Following a performance at CTM 2024 Kali Malone returns to present a full live concert version of her album All Life Long for pipe organ, choir, and brass quintet. 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.
 
Malone’s music for pipe organ, choir, chamber ensembles, and electroacoustic formats has quickly risen to international critical acclaim. She has performed extensively, presenting her music at Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Radio France, Rockefeller Chapel, Grace Cathedral, The Southbank Center, Bozar, Schauspielhaus, Berghain, Unsound Festival, Berlin Atonal, and Kanal Pompidou amongst many other museums, contemporary art spaces, concert halls, churches, festivals and DIY spaces throughout Europe, North America, Japan and Australia. Her commissioned work and residencies include the Ina GRM, The Venice Biennale, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orgelpark, and Lafayette Anticipations. She has collaborated and performed with various artists, including Lucy Railton, Caterina Barbieri, Leila Bordreuil, Drew McDowall, Anima Brass, Countrachamps, and Eklekto Percussion. Originally from Colorado, Malone relocated to Stockholm in 2012. She is currently based between Stockholm and Paris.

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