SEVEN NIGHTS

2017 – 70 min.

Organ, cello, vocals and poetic light art about expectation and loss.

Music: Gubaidulina and Górecki.

SEVEN NIGHTS, a visual concert with live projections of magic lanterns on a 20-4 meter panoramic canvas.

SEVEN NIGHTS focuses on the life cycle of a person in seven dream nights. The nights are the domain of dreams, reflection, thoughts and processing of emotional events. From birth and motherhood you follow the emotional experience of an aging person, in which reality increasingly disappears into memories, thoughts, dreams and demons. When the body lets go of life, the eternal cycle begins again.

The music of Gubaidulina and Górecki (with organ, cello and soprano) expresses the emotions that the performance wants to evoke: expectation, despair and reconciliation. The organ is the instrument par excellence to let these feelings of otherworldly reality resound. It is a powerful instrument in which a whole orchestra is hidden. With singing and cello, the material human being is shown next to all the dream images of projections and shadow.

SEVEN NIGHTS was commissioned by the ORGELPARK Amsterdam.

Made possible by:

Performers:

Gerrie Meijers – organ
Jacqueline Hamelink – cello
Björk Níelsdóttir – soprano
Rob Logister – Marie Raemakers – projections

Creatives and Production:

Rob Logister – Marie Raemakers – production – concept – projection images – set – technique – music selection
Jeannette van Steen – final direction
Kees van de Wiel Music Productions – audio recording
Beeldstorm – video recording

Program:

1 Night of Desire – Górecki (organ and soprano) O Domina Nostra 1
2 Night of Loss – Gubaidulina (organ and cello) In Croce
3 Night of Melancholy – Gubaidulina (cello) Preludes 1, 2 and 3
4 Night of Memory – Gubaidulina (organ) Light and Dark
5 Night of Shadows – Gubaidulina (cello) Preludes 4, 5 and 6
6 Night of Demons – Górecki (organ) Kantata
7 Night of Reconciliation – Górecki (organ and soprano) O Domina Nostra 2