Between times
Sometimes it seems that music has the power to stop time. Sometimes to stretch it, sometimes to speed it up. And even though the mechanics of the clockwork adamantly tick on, the flow of time is an illusion. Time only exists when perceived as such by our consciousness.
While listening to music, we experience, think, and feel musical time. It starts breathing and becomes vital. Music is unthinkable without time. Rhythm, measure, tempo, and tones are temporally structured vibrations passing through the air. But where is music? It can be found somewhere within times of composition, performance, and reception. If the phenomenon of time gives possibility to music, it also prevents music from being held on to – a note has hardly sounded when it is already over. Music is between times.
We specify individual points in time exactly, as if intermediate instances on an infinite path. Between such points we find music: works, people, places, spaces, movements or epochs; and here, between times, we can also wander through our thoughts.
Music enables times of pleasure today. It creates an invisible, ephemeral space to enter while listening to music. We accompany you through musical times of the 49th concert season in the Festival Musikdorf Ernen.