Zywa

Pantomime-players:

none of them dares to play yet --

because the drum beats.



Pantomiemorkest:	Pantomim-Musik:
niemand durft te gaan spelen --	keiner traut sich zu spielen --
omdat de trom slaat.	weil die Trommel schlägt.

Poem S1379
Amsterdam, 2022-04-03
No movement (Jan van de Putte) - 2019
Composition "Keine Bewegung", performed by Orkest de Ereprijs and Katharina Gross (cello) on April 3^rd, 2022 in the Organpark
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Power: demonstration
Composer: Van de Putte, Jan

This caterwauling

night after night, good heavens --

it is spring again!



Dat kattengejank	Dieses Gegröle
de hele nacht, verdorie --	jede Nacht, herrjemine --
het is weer lente!	schon wieder Frühling!

Poem S1378
Amsterdam, 2022-04-03
Without a Pause (Jan van de Putte) - 2020
Composition "Sans Pause", 45 minute version, performed by Joseph Puglia (violin) on April 3^rd, 2022 in the Organpark
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Music: sound, Spring
Composer: Van de Putte, Jan

There are playful feints

between the heavy attacks --

A real air combat.



Schijnbewegingen	Leichte Manöver
tussen de aanvallen door --	zwischen schweren Angriffen --
Een echt luchtgevecht.	Ein echter Luftkampf.

Poem H3253
Amsterdam, 2022-04-03
Where? (Jan van de Putte) - 2022
Jan Hage plays "Wo?!?" ("Where?!?", Jan van de Putte) on the Utopa Baroque organ in the Organpark, April 3^rd, 2022
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Playing: fight
Tribute to: Van De Putte, Jan

You have to play out

time to experience it --

it is so fleeting.



Je moet tijd rekken	Man muss Zeit schinden,
als je tijd ervaren wilt --	wenn man Zeit erleben will --
zo vluchtig is het.	so flüchtig ist sie.

Poem S1377
Amsterdam, 2022-04-03
Compositions by Jan van de Putte, performed in the Organpark on April 3^rd, 2022
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Time: passing
Composer: Van de Putte, Jan

The clouds are playing

light and twilight with the hall --

the play-act of time.



De wolken spelen	Die Wolken spielen
licht en schemer met de zaal --	Licht und Zwielicht mit dem Saal --
het spel van de tijd.	der Spieltrieb der Zeit.

Poem H3252
Amsterdam, 2022-04-03
Daylight in the Organpark concert hall
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Time: passing

They're hopping around

in the big brown cello box:

the twittering birds.



Ze huppelen rond	Herumgehüpfe
in de kast van de cello:	innen im Cello-Korpus:
tjilpende vogels.	zwitschernde Vögel.

Poem H3251
Amsterdam, 2022-04-03
Touch (Jan van de Putte)
Watch out, Katharina! (Jan van de Putte) - 2022
Katharina Gross (cello) plays "Aanraken" ("Touch", 2022, Jan van de Putte) and "Vorsicht, Katharina!" ("Watch out, Katharina!", 2019, Jan van de Putte), in the Organpark on April 3rd, 2022
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: sound
Tribute to: Van De Putte, Jan

The little brown crown

of the cellist curls a scroll --

on top of the neck.



Het bruine kroontje	Die braune Krone
van de celliste krult om --	der Cellistin rollt sich auf --
boven aan de hals.	oben an dem Hals.

Poem H3250
Amsterdam, 2022-04-03
Katharina Gross plays the cello in the Organpark, on April 3rd, 2022
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Perception: critical

The whiplashes pop

my bare buttocks groaning red --

insatiable red.



Zweepslagen knallen	Die Peitschen knallen
blote billen kreunend rood --	bloßes Gesäß stöhnend rot --
Onverzadigbaar.	unersättlich rot.

Poem H3198
Amsterdam, 2022-02-12
Breathing _ Choir : [ VxUxS ] (Branimir tivi?) - 2022
Livecoding performance, February 12^th, 2022, in the Organpark
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Pleasure
Composer: Stivic, Branimir

Sharply squeaking chicks,

the sliding flight of the storks --

to the sky-high nest.



Piepende jongen,	Quietschende Jungen,
glijvlucht van de ooievaars --	langer Gleitflug der Störche --
naar het hoge nest.	in das hohe Nest.

Poem H3197
Amsterdam, 2022-02-12
psalm from the machine (Rachel Devorah Wood Rome) - 2022
"psalter ex machina" ("psalm from the machine"), after Psalm 116 by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (SwWV 313), performed in the Organpark on February 12^th, 2022
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Flying: stork, Spring
Composer: Wood Rome, Rachel D.

A row of windchests

rattles the break of the day --

a bell rings springtide.



Een reeks windlades	Windladen klappern
kleppert ochtendschemering --	den Tagesanbruch, Glocken --
een bel luidt lente.	läuten den Frühling.

Poem H3196
Amsterdam, 2022-02-12
psalm from the machine (Rachel Devorah Wood Rome) - 2022
"psalter ex machina" ("psalm from the machine"), after Psalm 116 by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (SwWV 313), performed in the Organpark on February 12^th, 2022
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Morning, Spring
Composer: Wood Rome, Rachel D.

Zywa Everything is blue, and pink

I squat against a high wall
hands in my head
slide to twelve

I'm there, I'm not there
Smoke, journey, resting place
full moon

Buzzing, six, sixteen
times I come in
water reflections

Rattling wallpaper
Thumb after thumb I put
a stamp upon the days

Winds blow past
everything is blue
yes, everything

sharp blue
and pink in the world
of the children

Poem 4313
Amsterdam, 2022-02-13
Live-coded visual (eerie_ear) - 2022
February 12^th, 2022, in the Organpark
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Life: experience
Composer: Pappalardo, Sebastian

Zywa Songless Song

Was I waked
by rattling buckets
like ticking rain

against the roar
the whistling inhalation
and the musing sighs

of the organ monster?
Curved pipes blow me
into space, everything shifts

until I no longer have a hold
and my body dissolves in trance
between wringing sounds

Compact like a saucer
I swing increasingly heavy
through octaves of space debris

with withheld breath
looking forward to the redeeming
light of the eternally distant

gravity, which will
melt and burn me
if I ever arrive

A false siren song lures me
with harmonies in which
the dashboard lights up

my thoughts clear again
to chart a course
and go away

from this depression
as if there are destinations
Hope and desire

tumble through the stardust
like the splashing water
from the sources of the Moldau

The monster roars again -
Maddening at the risk
of bursting asunder

and dispersing
in debris, ticking
against the silence

like the end of a downpour
But after the calm masses roll
towering over it, ever

I float
between dream and deed
Sleeplessly

I babble a bit
wading in acquiescence
Songless

Poem 4297
Amsterdam, 2022-02-06
Songlessness (Maxim Shalygin) - 2022
Performed by the Amstel Quartet (saxophones) and Una Cintina (organ), on February 5^th, 2022 in the Organpark
Curved pipes: saxophones
"Vltava" ("The Moldau", 1874, Bed?ich Smetana)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Journey: in the spirit
Composer: Shalygin, Maxim

