BANG!, Parels voor de zwijnen in C# (2017)
Invited by Joris Van De Moortel
Kultuurkaffee @Begijnhofkerk, Brussel

Joris Van De Moortel
Dolly Bing Bing
Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
Raphaël Desmarets
Ramses Van Den Eede
Elias Devoldere
Joris Kerremans
Alien Observer

BANG! festival is an extraordinary festival combining visual arts with music, performances, acts etcetera etcetera etcetera.

Curator Joris Van De Moortel assigned each evening with a proverb used by Pieter Brueghel in his Twelve Proverbs (1558) and a musical key. I was asked to work with the expression ‘parels voor de zwijnen’ (pearls before swine). This evening was centred around ‘the voice’.

Since Pieter Brueghel the Elder lived in a time in which polyphonic was booming business, I worked out an evening focussing on nothing but the voice. The location was a church, which made it logical to opt for working with a choir.

The plan:
A choir trains 6 chords and holds it for a very long time. For each of the chords, I invited a guest to perform a solo on top of the chord. This of course all very contemporarily. The soloists were 2 performance artists, 2 pop musicians, curator and visual artist Joris Van De Moortel and myself, who made the composition and contributed to all of the voices. Two of the soloists brought a drummer.