Nagele Door Nagele
Audio performance
Audio performance
Presentation Graduation Show, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, (NL), 2015
Nagele Door Nagele
Audio performance
2015
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Test, Audio Guide, Nagele, (NL), 2015
Audio performance
2015
Test, Audio Guide, Nagele, (NL), 2015
Nagele door Nagele is a performance piece where musicians from Nagele play music which is composed from sound of their own village.
Nagele is a small modernist village in the North East Polder in the Netherlands. Due to it’s remarkable architecture and it’s situation on ‘new land’ Nagele can be seen as a test case in the field of urban planning in the 50ies. The tension there seems to be between preservation of the original design and the (current) needs of the inhabitants became the focus of the project.
The question of urban planning was turned upside down: What cannot be planned in a village like Nagele?
After a detour on the study of birdsong, sound in general became the main interest. Nagele is designed according to sight, and sound comes with the living elements within the design. The sounds of the living village seemed the ‘hole’ the planners had to leave open. The task of the project became to create a portrait of Nagele in sound. This then resulted in a transcribed fieldrecording during a walk in the village, and a music score based on that.
This score was developed in 3 different pieces by composer Anthony Dunstan and resulted in 3 performances in the Nagele on 27 of June 2015, where people form Nagele played the score based on sounds recorded in their own village. They were performances from “3 of a Kind”, a girls band, the Apollo Ensemble which is a chamber orchestra specialized in old Baroque, and a performance in one of the three churches of Nagele, where an organ piece was played.
Nagele is a small modernist village in the North East Polder in the Netherlands. Due to it’s remarkable architecture and it’s situation on ‘new land’ Nagele can be seen as a test case in the field of urban planning in the 50ies. The tension there seems to be between preservation of the original design and the (current) needs of the inhabitants became the focus of the project.
The question of urban planning was turned upside down: What cannot be planned in a village like Nagele?
After a detour on the study of birdsong, sound in general became the main interest. Nagele is designed according to sight, and sound comes with the living elements within the design. The sounds of the living village seemed the ‘hole’ the planners had to leave open. The task of the project became to create a portrait of Nagele in sound. This then resulted in a transcribed fieldrecording during a walk in the village, and a music score based on that.
This score was developed in 3 different pieces by composer Anthony Dunstan and resulted in 3 performances in the Nagele on 27 of June 2015, where people form Nagele played the score based on sounds recorded in their own village. They were performances from “3 of a Kind”, a girls band, the Apollo Ensemble which is a chamber orchestra specialized in old Baroque, and a performance in one of the three churches of Nagele, where an organ piece was played.
