The Dutch vocal and visual artist shares an excerpt from the collaborative composition
“You can hear that I’m singing two tones and alternating between them very fast. And then the rest is the acoustics,” reveals Dutch vocalist Janneke van der Putten to Abi Bliss in The Wire 475, talking about her performance of “Acoustic reflections of one voice in a church”.
The piece – excerpted in this video filmed by Riccardo Santalucia – was composed by Peruvian musician Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta for an event at Sankt Gertrud Church in Cologne in 2015. Performed by van der Putten and recorded by Galarreta in one take without any effects or overdubs, the work now features on van der Putten’s debut solo album JNNK. “The ceiling [of the church] is irregular so there are a lot of reflections everywhere,” van der Putten explains. “It’s all intuitive; it’s not as though we were scientifically measuring the exact tones for resonance. It’s a very analogue way of listening, by trying it out.”
Read Abi Bliss’s feature about Janneke van der Putten inside The Wire 475, also available to read online with a Wire subscription.
