we were sitting in his room

Van der Schoot composed a 3,5 minute long colloage based on a fragment from “Der Leiermann” - a performance by Dick Raaijmakers in which he is hopelessly trying to manually play back a cut and spliced tape with the song by Franz Schubert at the correct speed - to perform her own version of  Alvin Lucier’s piece “i am sititing in a room” in the Arnold Schönbergzaal at the old conservatory building.  Just a few weeks earlier Alvin Lucier had passed away. Van der Schoot created a caleidoscopic good bye ritual, sending off three iconic male composers, while honoring the location and her memories of the place.

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^{Image by petra van der schoot. Petra is sitting and standing at the laptop bottom right. Aeldrik Pander is sitting bottom left. Kristin Norderval is sitting in the middle with a cap in front of her face. Running around are anne wellmer and petra van der schoot.}

performed by Petra van der Schoot with a laptop at the edge of the stage, a single Philips loudspeaker on stage and a microphone at approximately 2 meters distance from the loudspeaker.  recorded binaurally with a Soundman OKM microphone by Kristin Norderval who was sitting at 10 meters distance from the loudspeaker on the floor of the hall, and additionally with two wireless Rode Lavalier mics at either corner at the very back of the hall and a Zoom H3VR ambisonics recorder on the floor. mixed by anne wellmer. many thanks to Aeldrik Pander.

^{back corner of the Arnold Schönbergzaal. video still by anne wellmer}