Matinee: Eli Keszler Solo

In the middle of the pandemic, on April 19, 2020, a young man sits down in a New York studio in front of a drum set consisting of various drums, traditional percussion instruments and a handpan.
The British channel Boiler Room, which is actually known for rave videos with an exalted audience, broadcasts the drum solo live on the internet. Thousands of music fans sit spellbound in their lockdown idyll and listen to a great moment of improvisation, some are moved to tears by the film that is created to this soundtrack in their head cinema. "I experience music both through sound and in a visual form," says Keszler, explaining his interdisciplinary perspective. "I make drawings and installations to trigger a musical process." And so his music appears to us as a spherical art exhibition that we enter with our ears.