Dialogues of bells and beats
Bells and Percussion is a project that will witness its premiere in 2020. The bells of the carillon will enter into dialogue with the sounds of a group of percussionists.
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It will be a unique combination of whipping rhythms, mysterious sound clouds, meditative patterns… Think of Les Tambours de Bronx, Slagerij van Kampen… but then extended with a section of bells.
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The percussionists are under the direction of Nico Camps.
EXTRA: BELL-DRUMMERS !!!
PERCUSSION ON SWINGING BELLS
Bells and Percussion can be extended by our bell drummers. These are percussionists who play rhytmically on the swinging bells up in the tower.
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Swinging bells in church towers nowadays serve less to announce the wholy mass and therefore we use them as a rhytmical instrument.
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That is nothing new in itself, as this ‘chiming’ was already applied in our region from the Middle Ages onwards , but has fallen out of use. We pick up this tradition again, but we do it in our own, contemporary manner.
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The bells in the tower enter into dialogue with the bells on wheels and the percusssion group on the ground. It’s a combination of mystery from above with a spectacle at eye level.