In Memories of Trees, Ragazze Quartet gives trees a musical voice. Memories of Trees fills the space in a magical world of music, light and projections.
The four members of the Ragazze Quartet play on string instruments made by different violin makers. Some of the instruments are centuries old, others were built in this century. But is there more to find out besides age, when we study the instrument’s sometimes rare woods?
The Ragazze delved into the origins of their string instruments and became fascinated by the treasure trove of memories stored in the annual rings of wood. Annual rings are like a historical document: they tell us more about the location of the tree, the climate, the influences of flora, man, etc. This information sometimes goes back hundreds or even thousands of years. A fascination for the role of trees as silent witnesses of history and guardians of our ecosystem was born.
This fascination takes shape in Memories of Trees, a full-length, visual concert for string quartet and electronics with the central question: how do trees remember man and his disruptive effect on the ecosystem?
See also on the website of Ragazze Quartet: Memories of Trees (EN) and Memories of Trees (NL)