Keynote interview: Micha Hamel

The Bosch Requiem, commissioned by November Music, always surprises. Anno 2024, however, features a Requiem beyond our imagination. It takes the form of an installation, created by composer Micha Hamel and artist Jonas Staal (winner Prix de Rome 2023). Earth Workers Requiem/Jubilate commemorates (Requiem) and celebrates (Jubilate) our collective history and future as earth workers at a critical time for our current ecosystem. At New Music Conference, Micha Hamel talks about the road to and the final creation of this work. ‘Jonas and I ‘are one’ in this project,’ he already declared in a preliminary email exchange. A conversation about deep past and deep future and the place of us, fossils in the making, in it all.

Interviewer
Katarina Schul (De Balie, NL)
Katarina Schul is a programme maker and moderator at De Balie. She creates programmes on politics, art and society. Every six months, together with Live Journalism, she creates a journalistic theatre performance on themes such as youth crime, care for the elderly and energy transition. Before this, she worked for ANP, HLF8 and Stichting Verhalende Journalistiek, among others.

Bosch Requiem 2024 is being realised in collaboration with Noordbrabants Museum and will be on display there until 9 March 2025. During November Music, there will be live performances every day.

Photo Katarina by Michelle van der Plas