Matthew Barley
Light Stories

"This is a program for our time, using the magical powers of music to comfort, soothe and hopefully uplift the heart," says English cellist Matthew Barley about "Light Stories". With music and projected images from the video designers YeastCulture, he passionately talks about his own life: about the search for meaning in making music and how he overcame a trauma he experienced as a teenager. Pieces by Bach, contemporary composers and, above all, Barley himself are strung together without interruption and linked by short improvisations and electronics, creating the impression of a continuous instrumental music theater.

Concert without intermission


Matthew Barley

Violoncello

YeastCulture

Video Design


Matthew Barley
The Spell
The Dreaming
Cathedrals and Caves

Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No. 6 BWV 1012

Jan Bang
Implanted Memories

Giovanni Sollima
Hell I (da Songs from the Divine Comedy)

Anna Meredith
moonmoons
Blackfriars

Matthew Barley
Unraveling

Joby Talbot
Motion Detector

Matthew Barley
In the Crosshairs
Timefolding

John Metcalfe
Constant filter

Matthew Barley
Full, Empty
The Unwaiting Sky