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Track III: 2017 Launch The Turn Club

Dane Harris — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:18:01 +0000

2017 Launch The Turn Club

In September 2017 I started The Turn Club. This brings together my ambitions to use artificial power for major societal challenges. It is a club where art professionals, agents of change and practical idealists share their dreams, plans and ideas with each other, increase their visibility and bring their innovation to new places.

After all, society craves new ideals. Creative and artistic professionals can, with their with imagination, style and research, play a significant role in major challenges we face today. Unfortunately, these creators and connectors often work project by project and isolated from each other.

The Turn Club tackles social issues with an artist’s mindset. We show what art does with examples, lectures and articles. We connect, by forging bonds between art and important issues and we help each other to make a turn from result-oriented work to a sharing and connecting process.

View the website of The Turn Club.

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Track I: 2017 Four Drifting Seasons in Carnegie Hall

Dane Harris — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 10:38:11 +0000

2017 Four Drifting Seasons in Carnegie Hall

Op the 19th of September 2017, I was invited to contribute to the Concert for a Sustainable Planet at Carnegie Hall, which was part of a UN conference on sustainability. Here, with a children’s choir, I made the global temperature rise audible by converting measurements from the last 137 years into sounds. With Four Drifting Seasons, the story of climate change gets a physical, audible form. This offers a different perspective than what you get from the usual graphs. Can music increase the awareness of rising temperatures in this way? I dare not say it, but I do want to invite everyone to experience this piece by singing it yourself. For this I have developed an app for smartphones together with Marco Alkema, Kilian Elbers and Jan Driessen. This makes the performance of this piece possible for everyone.

View the performance of Four Drifting Seasons in Carnegie Hall.

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Track II: 2017 Musical Postcards in Carnegie Hall

Dane Harris — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 10:24:59 +0000

2017 Musical Postcards in Carnegie Hall

How do you convey the story of a Syrian refugee to a large audience without emphasising victimisation?

By asking young refugees to transform their dream into a piece of music, then working with high school students to expand those compositions and having them performed in the most prestigious concert halls, we can break the stereotype of a child seeking refuge. We emphasise the imagination, beauty and openness for the future and thus build direct contact and exchange between people in a vulnerable situation and others who live in a privileged position.
Musical Postcards is, for me, a new way to view the role of a composer within society. Not (always) doing everything yourself, but designing models for the creative power of others and telling the most important and urgent stories of our time. It is wonderful to work together with musicians such as the New York Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Philharmonie Zuidnederland and many others!

View the performance in Carnegie Hall.

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‘Zo Klinkt Klimaatverandering’ – Radio 1, De Ochtend

Marloes — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 23:58:04 +0000

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Track III: 1992 Future plans in Diever

Marloes — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:17:35 +0000

1992 Future plans in Diever

In Diever, there is a famous open air theatre, where Shakespeare plays are performed every summer. It was amazing to be a part of this world, to act and make music.

I hatched a plan for my future: become famous with my own rock band, then take over my Dad’s flute making business or teach music and theatre at a Rudolf Steiner school.

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Track III: 1998 “Plankgas”

Marloes — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:16:03 +0000

1998 ‘Plankgas’

Why are all the different art forms so strictly segregated?

While studying at the conservatoire in Amsterdam, I actively sought to collaborate with students from other faculties. I came up with a monthly scratch night at a theatre: Plankgas (Full speed ahead). It brought together the students’ most unusual work and resulted in communication and collaboration between theatre, dance, film and music. Every night was an adventure.

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Track III: 2000 Sound and Space

Marloes — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:13:10 +0000

2000 Sound and Space

By spreading musicians throughout a large building and placing dancers among the audience, sound, space and people came together into one musical experience. The performance was called La vie n’est pas un chocolat and was performed several times in special locations.

Watch Atrium – wind instruments and dancers in the city hall of The Hague

Watch Kalenderpanden – world of sound in an old warehouse

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Track III: 1999 Dialogue between nature, blast furnaces, percussion and wind instruments

Marloes — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:11:36 +0000

1999 Dialogue between nature, blast furnaces, percussion and wind instruments

I created a piece of music that was played in the dunes, under the smoke of the blast furnaces.

Massive steel art works were used as percussion, together with other iron objects, like oil drums. The audience walked through a landscape of sound. The members of the marching band Door Samenwerking Sterk stood dotted around the area. Fire lit the performance while a light breeze blew the whole thing to bits, which happened to sound pretty good.

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Track III: 2001 A symphony for Chef, DJ, Grinder and Marching Band

Marloes — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:09:58 +0000

2001 A symphony for Chef, DJ, Grinder and Marching Band

It was my final composition exam for the conservatoire, but the committee did not want to come. I had arranged to use a shipyard, a marching band, a string orchestra, a rock band, a DJ, dancers and chefs. From the early evening into the next morning, live music, electronic beats and soundscapes merged together.

Watch a recording of the concert here

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Track III: 2002 A Night Life Adventure

Marloes — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:08:36 +0000

2002 A Night Life Adventure

In Paradiso and other night clubs, I organised nights in which performances, food, dance and DJ merged into one according to a tight schedule, creating a complete experience for the senses. It seemed to hang together loosely and fluidly, but it was actually very tightly planned.

Chefs, dancers, DJs and even masseurs and hair dressers were involved and worked together with countless musicians. From marching band to string quartet, from Scandinavian folk singers to Slovenian hard rock bands, from children’s choir to recorder orchestra – every minute was carefully plotted, but for the uninitiated visitor, the night seemed like a spontaneous confluence of performances, wisps of music, poetry, taste and smell.

Watch the videos of La nuit n’est pas un chocolat here.

Some news items:

Het Parool, 9 Maart 2004
Sp!ts, 30 december 2004
NRC Handelsblad, 31 december 2004
Telegraaf, 31 december 2004
Brabants Dagblad, 9 maart 2005

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