Claire M Singer & Sarah Davachi

The Orgelpark's three-day artistic research symposium on 'situational musicking' celebrates its first day tonight with a concert featuring two major composers/performers using organ sound in new ways: Claire M Singer and Sarah Davachi. 

 

 

Sarah Davachi (Canada) will play the Orgelpark's Van Straten organ, which transports the sound of organs back in the late 15th century to today. On Saturday June 6th, she will give a 'musical lecture' on how she creates music. Davachi will then share insights gathered in her dissertation 'From the Ruins of the Literal: Critical Organology, Timbre, and the Poetics of Affect'; Dr. Davachi was promoted in 2025 at the University of California in Los Angeles. Read more about her background, insights, and more on her website:

 

> https://www.sarahdavachi.com/.

 

 

Claire M Singer plays the Orgelpark's organs earlier today (the symposium opens at 16.00, access free) and presents works for the 4D-Sound system, installed at the Orgelpark for the occasion, tonight. This system comprises a multitude of omni-loudspeakers, flooding the space of the Orgelpark in ways comparable to the ones organs do.

Claire M Singer is the initiator and organizer of the festival Organ Reframed in London, with which she explored completely new ways of understanding the organ as a musical instrument. Its base is the Union Chapel in London. Singer's way of creating music with and on organs inspires many musickers coming from other musical realms than the religious and the classical to the organ. Check out her websites: 

 

> https://unionchapel.org.uk/venue/organ-reframed

> https://www.clairemsinger.com/

 

In October 2023, Claire M Singer flooded the main building of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam by playing the large organ in the main hall, with its doors wide open. A video impression is available on the website of VU's Chair Organ Studies (the Chair is an initiative of and sponsored by the Orgelpark):

 

> https://organstudies.com

 

 

 

The Orgelpark Situational Musicking Symposium is supported by 

> Richard Thomas Foundation

> Hamel Foundation