Sound – Image – Space – Time

27. September 2026 • Jürg Henneberger, Christoph Bösch, Daniel Stalder, Manuel Bärtsch, Desirée Hieronimus, Severin Kolb

9 seconds. That’s supposedly how long a goldfish’s attention span lasts. In the age of digital media, however, we humans aren’t a bit better. The content (to use a term that’s so characteristic of our times) we consume is getting shorter and shorter. Sure—how else are we junkies supposed to keep that dopamine rush going!?

So what do we do with a piece of music that challenges us for a good 2,000 goldfish attention spans? With a work that doesn’t do everything it can to keep us engaged? Does a mosaic emerge of passages we listen to intently and others where our thoughts wander elsewhere—to work, the stresses of leisure, war, or other worries? Is the performance an imposition on us, worse than Wagner’s *Parsifal*? Or a welcome meditation retreat on a small scale? And do four hours really feel like four hours? Or do we feel like Feldman, to whom the piece seemed shorter: “It’s four, but I want to reassure you: it really sounds like two.” “For Philipp Guston,” which the three musicians Jürg Henneberger, Christop Bösch, and Daniel Stalder will perform this coming Sunday at the Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil, is just one of the many pieces in his catalog of works of unprecedented dimensions: “My pieces aren’t too long. When you listen to them, they seem to blend into the landscape of time that I bring with me. Would you say that *The Odyssey* is too long?”—so says Feldman.

In collaboration with “Musiksommer am Zürichsee” and in harmony with the “Resonance Spaces” curated by tracy september and Severin Kolb for guerillaclassics, we combine an exhibition, a concert, a spatial experience, and meditation into a single event. Morton Feldman’s “For Philipp Guston” is a world unto itself, of unprecedented dimensions. In this work, motifs repeat and gradually change, much like the play of light throughout the day. We begin at 1:00 p.m. and stay until 6:00 p.m. You decide for yourself when and how long you’d like to stop by. A pre-recorded (breathing) meditation accompanying the piece is available for individual use—headphones and devices are provided on site. You can listen, visit the exhibition “Voller Leben” (“Full of Life”) curated by Guido Baumgartner at IG Halle, move about freely, and decide for yourself how much of Feldman, modern art, and shifting perspectives appeals to you.

Jürg Henneberger – piano, celesta

Christoph Bösch – flute

Daniel Stalder – percussion

Manuel Bärtsch – Curation

Desirée Hieronimus, Severin Kolb – Education

Location: Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Schönbodenstrasse 1, 8640 Rapperswil

Time: Sunday, September 27, 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Come and go as you please)

Admission is free; donations welcome