Monument (2011)

MONUMENT is a piece about a statue, standing on a pier on Terschelling, one of the isles in the Waddenzee, and where I grew up. This statue is meant for all the sailors from the island who died on sea. The statue is a woman, waiting for her husband to return from the sea, but standing there for more than a hundred years. Feelings of loneliness, salty sea wind, storm waves, thoughts crossing one’s mind, those are represented in the piece.

The first voice is the woman herself, the second voice is her echo, starting a duet, and finally becomes the thoughts behind the words. At the end the second voice remains and vanishes in the air. This all is being accompanied and commented by the wind (French Horn) and the sea (Percussion).