For Philip Guston is a major work by the US composer Morton Feldman, written in 1984 in honor of his friend, the artist Philip Guston. Like many of his compositions, it is particularly long: four and a half hours of music, without pause, without stop, in one movement.

Feldman’s work focuses on listening to sound. Sound for its own sake, for what it produces in our ears, in our bodies, in our heads. The result is a unique experience, for listeners and musicians alike, an experience of time and letting go, of being in the present, in the very instant of sound vibrations.

To meet the extreme demands of the score - combined with the complexity of the organization - Ensemble Vide brought together three virtuoso musicians for the premiere of this project in Geneva in May 2018. They then collaborated with an artist, an architect and a lighting designer, to conceive the venue, the sound, and define listening spaces and possible scenic arrangements.

In June 2018, For Philip Guston traveled to the Aldeburgh Festival (UK) for a sunrise listening experience.