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.

On Friday 7 October, as the sun rose, a new edition of Silence will featured a musical performance by cellist and sound artist Anthea Caddy in a collaboration between the Oude Kerk and Sonic Acts Biennial 2022.

Using two parabolic speakers, Anthea Caddy explored sound as a physical phenomenon in space. Caddy's live performance with her cello served as input to the speakers, extending the physical properties of projected sound energy through amplified cellos through the Oude Kerk's unique acoustic space. This project was created in close collaboration with media artist and engineer Miodrag Gladovic to create large-scale bodies of spatial sound phenomena.

Materials

Cello, microphone, speakers

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