Zywa Groaning, I hold on

In the whirlpools, people puff
and scream for help
The spectators whisper

the last gossip
until the poets hand
shoves them away, looking

for the right tone
He's just messing about
because the Way is the Truth

of all votes against
Everyone gags for meaning
in a livable rhythm

Groaning, I hold on
They are talking about me
I hear it in the breaks

This is how it will go on
with an occasional blow
hoping it is a hit

It is fiddling and tinkering
keep breathing calmly
and not short-circuiting

Poem 4217
Amsterdam, 2021-12-12
bird from the chimney (Hansko Visser) - 2021
"kéménymadár" ("bird from the chimney"), 2021, Hansko Visser [1966], in collaboration with Lucio Tasca [1993], Reinier van Houdt [1964] and Jasna Veli?kovi? [1974]; inspired by Ernö Király
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Life: effort, burden
Tribute to: Visser, Hansko

Defenceless I sink

away in the sweet feelings --

of my wishful dreams.



Weerloos zak ik weg	Wehrlos sinke ich
in de zoete gevoelens --	in den süßen Gefühlen --
van mijn wensdromen.	meiner Wunschträume.

Poem S1292
Amsterdam, 2021-12-02
Sweet memory of Jesus (Caioni Codex) - 1670
Composition "Jesu dulcis memoria"
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Love: romance
Tribute to: Caioni, Johannes

A big party, we

laugh and sing, louder, wilder,

and more and more -- free.



Groot feest, we lachen	Große Party, wir
en zingen, luider, wilder --	lachen, singen, laut und wild --
vrijer en vrijer.	und immer freier.

Poem H3135
Amsterdam, 2021-12-01
How beautiful is life (Roderik de Man) - 2020
"Bella la vita" ("How beautiful is life", 2020, Roderik de Man), played on mechanical organ (musix box) The Busy Drone (December 1st, 2021) and on spinet (Ere Lievonen, December 2nd, 2021)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Party: liberty
Composer: De Man, Roderik

Zywa Still slumbering

Still slumbering I let me
pull into the day
I hear, there is not much
exterior world yet
No twittering birds

no background noise
only the square of the window
on the curtain getting clearer
it shines through
my eyelids

I feel my feet
They are awake, I turn
around, my legs
don't want to
get out of bed yet

Poem 4147
Amsterdam, 2021-11-26
Generations around me (Celia Swart) - 2021
Composition "Generations around me", performed by recorder ensemble Brisk in the Organpark on November 25th, 2021
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Sleep
Composer: Swart, Celia

Zywa The inside of the city

Inexperienced travellers get lost
so soon in unknown regions
They are tempted
by alleys and signals
and go down the stairs

to the inside
ignorant where they are, somewhere
for real or just romping around a little
in their heads, turned crazy
crazier craziest by their senses

which surround them with walls
that they want to touch
to know if they are hard
or that they can float
right through them at a gallop

They are looking for a hand, a body
They want to talk, fight if necessary
with someone who will grab their axis
to stop the monologue
that shrills into their ears

Poem 4126
Amsterdam, 2021-11-21
[1] Moriana, [2] Four Scenes: Monologue (Aspasia Nasopoulou) - 2017
Composition "Moriana" (2017), for cello
Composition "Four Scenes: Monologue" (2021), for voice and organ
Prose poems "Le città invisibili" ("The invisible cities", 1972, Italo Calvino)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Journey: on the way
Tribute to: Calvino, Italo
Composer: Nasopoulou, Aspasia

Zywa Travelogue

I saw a circle of light
soundlessly pierce a wall
A hole to get lost in

Everything changes there
The earth doesn't stand still
and the sky is chasing, fleeing

from me, I start a new notebook, quick
quick, before things are gone
and I no longer know if
they were ever there
and then will wander

in my memories
Your fantasy is proof
of the truth of my stories

You know the language I speak
I describe to you where I was
as if you were there yourself

Poem 4124
Amsterdam, 2021-11-21
[1] Four Scenes: Dialogue Two, [2] Andria (Aspasia Nasopoulou) - 2021
Composition "Four Scenes: Dialogue Two" (2021), for voice and organ
Composition "Andria" (2012), for piano four hands
Prose poems "Le città invisibili" ("The invisible cities", 1972, Italo Calvino)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Stories: experience
Tribute to: Calvino, Italo
Composer: Nasopoulou, Aspasia

Zywa Excited

The facts are airy
They move through each other
and are searching for a shape
They smear black as white
in my eyes

I hear echo after echo
in thin air, dark blue
like the night, illusions
in my mind rebound
until they spin as a hurricane

I don't feel what is there
but what can be felt
and my thoughts run
after it till I fall down
and do not know how to lie

in the images of the city
in which I want to return
to touch its marvels
which exist everywhere
that I am

Poem 4122
Amsterdam, 2021-11-21
Ersilia (Aspasia Nasopoulou) - 2018
Composition for tenor recorder and electronics
Prose poems "Le città invisibili" ("The invisible cities", 1972, Italo Calvino) about Venice
"Il Milione" ("The Million [Marvels]", 1300, Rustichello da Pisa) about Marco Polo (1254-1324)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Illusions: neuropathy
Tribute to: Calvino, Italo; Da Pisa, Rustichello
Composer: Nasopoulou, Aspasia
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk

Zywa Invisible cities

There are certainly people
living in fantastic cities
there, behind the mountains

Houses piled up
towers sevenfold
in the river, unworldly

rich with gold
which even upstream
silts upon the stones

where butterflies find flower pots
block after block, and leaves
for the caterpillars, their colours

a wonderful pattern
a familiar mystery
which the oracle does not explain

It is everywhere
if ever it should be lost
in the city of floods

and subsiding quays, which
in their collapse, can take none
of the wonders

Poem 4120
Amsterdam, 2021-11-21
Eudoxia & Olinda (Aspasia Nasopoulou) - 2012
Composition for piano
Prose poems "Le città invisibili" ("The invisible cities", 1972, Italo Calvino) about Venice
"Il Milione" ("The Million [Marvels]", 1300, Rustichello da Pisa) about Marco Polo (1254-1324)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Wonder / Marvel, Venezia
Tribute to: Calvino, Italo; Da Pisa, Rustichello
Composer: Nasopoulou, Aspasia

Zywa Exploration

Are we there?
     Yes, we are. Listen!
Do I know this?
     Yes, here it is
How do you know?
     Listen! Then you will know
But what do you hear?

     The organ of the city
     Watch that man!
     His movements
     The gymnastics
     The red clothes
     It is obvious
     Do you notice?

