With WOTH (Weighing of the Heart), the highly individual musician Liesa Van der Aa is seeking a way through the moral chaos of our polyphonous world
With WOTH (Weighing of the Heart), the highly individual musician Liesa Van der Aa is seeking a way through the moral chaos of our polyphonous world. Judgements whizz through the virtual air, but the voice that once dictated the boundary between good and evil has fallen forever silent. Liesa expresses a generation’s search for answers and structures against a backdrop of constant excess. What is
a good life? She found the inspiration for this first creation of her own in an ancient Egyptian ritual that has a moving simplicity. After death, each individual’s heart is put in the balance opposite the feather of truth: too heavy, too light, or in equilibrium? The Egyptian Book of the Dead provides the visual background for an overwhelming musical performance.
Liesa’s angular music balances between fragility and bombast, the individual and the masses: one voice, one violin, eight musicians, a 42-voice chorus. Video and animated film by Frederik Jassogne and Guy Cassiers.
Credits
- Sound design • Diederik De Cock
- Scenography | Video • Afreux Beeldfabriek / Liesa van der Aa / Guy Cassiers / Frederic Jassogne
- Composition | Concept • Liesa van der Aa
- Texts • Liesa van der Aa
- Musical adaptation • Boris Wilsdorf / Peter Spaepen / Hannes D'Hoine / Ephraïm Cielen / Sjoerd Bruil / Jon Birdsong / Lambert Colson / Nathan Wouters / Liesa van der Aa
- Musicians • Hannes D'Hoine / Ephraïm Cielen / Sjoerd Bruil / Jon Birdsong / Lambert Colson / Nathan Wouters / Arne Leurentop / Liesa van der Aa
Concept & director: Liesa Van der Aa
Design & video: Liesa Van der Aa, Hangaar (Frederik Jassogne & Bart Moens), Guy Cassiers, Afreux beeldfabriek
Composition 42 judges: Peter Spaepen
Composition Chapter I: Liesa Van der Aa I Composition Chapter II: Liesa Van der Aa & Daniella Strasfögel I Composition Chapter III: Liesa Van der Aa, Katrin Lohman & Hannes d' Hoine
Text: Chapter I & II: Liesa Van der Aa I Tekst Chapter III: Liesa Van der Aa & Katrin Lohmann
Arrangements & musical performance: Liesa Van der Aa, Katrin Lohmann, Hannes D’Hoine, Ephraïm Cielen, Sjoerd Bruil, Jon Birdsong, Lambert Colson, Arne Leurentop, Nathan Wouters
Toth: Johan Leysen
Costume design: Anja Perisic
Light design and technical coordination: Ken Hioco
Sound design: Roel Snellebrand
Monitoring: Wim De Clerck
Set design: Joé Ageman
Production: Ruth Sarens en Annik Laruelle
| Location | Dates | Hour | |
|---|---|---|---|
| deSingel Antwerpen (Antwerpen) +32 3 248 28 28 www.desingel.be | 4/12/2014 5/12/2014 6/12/2014 | 20:00 20:00 20:00 | |
| Handelsbeurs Gent (Gent) +32 9 265 91 60 http://www.handelsbeurs.be | 24/1/2015 | 20:15 | |
| Kaaitheater (Brussel) +32 2 201 58 58 www.kaaitheater.be | 25/2/2015 | 20:30 | |
| CC Hasselt (Hasselt) +32 11 22 99 31 www.ccha.be | 10/4/2015 | 20:00 | |
| Concertgebouw Brugge (Brugge) +32 50 47 69 99 www.concertgebouw.be | 15/4/2015 | 20:00 |