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20 September 2025 • Nicolas Wolf
"Resonanzraum" #005 Pastorale
Concert: Nicolas Wolf (CH) - drummer, improviser, audiovisual artist
Listening session: Music from Luc Ferrari (FR) - composer
Saturday, 20 September 2025 - Halle Main Station, Zurich
4 pm to 9.30 pm (continuous musical and artistic performances)
In an art installation, an inflatable organ made from a hot-air balloon by Kaspar König and Jope Schneider, guerillaclassics, together with curators tracy september and Severin Kolb, invites you to a listening session with music by Luc Ferrari and Nicolas Wolf (live) in Zurich's main station Halle. Visitors are invited to immerse themselves in a musical collage by French composer Luc Ferrari featuring sounds from the Pyrenees. This will be followed by a concert by Bernese composer Nicolas Wolf, in which he responds to Ferrari's work.
About the project:
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.”