Why . . . ?
     The marvels!
I can see that man
     He is dancing the city
Yes, he dances well
     The marvels of my city
So we are there?

Poem 4118
Amsterdam, 2021-11-21
Four Scenes: Dialogue One (Aspasia Nasopoulou) - 2021
Composition for voice and organ
Prose poems "Le città invisibili" ("The invisible cities", 1972, Italo Calvino) about Venice
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Home: bygone / homesickness
Tribute to: Calvino, Italo
Composer: Nasopoulou, Aspasia

I'm thinking my grief

more than I can express it --

Save me! Redeem me!



Ik denk mijn verdriet	Ich denke mein Leid
meer dan ik het uiten kan --	mehr als dass ich's äußern kann --
Red me! Verlos me!	Hilfe! Rette mich!

Poem H3128
Amsterdam, 2021-11-14
God is my refuge (Calliope Tsoupaki) - 2016
Psalm 61 - "O Voithos Theos Imon"
Performed in the Organpark on November 14^th, 2021
Ad Parnassum (chamber choir) and Geerten Liefting (organ)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Sadness: express
Composer: Tsoupaki, Calliope

Little waterfalls

along my long steps, hear this --

music fantasy.



Watervalletjes	Wasserfällchen ent-
langs mijn lange passen: een --	lang meiner langen Schritte:
muziekfantasie.	Musik-Fantasie.

Poem H3125
Amsterdam, 2021-11-12
Through the looking glass - 275 VWB (Hans Koolmees) - 2021
The beginning of the retrograde Fantasie in G-Dur (JS Bach)
Performed in the Organpark on November 12^th, 2021
Jelte Althuis (bass clarinet) and Henny Heikens (organ)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: playful
Composer: Koolmees, Hans

Air: always moving,

whether you listen or not --

your ears will vibrate.



Lucht beweegt altijd,	Die Luft bewegt sich,
of je nu luistert of niet --	ob man zuhört oder nicht --
oren trillen mee.	Ohren vibrieren.

Poem H3120
Amsterdam, 2021-11-06
Solo VIII - Air (Claudio F. Baroni) - 2016
Performed on het Utopa orgel in the Organpark on November 6^th, 2021
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Senses
Composer: Baroni, Claudio F.

A few single words

can say more than sentences --

if there are pauses.



Wat losse woorden	Einzelne Wörter
zeggen soms meer dan zinnen --	sagen mal mehr als Sätze --
als er pauzes zijn.	wenn es Pausen gibt.

Poem H3119
Amsterdam, 2021-11-06
Confessions #4 (Claudio F. Baroni) - 2021
Composition for quintet, four exciter speakers and tape
Performed in the Organpark on November 6^th, 2021; texts by The Barton Workshop
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Language: communication
Composer: Baroni, Claudio F.

The incantations

in the dark are the disguise --

of true confessions.



De bezweringen	Die Beschwörungen
in het donker verbergen --	im Dunkeln sind die Tarnung --
bekentenissen.	von Bekenntnisse.

Poem H3118
Amsterdam, 2021-11-06
Confessions #3 (Claudio F. Baroni) - 2021
Composition for quintet, four exciter speakers and tape
Performed in the Organpark on November 6^th, 2021; texts by The Barton Workshop
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Secret
Composer: Baroni, Claudio F.

With a background buzz

people may start whispering --

Their secrets of heart?



In geroezemoes	In Stimmengewirr
fluisteren de mensen soms --	flüstern die Menschen manchmal --
Hun hartsgeheimen?	Herzgeheimnisse?

Poem H3117
Amsterdam, 2021-11-06
Confessions #2 (Claudio F. Baroni) - 2021
Composition for quintet, four exciter speakers and tape
Performed in the Organpark on November 6^th, 2021; texts by The Barton Workshop
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Contact: closeness
Composer: Baroni, Claudio F.

Tap - Tap - so softly

that it calls my attention --

and holds it captive.



Tik - Tik - Tik, zo zacht	Leises Ticken zieht
dat het juist mijn aandacht trekt --	meine Aufmerksamkeit an --
en gevangen houdt.	und fesselt sie dann.

Poem H3116
Amsterdam, 2021-11-06
Confessions #1 (Claudio F. Baroni) - 2021
Composition for quintet, four exciter speakers and tape
Performed in the Organpark on November 6^th, 2021; texts by The Barton Workshop
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Danger: hidden
Composer: Baroni, Claudio F.

On unequal legs,

the musicians are dancing --

fire out of the floor.



Musici dansen	Musiker tanzen
op ongelijke benen --	auf ihren Hinkebeinen --
vuur uit de stenen.	Funken vom Boden.

Poem H3069
Amsterdam, 2021-10-16
Celebration (Theo Loevendie) - 2001
Composition "Bayram", performed in the Organpark on October 16th, 2021
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Music: dance, rhythm, Self-expression (creative)
Composer: Loevendie, Theo

In Café Welling,

musicians are slaloming --

around each other.



In Café Welling	Im Café spielen
slalommen de muzikanten --	Musiker lustig Slalom --
speels om elkaar heen.	umeinander rum.

Poem H3068
Amsterdam, 2021-10-16
WWW in W (Theo Loevendie) - 2021
Performed in the Organpark on October 16th, 2021 and January 25th, 2025
Jazz in Café Welling near the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: playful
Composer: Loevendie, Theo

The torrent tumbling

friskily over itself --

soppies the valley.



De beek buitelt speels	Der Wildbach taumelt
over zichzelf heen de berg af --	über sich selbst hinunter --
en drassigt het dal.	und sumpfigt das Tal.

Poem H3059
Amsterdam, 2021-10-10
Whispering (Felipe Waller) - 2021
"Murmures" - III, V and VI, performed on October 10th, 2021 in the Organpark, by Idske Bakker and Liesbeth Vreeburg
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Life: energy
Composer: Waller, Felipe

Zywa Into myself

The rippling sings
for me, only I
am here, it plays
with itself and it sings

so beautifully and clearly
for me, everything
caresses me with colours
and is loving me

it exults and dances
charms
above and below
disappear

I exist, I can no longer
think, satisfied I am
sinking into the scent
of my seed

dressed in the spotty light
of rocking water
I am merging with you
and you sing, you sing!

