“My music lives in silence,” composer Morton Feldman once said. We invite you to discover his work on January 30 at Paliesius Manor—through both sound and image.

Morton Feldman’s piece “Patterns in a Chromatic Field” (“Raštai spalvų lauke”, 1981) is one of the artist’s most significant late works, composed for cello and piano. The approximately 90-minute composition is woven from subtle, slowly shifting sound patterns, where repetitions are never entirely identical. Feldman’s creative principle, known as “crippled symmetry”—a logic of imperfect symmetry inspired by the structures of Oriental rugs—becomes a metaphor for the flow of time, attention, and human imperfection.

In the audiovisual work “Patterns in a Chromatic Field | Dėmesio praktika”, Feldman’s creative principles serve not merely to replicate sound or image, but as a way of thinking—rooted in slowness, micro-variations, and repetition without climax. This logic is brought into a contemporary context: the “chromatic field” of screens, notifications, and algorithms, where our attention is constantly fragmented.

How do we continue to listen when sound becomes mere background? How do we hold our gaze when it is endlessly interrupted?

The work emphasizes the importance of an ecology of attention—here, attention functions as both a perceptual field and an instrument for reflection.