonal relationship, but also years of loving listening to the world and musical interaction with what is heard. The Bernese composer Nicolas Wolf, who originally comes from the jazz scene but also incorporates installation practices into his work and experiments with field recordings, responds to the Frenchman's work with his own “almost nothing.”
Who: Nicolas Wolf
Where: Entry Hall of Zurich HB and in the yellow inflatable organ by Kaspar König and Jope Schneider
When: Saturday, 20. September 2025, 4 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m.
