organ field studies

Every  organ all over the world is worth to be asked about her character. No organ is too exhausted, too untuned, too poor.

Every organ can become a machine (with breath and bellow and abstracts moving back and forth) to achieve miracles and wonderful visions – like the puppet and machine in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tales. For me organs generally gain personal faces. I began to spent time with “her”, to perform together with “her”, to discover the special character of every single organ.

Even in stillness (maybe just in stillness) you may look at an organ when there is no sound. Look at the beautiful stops made of wood and (often) enamel, at the beautiful inscriptions on the stops promising awe and wonder.

 

  • #1 Karl Göckel, St Peter, Krefeld (01.04.2025). duration: 7’30“.
    Die Orgel der Orgelbaufirma Karl Göckel in Krefeld-Uerdingen:

 

  • #2 Fischer & Krämer, St Thomas Morus, Krefeld (14.04.2025). duration: 22’10“.

  • #3 Stahlhuth, St Paul, Krefeld (15.04.2025). duration: 11’33“.

  • #4 Stahlhuth, St Paul, Krefeld (15.04.2025). duration: 12’57“.

  • #5 nameless, St Stephen’s, Bristol (25.04.2025). duration: 14’21“.

  • #6 Father Smith, St James’s, London (25.04.2025). duration: 32’56“.