Compositions on the Sound of Bells
Three Swiss churches situated along the
Basel-Jura-DreiSeen Weg,
part of the European Saint James
ways
What is there in the sound of the bells? Compositions on the
sound of bells for four part mixed choir,
a new access to our
basic values and emotions
Karin Merazzi-Jacobson
Can our basic values in a fundamentally changed, multi-cultural
and secularised society still be transmitted, awakened or
revivified through chiming church bells and through music? What
significance has the sound of church bells to modern man? Peace?
Peace disturbed? Fatherland? Foreignness? Community? Exclusion?
Responsibility? Freedom? Habit? Memory? History?
In the interdisciplinary
project "What is there in the sound of the bells?" I
have turned these questions into music trying to actualise them
and to make them accessible out of an artistic and emotional
perspective. A first realisation of the project (document
in German) was inspired by the bells of the churches of Ligerz,
Twann, and Bienne. It took place in 2010 at the
" The
1000 Questions' Night" in Bienne.
