Godspeed in 4/4 Time

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Stiftung St. Matthäus, the St. Matthäus-Kirche will be transformed into a musical instrument: Artist William Engelen will install a curtain of 366 metal sound tubes all around the church below the galleries. Each of the 366 sound tubes, which visualise a graphic score with their different lengths, stands for one day of the year, creating a room-filling sounding calendar of the church year. Both, musicians, who will play a composition by Engelen, and visitors, can play the instrument and thus make the church and the year resound. A game with time and eternity: sound rhythms of the days, weeks and months, everyday days and holidays, church year and calendar year, and the longing for eternity sound together.