Poem 2732
Amsterdam, 2020-02-29
Pipe dreams (Mary Jane Leach) - 1989
Narcissus
Gerrie Meijers plays "Pipe dreams"
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Love: for yourself
Composer: Leach, Mary Jane

Zywa The Roarer

The storm is still there
moldy white around the holes
of the filigree that was
once a powerful building

deeply weathered and pulverised
with hard droppings and kapok
in the corner, a dead fly

Shards tinkle under
my shoes, the remains
sloshing rhythmically away
from my footsteps

Everything falls prey
to the daily hunger
of the light, the sun

which smears honey
on the old stones
and fertilizes the cracks
sends spiders, makes birds

whistle springs
until what was there
is invisible

Poem 2695
Amsterdam, 2020-02-09
Old (Franz Danksagmüller) - 2020
Rudra = "The Roarer", the Storm(god), who for fear is addressed with the title "Shiva" = "Well-being"
Performance of "Dávny" ("Old") by Franz Danksagmüller (organ, electronics, image, sounds) and Maria Hemmleb (film editor) in the Organpark in Amsterdam on Saturday, February 8^th, 2020
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Time: temporality
Composer: Danksagmueller, Franz

Zywa Nativity of the Lord

Roaring hot, the sun is pulsating
as the heart of our lives
splashing sparks upon the earth

Threats scourge the people
battles break through the screens
boon and doom lash out
laying tombstones of black lava

All hell breaks loose
from grumbling depths, the water
burning broadly under a high flame

which explodes into a super sun
which shouts and fills the sky
twirls and scorches the earth
The End and The Beginning

Poem 2545
Amsterdam, 2019-12-16
The Nativity of the Lord(Olivier Messiaen) - 1935
Composition "La nativité du Seigneur"
Animation by Marcel Wierckx (based on the nine pastel drawings by Charles Blanc-Gatti in 1936)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Apocalypse
Tribute to: Wierckx, Marcel
Composer: Messiaen, Olivier

Zywa All colours within me

With star fish, the comet sparks
a swarm of sperm cells, they shoot
to the earth in my belly

Fertilised a thousand times, I roll
on waves welling up in a rain of light
a firework of happiness

My body dissolves in the deep blue
where far away the stars twinkle forever
A soul of fiery tongues licks
a new body inside me

and the world tilts in all colours
in my kaleidoscopic eyes
while thin, tall angels dance
between the sky-high pillars

Poem 2543
Amsterdam, 2019-12-15
The Nativity of the Lord (Olivier Messiaen) - 1935
Composition "La nativité du Seigneur"
Animation by Marcel Wierckx (based on the nine pastel drawings by Charles Blanc-Gatti in 1936)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Body: procreation
Tribute to: Wierckx, Marcel
Composer: Messiaen, Olivier

The whole world vibrates,

with blood or not, everything --

has a pulsing heart.



Heel de wereld trilt,	Das Weltall vibriert,
met of zonder bloed, alles --	mit Blut, ohne Blut, alles --
heeft een kloppend hart.	hat ein Herz das schlägt.

Poem H2640
Amsterdam, 2019-11-30
Phase Patterns for four electric organs (Steve Reich) - 1970
Composition, performed on November 30th, 2019 by Roman Bestion (synthesizer), Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas (organ), Naomi Sato (shô) and Fanny Vicens (accordion) in the Organpark
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Life: energy
Composer: Reich, Steve

The animals mess

about in their own places --

around the monkey.



Dieren scharrelen	Die Tiere schweifen
wat rond op hun eigen plek --	umher an ihren Plätzen --
rondom het aapje.	rund um den Affen.

Poem H2625
Amsterdam, 2019-11-16
This is a loud world (Martijn Padding) - 2019
Composition, performed by De Ereprijs Orchestra and Dirk Luijmes (clavichord)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Together: society
Composer: Padding, Martijn

Your personal sound,

nice and fine in your own tent --

but all together.



Je eigen geluid,	Dein eigener Klang,
lekker in je eigen tent --	in deinem eigenen Zelt --
maar met zijn allen.	aber zusammen.

Poem H2624
Amsterdam, 2019-11-16
This is a loud world (Martijn Padding) - 2019
Composition, performed by De Ereprijs Orchestra and Dirk Luijmes (clavichord)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Identity: being different
Composer: Padding, Martijn

The heron recedes

with a very slow wing beat --

the sun is setting.



De reiger wijkt weg	Der Reiher weicht weg
met een trage vleugelslag --	mit trägen Flügelschlägen --
de zon gaat onder.	Sonnenuntergang.

Poem H2623
Amsterdam, 2019-11-16
The Heron (Kate Moore) - 2019
Composition, performed by De Ereprijs Orchestra
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Evening
Composer: Moore, Kate

The city cooker

boils the air and the heron --

loses its feathers.



De zon kookt de lucht	In der Stadtpfanne
in de stadspan, de reiger --	kocht die Luft und der Reiher --
verliest haar veren.	verliert schon Federn.

Poem S0968
Amsterdam, 2019-11-16
The Heron (Kate Moore) - 2019
orkest de ereprijs (The Prize Orchestra)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Sun: blazing
Composer: Moore, Kate

The movement gives way

endlessly slow, it gives way --

without giving way.



De beweging wijkt	Die Bewegung weicht
eindeloos langzaam, ze wijkt --	unendlich langsam, sie weicht --
zonder te wijken.	ohne zu weichen.

Poem H2622
Amsterdam, 2019-11-16
Movement without movement (Jan van de Putte) - 2019
The end of "Movement without movement"
The Prize Orchestra
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Slow
Composer: Van de Putte, Jan

A shot: do not move







Een schot: beweeg niet,	Ein Schuss: halte, auch
ook niet met een blindenstok --
zucht oorverdovend!

Poem H2621
Amsterdam, 2019-11-16
Movement without movement (Jan van de Putte) - 2019
The Prize Orchestra
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Danger: behaviour
Composer: Van de Putte, Jan

I am here! Hello?

Do you hear me? Hello there! --

Let's dance together!



Ik ben hier! Hallo?	Ich bin hier! Hallo?
Horen jullie mij? Hallo! --	Könnt ihr mich hören? Hallo! --
Zullen we dansen?	Wollen wir tanzen?

Poem H2603
Amsterdam, 2019-11-09
Arborescence (Graydon Mulholland) - 2019
Jacob Lekkerkerker plays the Utopa hyperorgan on November 9th, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Contact: beginning
Composer: Mulholland, Graydon

Rhythm rushes itself,

listening carefully if --

the echo follows.



Ritme jaagt zich op,	Rhythmus jagt sich auf,
steeds aandachtig luisterend --	immer genau zuhörend --
of de echo volgt.	ob das Echo folgt.

Poem S0959
Amsterdam, 2019-11-09
The Path Contorts as the Traces Fade (Hugo Bell) - 2019
Jacob Lekkerkerker plays the Utopa hyperorgan in the Organpark, November 9th, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Power: wielding
Composer: Bell, Hugo

The generator

is droning non stop: Engine --

whatever happens.



Het aggregaat bromt	Der Generator
onafgebroken: Motor --	brummt, was auch immer passiert:
wat er ook gebeurt.	jederzeit Motor.

Poem H2602
Amsterdam, 2019-11-09
Ghost Train (Andrea Guterres) - 2019
"Ghost Train" - final version
Jacob Lekkerkerker plays the Utopa hyperorgan on November 9th, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Technics (operation)
Composer: Guterres, Andrea

A swarm of spirits

twittering in the organ --

is forming a train.



