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.

Two paintings by Antônio Obá hung on the eastern side of the High Choir. In the middle of the same space, visitors could find the installation 'Iron Garden', consisting of 2400 swinging sticks, from which bells hung, like flowers on their stalks, like an artificial field of flowers. The concert by Fuensanta Méndez and the Trio Perselí took place in this concert; music of great poetic and mysterious eloquence.

Materials

Instruments, microphone, speakers

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