Ludwig LIVE: Musica Moralia

“I need sound swimmers with long arms, webbed fingers.

I need sound swimmers, men who understand

That although it goes by seven names, there is only one sea.”

Musica Moralia’s (Eda Meggyeshazi) music bears a distinct atmosphere; a creation in the experimental, post-folk sphere. In her own words she plays silent noise, sometimes on the dulcimer, sometimes on the piano. She has been in the music scene for more than ten years in Hungary, often in Germany or the Netherlands. In 2012 she self-released her first EP, entitled Tooth and Teeth, followed by her debut LP, in 2016 with the title Hell is Coming Home It is an intimate and highly personal album consisting of songs written and performed on the dulcimer, piano, and electric-organ. Since 2016 she is signed to Klinik Label.

The concert made for Ludwig Museum’s exhibition Slow Life. Radical Practices of the Everyday places water in its principal focus, a reoccurring and constant theme of Musica Moralia. The body of water, as the motif of connection, wholeness and the presence of everything appears not only as structural symbol but also as a lyrical element. The slowness of the water and its ability to demolish all; the force of resumption emerge simultaneously. Therefore, it becomes the instrument of ablution, ritual and initiation, the measures of power and its postulation. An instrument, which allows one to go on a mental journey, where after experiencing and leaving behind the extremes, one can return to their own course.

The visual of the concert was made by Katinka Hajas. Her partly digital, party analogue technique navigates the moving images through several lenses. The macro-images appearing next to the concert, seem to be unrecognizable, recalling an unknown world, where the slowly moving shapes, lights, fields and compositions step into the sphere of abstraction.