Er kwettert een zwerm	Ein Schwarm von Geistern
pijpgeesten in het orgel --	zwitschert in der Orgel und --
ze vormen een trein.	bildet einen Zug.

Poem H2601
Amsterdam, 2019-11-08
Ghost train (Andrea Guterres) - 2019
"Ghost Train" - interim version
Jacob Lekkerkerker plays the Utopa hyperorgan on November 9th, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Fantasy: imagination
Composer: Guterres, Andrea

The cheerful singing

does frighten me, it threatens --

to conceal something.



Het vrolijk lichte	Das fröhlich leichte
zingen beklemt me, het dreigt --	Singen beklemmt mich, es droht --
iets te verbergen.	was zu verbergen.

Poem H2600
Amsterdam, 2019-11-08
First part of the improvisation by Markus Hinz on the Utopa hyperorgan, on Friday November 8th, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Danger: hidden

A finger and sticks

are tap dancing on the keys:

deep times of silence.



Een vinger, stokken,	Ein Finger, Stöcke,
tapdansend op de toetsen:	stepptanzend auf den Tasten:
diepe stiltetijd.	tiefe Stillezeit.

Poem H2599
Amsterdam, 2019-11-03
Deep Rhythm 2 (Tom Johnson) - 2019
Composition for clarinet, piano and percussion, performed by Trio Omphalos in the Organpark on November 3^rd, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Dance
Composer: Johnson, Tom

On sensitive toes,

dancing in translucent clothes --

completely weightless.



Op tere tenen	Auf zarte Zehen
in doorschijnende kleren --	in durchscheinender Kleidung --
gewichtloos dansen.	schwereloser Tanz.

Poem H2598
Amsterdam, 2019-11-03
Rational Melody 1 (Tom Johnson) - 1982
Composition for clarinet, piano and percussion, performed by Trio Omphalos in the Organpark on November 3^rd, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Dance
Composer: Johnson, Tom

Both safe and unsafe,

the clear vocals are hidden --

in a gritty sound.



Onveilig veilig	Unsicher sicher,
gaat de heldere zang schuil --	klares Gesang, verborgen --
in gruizig geluid.	im grusigen Klang.

Poem S0958
Amsterdam, 2019-11-03
Hidden Melodies (Tom Johnson) - 2014
Composition for organ, performed by Johan Luijmes in the Organpark on November 3^rd, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Danger: hidden
Composer: Johnson, Tom

Rounds around the gong:

he listens how it dies down --

strenuous to strike.



Rondjes om de gong:	Runden um den Gong:
hij luistert hoe het stil wordt --	er hört zu, wie es still wird --
klaar om toe te slaan.	parat zu schlagen.

Poem H2597
Amsterdam, 2019-11-03
Nine Bells (Tom Johnson) - 1979
Performed by Olaf Pyras in the Organpark on November 3^rd, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Silence (pause)
Composer: Johnson, Tom

The sound of the gong

dies away, it expands space --

deepens the silence.



De toon van de gong	Der Langklang des Gongs
sterft weg, verruimt de ruimte --	stirbt ab, vergrößert den Raum --
verdiept de stilte.	vertieft die Stille.

Poem H2596
Amsterdam, 2019-11-03
Nine Bells (Tom Johnson) - 1979
Performed by Olaf Pyras in the Organpark on November 3^rd, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Silence (pause), Space
Composer: Johnson, Tom

The herbs are dancing

on their bare roots, still playing --

are not planted yet.



De kruiden dansen	Die Kräuter tanzen
op hun wortels, ze spelen --	auf ihren Wurzeln, spielen --
zijn nog niet gepoot.	sind noch nicht gepflanzt.

Poem S0946
Amsterdam, 2019-10-11
Seven (Hansjörg Fink en Elmar Lehnen) - 2018
"Sieben" ("Seven", 2018, Hansjörg Fink & Elmar Lehnen), composition about the creation
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Fantasy: playing
Composers: Fink, Hansjoerg; Lehnen, Elmar

The heavenly fire,

booms and flashes through the clouds --

It is what It is.



Het hemelse vuur	Das Himmelfeuer
dreunt en flitst door de wolken --	dröhnt und blitzt durch die Wolken --
Het is wat Het is.	Es ist was Es ist.

Poem H2577
Amsterdam, 2019-10-05
The Burning (Ivan Vukosavljevic) - 2019
Performed in the Organpark on October 5^th, 2019, by Ensemble Klang
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Universe: energy
Composer: Vukosavljevic, Ivan

No strains, no burning;

what is left, only exists --

as Om, beginning.



Er spant niets, brandt niets;	Da spannt nichts, brennt nichts;
wat er nog is, bestaat slechts --	was noch ist, existiert nur --
als Om, het begin.	als Om, der Anfang.

Poem H2576
Amsterdam, 2019-10-05
The Burning (Ivan Vukosavljevic) - 2019
Performed in the Organpark on October 5^th, 2019, by Ensemble Klang
Om is the keynote of cosmic awareness
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Universe: all
Composer: Vukosavljevic, Ivan

I like to be wild:

life is hitting and kicking --

It does that to me.



Ik doe lekker wild:	Ich tue wild: das
leven is slaan en schoppen --	Leben ist Schlag und Treten --
want dat doet het mij.	Das macht es mit mir.

Poem S0942
Amsterdam, 2019-10-05
Debris (Kit Downes) - 2019
Composition, performed on October 5th, 2019 in the Organpark, by Kit Downes (organ) and Ensemble Klang
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Life: energy
Composer: Downes, Kit

Waste is a chaos,

it's the fair time of dying --

after the last dance.



Afval is chaos,	Schutt ist Unordnung,
de kermis van het sterven --	eine Kirmes des Sterbens --
na de laatste dans.	nach dem letzten Tanz.

Poem H2575
Amsterdam, 2019-10-05
Debris - 2019
Performed in the Organpark on October 5th, 2019, by Ensemble Klang and Kit Downes
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Waste
Composer: Downes, Kit

Chaos is normal,

stability is formal --

armoured in its form.



Chaos is gewoon,	Chaos ist normal,
stabiliteit is formeel --	Stabilität ist förmlich --
geharnast in vorm.	in Form gepanzert.

Poem S0941
Amsterdam, 2019-10-05
Debris - 2019
Performed in the Organpark on October 5^th, by Ensemble Klang and Kit Downes
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Order: chaos
Composer: Downes, Kit

If the start was A

big bang, things only exist --

as its residue.



Als het startschot 1	Wenn der Startschuss 1
oerknal was, bestaat alles --	Urknall war, besteht alles --
slechts als restafval.	nur als Überrest.

