“For Christian was filmed during a residency I had at Dartmouth College, New England, in spring 2013. Through Larry Polanski in the electronic music department I was introduced to Christian, who had recently retired from teaching but still lived locally. Christian is a natural raconteur and had stories of working alongside all the great 20th century composers Cage, Feldmann, Stockhausen, Tudor etc. He also spoke lucidly about the topics that have concerned his own music from working with non-musicians to indeterminacy, using text scores and political songs. One Sunday I travelled out to his farm which he runs with his wife and son, we spoke about music, peepers, the donkey and sheep and his relationship to Cornelius. I shot 400ft and edited it down to around half of that. The images are accompanied by Christian talking about his work and playing some short pieces on the piano, at home in Hanover, a week or so later.” (LF)
