TIJDCAPSULES
What links us to our past and our future? That question was central to the project Tijdcapsules, which premiered at the Grachtenfestival 2022. A team consisting of Arjan Linker on trombone, Mattias Spee on piano and synthesizer, Benjamin de Boer on double bass, Gijs Idema on guitar and Dimitri Geelhoed on electronics set out to answer this question. In the resulting show they combined elements from Indian raga, Georgian folk music, Renaissance polyphony and pop music from bands like Radiohead into a dream-like hour of music, supported by live visual effects from Lisa Derksen Castillo a.k.a. Sea the Sound.
Tijdcapsules at Grachtenfestival 2022
By combining music from different places on earth and different moments in history, on the one hand it becomes apparent how fast the world changes, while on the other hand it will always stay the same. This group of musicians has something specific in common: besides composers and performers, they are all avid improvisers. That’s a big part of why this team was selected for this project. Improvisation is the closest we can get to actually capturing a point in time that is truly unique, because by its very nature we can’t hold on to it.
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