Solitude fellow Mert Moralı is part of the event »Die Lange Nacht der Musik von Zuhause«

We are happy about the collaboration between Mert Moralı (fellow 2025/2026) and the Stuttgart State Opera, which developed during his fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Mert Moralı is part of the event The Long Night of Music from Home with the premiere of his new work Immobilities.

Music is movement—a sound is created through motion, travels through space, encounters another, and stirs something within: joy or sorrow, longing or melancholy, happiness or unease. Music moves us as human beings. In his work Immobilities, Moralı takes this idea one step further by allowing the movements of the audience to flow directly into his music.

In Immobilities, the musicians respond spontaneously to their surroundings, the audience, and its movements, transforming these impressions into sound. At the same time, they are spatially constrained by their instruments and the technical setup. This creates a tension between external movement and their own immobility. Moralı thus portrays people who perceive many impulses in a dynamic, fast-paced world, yet are unable to join in its movement. In the context of migration, the work draws attention to those who are left behind: they, too, are affected by the changes around them, even as they remain in place.