To mark the 25th anniversary of the St. Matthew's Foundation, St. Matthew's Church has been transformed into a musical instrument: Artist and composer William Engelen has equipped the church below the galleries all around with a curtain of 366 metal sound tubes. Each of the 366 sound tubes, which visualize a graphic score with their different lengths, stands for one day of the year, creating a room-filling sounding calendar of the church year 2024. Both musicians, who will play a composition by Engelen, and visitors can play the instrument and thus make the church and the year resound. A game with time and eternity: sound rhythms of the days, weeks and months, everyday days and feast days, church year and calendar year, and the longing for eternity sound together.
With Magda Mayas and Tony Buck, keyboard instruments and percussion
The exhibition is sponsored by the Verein Ausstellungshaus für christliche Kunst e.V., the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Berlin and the Mondriaan Fonds für Bildende Kunst und Kulturgut
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