Poem H2574
Amsterdam, 2019-10-05
Debris - 2019
Performed in the Organpark on October 5th, 2019, by Ensemble Klang and Kit Downes
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Universe: all, Past: remnants
Composer: Downes, Kit

Zywa The crow

The crow is invisible
black in the thin sky
rarefying, connecting
worlds, revealing

messages that I do not understand
until they penetrate me
sharp, deep and indelible
overwhelming, everything

changes and I don't remember
who I was before it turned black
and the beady eyes with their beak
started hacking on me

Poem 2405
Amsterdam, 2019-04-15
The Crow (Kate Moore) - 2019
Performance of "The Crow" (2019, Kate Moore) in the Organparc, by Geerten van de Wetering (organ) and Matthijs Koene (pan-pipes)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Religion: revelation, Flying: crow / magpie
Composer: Moore, Kate

There is life breathing

in the darkness, I hear it --

blowing up my fear.



Er ademt leven	In der Dunkelheit
in het duister, ik hoor het --	atmet Leben, hör, es bläst --
mijn angst opblazen.	meine Ängste auf.

Poem H2440
Amsterdam, 2019-04-28
101 (Michael Bonaventure) - 2019
Composition for organ, electronics and percussion, performed by him in the Organpark on April 28^th, 2019
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Fear: vague
Composer: Bonaventure, Michael

Above the ashes

the angels start to tinkle --

peace into our hearts.



Boven rook en as	Über die Asche
rinkelen de engelen --	klingeln die Engel Frieden --
vrede in ons hart.	in unsren Herzen.

Poem H2439
Amsterdam, 2019-04-28
For the Nôtre-Dame (Calliope Tsoupaki) - 2019
Composition "Pour Notre-Dame"
Performed in the Organpark on April 28^th, 2019 and November 14^th, 2021
Michael Bonaventure, resp. Geerten Liefting (organ)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: feelings
Composer: Tsoupaki, Calliope

Out of the program,

the organ mourns for the church --

with tears full of soot.



Ongeprogrammeerd	Unprogrammiert weint
beweent het orgel de kerk --	das Orgel um die Kirche --
met tranen vol roet.	Tränen voller Ruß.

Poem H2438
Amsterdam, 2019-04-28
For the Nôtre-Dame (Calliope Tsoupaki) - 2019
Composition "Pour Notre-Dame"
Performed in the Organpark on April 28^th, 2019 and November 14^th, 2021
Michael Bonaventure, resp. Geerten Liefting (organ)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Sadness: express
Composer: Tsoupaki, Calliope

Ruins & Remains:

life is quiet and festive --

the war continues.



Puin & Restanten:	Ruinen, Reste:
het leven zwijgt en viert feest --	wir schweigen und wir feiern --
de oorlog gaat door.	der Krieg geht weiter.

Poem H2429
Amsterdam, 2019-04-06
Ruins & Remains (Wolfert Brederode) - 2019
Performed on April 6^th, 2019 in het Orgelpark, by Wolfert Brederode, the Matangi Quartet and Joost Libaart
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: War: daily life, Lifestream (motion)

While the harp is tuned

the hall sings, string after string!

Should this be the break?



De harp wordt gestemd,	Das Stimmen: der Raum
de zaal zingt snaar na snaar mee!	singt Saite nach Saite mit!
Is dit de pauze?	Ist das die Pause?

Poem H2409
Amsterdam, 2019-03-08
Juan Blanco in the Organpark during the break
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: connects

Candlelight evenings

together: melancholic --

tenderness, alone.



Onze avonden	Diesen Kerzenlicht--
bij kaarslicht: weemoedige --	abend: melancholische --
tederheid, alleen.	Zärtlichkeit, allein.

Poem H2404
Amsterdam, 2019-02-23
Tenderly (Leos Janacek)
Composition "Nèn?"
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Melancholy (acquiescence)
Composer: Janacek, Leos

Am I still myself,

are you you, or do we merge --

in melodion?



Ben ik nog mijzelf,	Bin ich noch ich, du
jij jij, of versmelten we --	du, oder verschmelzen wir --
in harmonium?	in Harmonium?

Poem H2403
Amsterdam, 2019-02-23
Dirk Luijmes plays the harmonium
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Harmony: relaxation

Zywa Rockin' rockin'go

Here I want to stay
humming in the sweet breath
of the good old days

the warm nest in my heart
my welcome, come
take and eat and drink

my body, my blood
then we'll rock together
rockin' in happiness

rockin' rockin'go
rockin' rockin'goes

rockin' rockin'go
rockin' rockin'goes
blossoms of a rose

Poem 2119
Amsterdam, 2019-02-24
Invocation (Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens) - 1860
Composition "Invocation" (for harmonium, 1860, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens), February 23th, 2019 in the Organpark performed by Dirk Luijmes
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Happiness (relaxation)
Composer: Lemmens, Jacques-N.

Zywa My mask

The plaster pulls the skin
my colour, my moles
and careful make-up
from my face

Red
living flesh
looking eyes
expressive lips, my mouth
smiling at you

     And you scan my mask
     three-dimensionally, you hang
     a field of registration points
     on the red markings
     at my eyes, nose, and chin

     You trace back the dots
     to feelings, then you look
     at me, understandingly
     From the void
     of my eyes and mouth

     the black holes
     in the information
     I try to articulate
     what you can't see
     Still, they don't show anything

Poem 2102
Amsterdam, 2019-02-17
Face (Yannis Kyriakides) - 2018
Composition #138, for voice recorders, violin, piano, electronics, live face detection and processing, and video; performed by Electra, in the Organpark on February 17^th, 2019
Facial casts of Nias islanders (1910)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Identity: physical
Composer: Kyriakides, Yannis

Zywa Blind heroes

I hesitate pressing my feet
on the narrow path through the marsh
cautiously gaining confidence
to return to the world

Dancing elves in the diffused light
maybe it's will-o'-the-wisp
trying to drown me

My wishes are groping around
in the mist of uncertainty
as blind heroes on the run
from themselves

and searching for the courage
that hides
between light and dark

Inside me there's a buzz
the song of an air
bursting into the open
and leaping in the world

I go after it
and play with the light
in the dark

Poem 1970
Amsterdam, 2018-12-09
Light and dark - I (Jan Welmers) - 1996
Part 1 and 3 of:
"Licht en donker" - I, versie voor marimba en altsaxofoon ("Light and dark" - I, version for marimba and altsaxophone)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Self-confidence
Composer: Welmers, Jan

Zywa Safely in the dark

Safely in the dark
experiencing the dark
in theatres and music
halls: light and dark

and in the light a play
of persons or sounds
the light and dark
of a tormented heart

wandering in the twilight
between high tones of hope
and a deep fear
of one's own destiny

I witness it
safely in the dark

In the wheels of life
the spokes of the night
and the day seem to turn against
each other, as a whirlpool

that pulls me along
and plays with me
I give in
lose myself

safely in the dark

Poem 1969
Amsterdam, 2018-12-09
Light and dark - I (Jan Welmers) - 1996
Part 1 and 3 of:
"Licht en donker" - I, versie voor marimba en altsaxofoon ("Light and dark" - I, version for marimba and altsaxophone)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Life: experience, Feelings (undergo)
Composer: Welmers, Jan

Slowly, the music

is moving forward, breathing --

over the sound box.



