Spiegelgasse Salon: Four Evenings of New Music
Each evening pairs one new piece with one old one chosen by the composer, and the pairing is argued about out loud before anything is played.
The room is a domestic one with a domestic piano, and the programme is built around what that instrument can honestly do. Nothing is amplified.
Three of the four pairings set a living composer against someone dead for two hundred years; the fourth sets a composer against her own piece from 2009 and is the evening people argue about on the stairs afterwards.
The composer stays for the second half of the evening, which is not a talk but a table, and which usually outlasts the music by an hour.
Sixty seats, sold in one release. Latecomers are seated between pieces, and the stairs are steep and unlit above the first landing.
Upcoming events
Paper and Press: Three Centuries of Dutch Type
Punches, matrices and proofs from Enschedé, laid out beside the machines that cut them.
Blue Hour: Cyanotypes from the Raval
Forty prints made with river water and morning sun, hung in a former dye works on Carrer de Joaquín Costa.
Form Follows Feeling: A Bauhaus Retrospective
One hundred objects that taught the century how to sit, read and pour. Curated with the Dessau archive.
Chromatic Studies: Albers to Now
Homage to the square, continued. Colour interaction from 1950 to the present in twelve rooms.
Refshaleøen Winter Market
Forty stalls in an unheated shipyard hall, open four hours a day for three weekends.
Nocturnes at the Glass Pavilion
Chopin and Glass after dark, performed for ninety listeners under a single suspended light.