Coen Oscar Polack will release his new cd Spectral Churches next month. The cd will feature a live recording of the work he performed during the StreetCanvas festival in Haarlem last year. The piece consists of treated recordings of the bells in the tower of the Grote of St. Bavokerk in Haarlem. Coen Polack will make a speech about this work and other topics related to his music on September 10 in the Janskerk in Haarlem, during an evening curated by StreetCanvas. His talk will start at 22:30. This Saturday he will perform a short laptop and saxophone set at Fatform in Amsterdam Kraaiennest. He will take the stage around 15:00. Others on the bill include Hakki Takki, DJ Lonely and Bertin. We hope to see you there, it will be fun!
This Thursday Coen Oscar Polack will perform a brand new site-specific work at the StreetCanvas festival for media arts in Haarlem, The Netherlands. The work entitled Spectral Churches (Unchartered Territory I) is a musical performance for three laptop musicians, a carillionist and the mechanical bell sequence called De Damiaatjes that is specific for the Grote of St. Bavokerk in Haarlem. The music consist of (pre-recorded and live) bell sounds from the church tower and it will build on the 26-minute sequence of De Damiaatjes. For this performance Coen will be joined by Herman Wilken (from Hydrus) and Roald van Dillewijn (from Puin + Hoop) on laptops and Bernard Winsemius on the church carillion. The performance at the Oude Groenmarkt in Haarlem starts at 2100h sharp and entrance is free.
The first edition of StreetCanvas will feature a specially commissioned audiowork by Coen Oscar Polack. The site-specific work Spectral Churches (Unchartered Territory I) will be performed on the evening of October 7 as part of the opening night program of StreetCanvas, a festival in which artists from multiple disciplines will use the city of Haarlem as a ‘canvas’. More information to follow soon.
