Met veel humor en een vleugje Alice in Wonderland brengt Ensemble Black Pencil samen met een acteur de geschiedenis van Schokland muzikaal tot leven. Ooit een eiland in de Zuiderzee, nu Unesco Werelderfgoed.

Uitvoerenden 

Actrice: Yara Alink
Ensemble Black Pencil:
Jorge Isaac (blokfluit), Matthijs Koene (panfluit), Esra Pehlivanli (altviool), Marko Kassl (accordeon), Enric Monfort (slagwerk)

Concept, tekst, regie: Annechien Koerselman
Kostuum en decor: Anne Ammerlaan
Geluidstechniek: Arjan van Asselt

​Thema: Klimaatverandering, Verhuizen (ontworteling), Afscheid, Heimwee, Toekomstdromen

 Muziek: Nieuwe composities geschreven in opdracht van Black Pencil

Muziek

Florian Magnus Maier: Stormproofing (2022)
Stormproofing for blockflute, panflute, viola, accordion and percussion (2022)
As peaceful and beautiful as the Schokland Museum now sits in its serene, vast open landscape, is as difficult as the first settling of this Dutch former island must have been for its first inhabitants. In my mind, I imagined myself there, before the first houses, roads or easily accessible waterways, hauling scavenged building materials to a wild, swampy site with my bare hands, erecting shack after rickety shack, only to see them blown over by the merciless winds again and again. The notes of this piece try to capture those green plains as much as the frustrations of battling the elements for bare survival, and the glory of conquering such a site for shelter and future prosperity. Stormproofing is dedicated to my good friends of Black Pencil. Florian Magnus Maier

Aart Strootman: Popular Archeology: Volca #1 (2022)
Popular Archeology: Volca #1 for percussion & synthesizer (2022) These are fascinating times! What is an instrument nowadays? Did our QWERTY keyboard replace the ebony and ivory or are we at the onset of a new merging of the two? Playing with these thought experiments I started a series of compositions where I investigate the use of portable, battery driven instruments (often synthesizers) with acoustic instruments and/or lost and found objects that can be used as such. In this work the percussionist is fully nomadic with a small percussion setup consisting of lost and found nature (for example on Schokland) and a Korg Volca Kick - (re)uniting the oldest instruments with the newest. Aart Strootman

Ulrich Schultheiss: Drops in the wind (2022)
Lush grassland characterises Schokland; without rain, this habitat for animals and plants would not have turned out so lush. The music evokes associations of a typical downpour that starts and is suddenly over again. Ulrich Schultheiss

Soumil Biswas: Schokland (2022)
The composition is inspired by the unique beauty of the island of Schokland. The melody is gentle and smooth, which will remind one of nature and peace. Soumil Biswas

Andrzej Ojczenasz: Vespers (2022)
Nature forced the inhabitants of Schokland to leave the place, but, after years, people are able to visit it again and see the beauty of the historic balance between human activity and the beauty of nature. That reminded me Magnificat sequence from Vespers describing the internal state when the new life comes to a human being, everything changes a lot but provides a lot of happiness - after years, it is a reason for joyful remembrance. Andrzej Ojczenasz

Jonatan de Jesús Carrasco Hernández: The Gangway (2022)
This piece was inspired in the stories about the narrow gangway that people used to cross from a village to other. People passing by each other had to grip each other by the waist to not fall down. I think this was a nice way to share the space and help each other in a particular way that I haven't seen in any other place. In some places of Mexico, my own country, the ancients had an special salutation, two persons take the others arm with their hand and then put the hand on the others shoulder and they said a phrase "I am you and you are me". I find the siuation on the gangway a little familiar because they help each other in a special way that each one basicly trust their own life in the other. The piece try to describe with music this journey from one side to the other of the gangway. Jonatan de Jesús Carrasco Hernández

Piyawat Louilarpprasert: Nostalgic Scapes (2022)
The landscapes of Toerist in eigen land from Schokland inspired the piece. Sonically, I depict a variety of landscapes, cities, and people as musical elements for Pan Flute, including horizontal soundscapes, vibration of sounds and melodies, jumping notes, and tones. Personally, it reminds me of my hometown in Thailand, a Bangkok suburb, so I incorporate some Thai musical elements within, such as sliding tone, grace notes, and fragile sounds. Finally, the piece is built around Toerist in eigen's imaginary landscapes and a combination of melodious and lyrical elements from Thai music. Piyawat Louilarpprasert

Otto Wanke: Scattered views (2022)
On one hand, this short composition reflects spectral concepts, whereby a spectral analysis of selected field recordings made on island of Schokland were used as the sound material. On the other hand, the phenomenon of the artistic deconstructionism is apparent in the structure of this piece. Through this deconstruction, I isolate particular elements of the spectrum of the field recordings (mostly nature sounds of the island Schokland), such as melodic cells and spectral rhythms, which are then played in a loop. In the process of fragmentation and repetition, floating musical
constructions emerge, in which the original spectrum is divided and again reassembled. Otto Wanke

Rens Tienstra: Schokland Prayer (2022)
I was inspired by several things: the constant theme for fishing villages regarding the uncertainty of those left behind, whether their loved ones would return safely to shore; the silhouette of Schokland that still lies there frozen in time and landscape; the melancholic image of 'No way back' on Schokland itself; and the line-up of Ensemble Black Pencil. The approach was a contemplative composition, a 'space for remembrance' that could be designed for all the individual instruments of the ensemble. It became a simple song where every note has to be there, in parallel lines and a bourdon. A kind of sincerity that seems appropriate for this former, quiet fishing island. Rens Tienstra

Ulrich Schultheiss: Birdsong (2022)
After the polder subsided, many bird species also found ideal living conditions. If you are quiet, you can also hear them.
Ulrich Schultheiss

Lucas Veeger: Geen weg terug (2022)
Geen weg terug – Vaarwel aan het eiland (No way back – Goodbye to the island). At Museum Schokland there is a sculpture by Kiny Copinga. Pictured is a woman with luggage closing a door behind her. The image is inspired by the evacuation of Schokland in 1859. In a melancholy way, the accordion tells about this woman, who is forced by a Royal Decree to leave hearth and home, never to return. Lucas Veeger