Early in the morning, the Oude Kerk is a meditative oasis in the city. Since 2017, on every first Friday of the month at 8 a.m., when the rising sun casts its light through the church’s towering windows and the neighbourhood slowly wakes up, visitors can enjoy the Silence music programme. The concerts celebrate the acoustics and space of the Oude Kerk, which invites mostly young, experimental musicians. There are no fixed seats; visitors are welcome to walk around and discover what the music sounds like in different places in the church.

In this edition Lucrecia Dalt used her own voice and the church space as the starting point for a concert in which vocal, acoustic and electronic music melted together. The concert took place in the context of the art installation 'Path' by Antônio Obá. His works were arranged in the nave. With this installation, Obá emphasised the longitudinal axis of the church, which played an important role in medieval liturgy. It runs from the main organ (west) to the High Choir (east), where the altar was located before the Reformation. In the Choir, visitors could find Obá's work 'Iron Garden', which consisted of 2400 bells, an artificial field of flowers. They referred to bells that initiate a religious ritual, but also to the historical function of bells as an alarm signal when danger threatens.

Materials

DJ set-up, laptop, speakers, table, microphone

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