De muziek beweegt	Die Musik bewegt
zich langzaam voort, ademend --	sich langsam vorwärts, atmend --
over de klankkast.	über den Korpus.

Poem H2326
Amsterdam, 2018-11-18
Waterways (Raphael Vanoli) - 2018
Composition "Waterways", for electric guitar and piano, performed by him together with Wolfert Brederode (piano) on November 18th, 2018 in the Organpark
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: sound
Tribute to: Vanoli, Raphael; Brederode, Wolfert

Zywa Hyper

The organ is hyper
the pipes are burping
croaking and twittering
disorderly, merrily
they run wild

Attention deficit
Hyperactive
screaming panic
cries out for stimulation, now
move, everything must give way

In the consternation
dip animals pop up
softly they knock
at Messiaen's, he begins
to play quietly

but is drowned out

Poem 1897
Amsterdam, 2018-11-09
ADHD (Boris Bezemer) - 1992
Composition, arranged for the Hildebrand Baroque organ / Utopa hyperorgan in Organpark
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: sound
Composer: Bezemer, Boris

Zywa From heart to heart

I dance best listening
to music, the sun shines
in the brass, angels

sing from mouths of gold
and the animals prick up their ears
everything goes round, joy

parades ahead of us
from heart to heart
spring turns into summer

we change our steps
fly up jubilantly
and flutter down

in open hands
autumn turns into winter
yonder we see the house

with the roses around
our bridal bed, everyone dances
at the feast, the sun shines

in the brass, angels
sing from mouths of gold
and the animals prick up their ears

everything goes round, joy
from heart to heart, love
from parent to child

Poem 1878
Amsterdam, 2018-10-19
Ottoni brass quartet Anniversary concert (Organpark, October 19^th, 2018)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Dance

Mossy and muddy,

earthy, just a pair of braids:

the matt green organ.



Mossig, modderig,	Moosig und schlammig,
en aards, alleen sierbanden:	und erdig, nur Zierbänder:
het groene orgel.	die grüne Orgel.

Poem H2165
Amsterdam, 2018-06-01
Sauer organ (1922)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Beauty: culture

A wind from behind

the hedge blows a vast silence --

an eternity.



Van achter de heg	Hinter der Hecke
waaien weidsheid en stilte --	wehen Weite und Stille --
waait de eeuwigheid.	weht die Ewigkeit.

Poem H2164
Amsterdam, 2018-06-01
The infinite (Giacomo Leopardi / Ronald Moelker) - 1820
Poem "L'infinito" (collection "Idilli"), set to music in 2018 by Ronald Moelker, for choir and saxophone quartet, performed in the Organpark on June 1st, 2018
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Calm: space, Time: eternity
Tribute to: Leopardi, Giacomo
Composer: Moelker, Ronald

The harmonious

music babbles and splashes --

in everyone's heart.



De welluidende	Die wohlklingende
muziek kabbelt en klatert --	Musik plätschert und spritzt in --
in onze harten.	unseren Herzen.

Poem H2071
Amsterdam, 2018-04-22
The well-tempered harpsichord (Johann Sebastian Bach) - 1722
Composition "Das Wohltemperierte Klavier" (BWV 846-869), first part, performed by Willem Brons in the Organpark on April 22nd, 2018
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: feelings
Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian

His lips sing along

with his nimble fingers, and --

the strings are dancing.



Zijn lippen zingen	Seine Lippen im
mee met zijn vlugge vingers --	Einklang mit seinen Fingern --
De snaren dansen.	Die Saiten tanzen.

Poem H2070
Amsterdam, 2018-04-22
The well-tempered harpsichord (Johann Sebastian Bach) - 1722
Composition "Das Wohltemperierte Klavier" (BWV 846-869), first part, performed by Willem Brons in the Organpark on April 22nd, 2018
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: dance, rhythm
Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian

Alone in the hall,

the space of silence receives --

me and includes me.



Alleen in de zaal,	Alleine im Saal,
de ruimte van de stilte --	der Raum der Stille empfängt --
neemt me in zich op.	mich und nimmt mich auf.

Poem H2069
Amsterdam, 2018-04-22
Concert intermission
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Calm: space, Silence (pause)

Zywa Preacher

Refreshed the sun leaves the bed
of the starry night, the tent
where his bride will wait

Cheerful like a hero
he runs over the afternoon
and the evening, back

to her body
That's how David sees God's hand
in the sky and the world

mounted in it, so beautiful
must His greatness be
for those considering
that it cannot be otherwise:
the sun rises
and goes down

In amazement
we look
at each other

Poem 1717
Amsterdam, 2018-04-15
The heavens declare the glory of God (Daan Manneke) - 2017
Psaume 19 - "Les cieux racontent la gloire de Dieu"
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Sun: life
Composer: Manneke, Daan

Zywa Sanctified body

There must be a sanctuary here
so clear are the bells inviting
me, then here, then there

the ordinary recedes, opening
pieces of heaven, commm commm
commm tolls a big bell

Children dance me in
where the organ exults in light light
A breaker puts down weights

they are also sacred here
He rolls out his voice and builds
ever heavier walls

without the blood in the darkness
of his veins knowing what is happening
and not being able to imagine it

Over there people are dancing arm in arm
closer by the noise ebbs away
in repeated syllable cries

Rumbling in the distance
In the thin atmosphere I whistle
myself a body

Poem 1715
Amsterdam, 2018-04-13
Sanctuary (David Dramm) - 2018
Composition
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Body: and mind
Composer: Dramm, David

Zywa Substream

Under our blue-green satisfaction
tightened smoothly by the beautiful day
a stream drives us into the mountain

In wide tunnel streets we glide
through the black light past
stalacmummies and stalagdaddies and

echoes of processions, a Siren
is barefooted singing for rain, clearly
the drops fall from her mouth

Ahead, musicians celebrate the seized time
For them each day is a treat
in the caves of the shadows

where there are no seasons, no toilets
where no one is naked, no one caressed
and no one has access

to the hidden chambers
of clotted pain, the cavities of heavens
full of stars in the belly of the mountain

without babies, guarded by brigades
of bats, our hearts are pounding
like volcanoes through the galleries

because something is trembling itself
maybe even free to the sun -
but it blows over

Poem 1711
Amsterdam, 2018-03-26
Concert by Jacob Lekkerkerker (organ), Alfredo Ge-novesi (electronics), Oene van Geel (violin), Mauri-zio Velasiera (flute) and Heidi Heidelberg (vocals)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Psyche
Composers: Lekkerkerker, Jacob; Genovesi, Alfredo

Zywa Quiet middle

In deep repose, my body
in infinite space
in the quiet middle

of the galaxies
slowly around me -
my thoughts stray in time

between the rush hours, loose
between the sounds waving in
between the blowing net curtain

and fading away
Clearly I hear the voice
of a free string

in the rhythms of traffic
in flurries of gamelan and conga
in sound sequences and interludes

on an autumn afternoon
and in front of me in the hall
sits a handsome man

Poem 1607
Amsterdam, 2017-11-08
Sonatas and Interludes (John Cage) - 1948
Composition for prepared piano
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Space
Composer: Cage, John

The large pipe organ

is building up walls of sound --

a castle in air.



