Kali Malone presents All Life Long

Sounding the massive organ in Berlin’s iconic Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche with additional organ accompaniment by Stephen O’Malley, Malone will be joined by Macadam Ensemble vocal quartet, and a five-piece microtonal brass ensemble consisting of Elena Kakaliagou, Johannes Lauer, Magnus Schriefl, Rike Huy, and Weston Olencki. Kali Malone’s music is patient and focused, built on a foundation of evolving harmonic cycles that draw out latent emotional resonances; letting go of expectations of duration and breadth offers a space for reflection and contemplation. In her hands, experimental reinterpretations of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods become portals to new ways of perceiving harmony, structure, and introspection. The music of All Life Long simmers in an ever-shifting tension between repetition and variation. The pieces for brass, organ, and voice provide nearly continuous timbral fluctuation even as thematic material reiterates, their internal framework of fractal pattern permutations has the paradoxical effect of creating anticipated keystone moments of dramatic reverie and lulling the listener into believing in an illusory endlessness.