Quiet Bellows (2026) by Kalle Moberg
17.03.2026
Kalle Moberg performs Quiet Bellows (2026), a short and delicate work inspired by, and faintly echoing, François Couperin’s ‘Prélude en fa majeur’ from L’Art de toucher le clavecin.
The piece unfolds through a palette of extended techniques drawn from Moberg’s research – phantom fundamentals, aperture pitch bending, stratified interference beating, split-tone multiphonics, flexible microtonality, friction tones, and polytimbrality – revealing the instrument’s subtle, breathing complexity.
This work emerges from Moberg’s research project Extended Expectations – exploring the accordion's organic potential through novel instrumental techniques and non-linear free-reed phenomena, undertaken at the Norwegian Academy of Music (2021–2026).
Filmed and edited by Andreas Sætre at Saetre Media on 17.03.2026.