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Harmonie in stilte

In de bijzondere entourage van de oude bioscoop wordt geluisterd naar ‘passende’ muziek waarbij je in eerste instantie stil wordt, maar daarna niet meer stil kan zitten. De reizigers ervaren welke energie muziek in ons los kan maken.
Brassband Schoonhoven werd derde op de Nederlandse Kampioenschappen. Ze dragen geen uniformen maar spelen wie ze zijn.

De band speelt de volgende stukken:

• Accidental Mambo
• Hedwig's Theme (uit de film Harry Potter)
• For the love of a princes (uit de film Bravehart)
• Zimba Zamba
• Meiso (Japans voor contemplatie)
• Shine as the light
• Out of Africa (uit de gelijknamige film)
• Shaft (uit de gelijknamige film)
• Alle the time in the world

Zimba Zamba is een erg bijzonder stuk. Het is geschreven voor Evelyn Glennie. Zij is een dove vrouw die prachtig de Marimba kan spelen, een echte percusioniste. Haar gevoel voor muziek en haar genieten van muziek is volledig gelegen in het voelen van de luchtrillingen. Bij het horen van muziek als Zimba Zamba begrijp je dat je muziek ook moet voelen.

"Deafness is poorly understood in general. For instance, there is a common misconception that deaf people live in a world of silence. To understand the nature of deafness, first one has to understand the nature of hearing.

Hearing is basically a specialized form of touch. Sound is simply vibrating air which the ear picks up and converts to electrical signals, which are then interpreted by the brain. The sense of hearing is not the only sense that can do this, touch can do this too. If you are standing by the road and a large truck goes by, do you hear or feel the vibration? The answer is both. With very low frequency vibration the ear starts becoming inefficient and the rest of the body's sense of touch starts to take over. For some reason we tend to make a distinction between hearing a sound and feeling a vibration, in reality they are the same thing. It is interesting to note that in the Italian language this distinction does not exist. The verb 'sentire' means to hear and the same verb in the reflexive form 'sentirsi' means to feel. Deafness does not mean that you can't hear, only that there is something wrong with the ears. Even someone who is totally deaf can still hear/feel sounds.

If we can all feel low frequency vibrations why can't we feel higher vibrations? It is my belief that we can, it's just that as the frequency gets higher and our ears become more efficient they drown out the more subtle sense of 'feeling' the vibrations. Evelyn spent a lot of time when she was young (with the help of Ron Forbes her percussion teacher at school) refining her ability to detect vibrations. She would stand with her hands against the classroom wall while Ron played notes on the timpani (timpani produce a lot of vibrations). Eventually Evelyn managed to distinguish the rough pitch of notes by associating where on her body she felt the sound with the sense of perfect pitch she had before losing her hearing. The low sounds she feels mainly in her legs and feet and high sounds might be particular places on her face, neck and chest."

(bron: website van Evelyn Glennie)