Het grote orgel	Die große Orgel
bouwt muren op van geluid --	baut Mauern auf von Klängen --
tot een luchtkasteel.	zu einem Luftschloß.

Poem H1839
Amsterdam, 2017-10-30
Organpark, Amsterdam, October 21^st, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: mass
Composer: Bruckner, Anton

Zywa Tenuous hopes

Between ruins, man sings
out hope that rebuilds houses
a song that survives

when the fury has raged again
how thin like hot steaming souls
above the dung heap the voices

may sound between the hills
of toil, elsewhere modest
in holy places with undertones

of severity of rock-solid
brethren in the fury of desires
which drags freedom away

and smears it with blood
and tears or beats it to death
in its chains

Poem 1083
Amsterdam, 2017-02-26
Men's ensemble The Gents sings sacral music in the Organparc
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Hope (active)

Zywa Cantor

I get tired of hoarsely calling
sounds that don't form
words, an echo
is the low response

and so I just start
a conversation with that
fluttering back and forth
in subterranean caves

full of silver-eel
silently and listening
to the echo
that doesn't ask for me

Together it sounded better
but she deserves a voice of her own
and I wait to demonstrate how
the space sounds

come, we do it together
And so on
severally again
This is only part 2

Poem 1099
Amsterdam, 2017-03-01
Rejoice! (Sofia Gubaidulina) - 1981
Composition "Freue dich!"
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Language: communication
Composer: Gubaidulina, Sofia

Zywa The playing way

Cleanliness and routine
a blessing of calm

giving me energy
and making me jump
in spin, the loop is in
out spout, the loop is out

I'm going wild in the garden
party of earthly delights
I jump to the fruit, ripe and green
every day again, it has no end

as long as it lasts -
until I write smaller and smaller
circles around my centre
under the caprices

A blessing of calm
cleanliness and routine

Poem 1042
Amsterdam, 2017-02-19
Rondo (Calliope Tsoupaki) - 2001
"Rondo" (2001, Calliope Tsoupaki), performed by Heleen Hulst on baroque violin in the Organpark on February 18^th, 2017
Skipping rope: "In spin, the loop is in, / out spout, the loop is out"
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Life: lust (enthusiasm), Balance (psycho-soma)
Composer: Tsoupaki, Calliope
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk

Zywa Angels in the park

As with the landing
of an unearthly traveling
saucer in a clearing

in the park, we walk
with our ears
through the large cube hall

red in the vibrating light
Mighty trills pull us
up, out of the seats

into a dimension
for which we lack the senses
but with each step we feel

eternalised time
until we shall dissolve
into another existence

Angels walk like this
immortally themselves
in heavenly light

We soar
we rumble
with a whole fleet

away from the earth

Poem 1006
Amsterdam, 2017-02-12
music for four fixed organs and four sound converters (André Möller) - 2016
Composition "musik für vier geparkte orgeln und vier ton-wandler(innen)", with sticks of lead upon the keys, performed by Elisabeth Frey-Bächli, Jeromos Kamphuis, Samuel Vriezen and Dante Boon in the Organpark on Saturday February 11^th, 2017
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Time: eternity, Space
Composer: Moeller, Andre

Zywa Stationary dance

Reading slowly, with pauses
may have the sound of poetry
Also playing that way

on the piano is not by itself
a vault arch or dance
from Sparta or Knossos

Yet there is an urge
compelling artistic souls
to waste their lives

for their part, searching
the roots
of preferably all

that is vibrating on earth
at least those of mankind
to unfold them

in spaces of silence

Poem 1005
Amsterdam, 2017-02-12
Signposts (Mark Hannesson) - 2016
Composition for piano, performed by Dante Boon in the Organpark on Saturday February 11^th, 2017
"Ogives", "Gymnopédies" and "Gnossiennes" (Éric Satie)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: vibration
Composer: Hannesson, Mark

Zywa Into the unbound

I do start to listen
but it is a concert
for aware Buddhists
that turns off your senses
The organ is grunting Om

and after 20 minutes I wonder
who Í am, who the others are

without coughing bound
to their chair, by one tone, close
to each other, but not enough
alone to meditate
into the unbound

Another 45 minutes
of silence in conclusion
Only the rustle
of the 72 blowing eyes
of the air ceiling

Poem 1004
Amsterdam, 2017-02-12
into the unbound (Antoine Beuger) - 1997
Composition "ins ungebundene", performed by Keiko Shichijo in the Organpark on Saturday February 11^th, 2017
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Identity: connection
Composer: Beuger, Antoine

Zywa Twistering

There is always something going on
but what can I do about it?

Dancing on the pedals
I already have to pull
in and out so many registrations
hammering the deliberate
score parade on 168 keys

I twister the best years
of my life, it's a treat
I don't want to miss
Yes, have a look
at my bald spot, do dream
indecent thoughts

I persevere
and you are out

Poem 965
Amsterdam, 2017-01-20
Thomas Trotter playing in the Organpark
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: playful

Zywa Sand pendulum

To sustaining tones, the material
world draws a trail in smooth loops
from a bottle hanging askew
on its navel string and running

empty over the blue rug
of awareness
of all who are there
A pendulum thought

More and more light shines
through the bottle and the wind
in our senses
wipes out the patterns

we have repeated
into a magical eight
of insight into the infinite
course of our lives

Poem 953
Amsterdam, 2017-01-14
Concert "Le monde à l'envers" with a harmonograph (Lissajous figures; Foucault pendulum) in the Organpark, on shakuhachi (Harrie Starreveld) and organ (Johan Luijmes), performed on January 14^th, 2017
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Life: course (overview)

Zywa Blue love

Stars above the high
fort of pipes, our gate of heaven
spaceship, diving bell

gliding saucer
20,000 leagues under the sea
with panoramic window

in the blue night
on our way between points of light
in the pulsating beauty

of the heart of the cosmos
where the stars are falling
in time like water

On veiled tones
we reach and reach
we travel and travel

in blue love
starry love, stroking
through stalks, reed, leaves

We want to kiss
everything endlessly
Your hands and mine

blending pink together
our arms are waving
corals of our heart

Poem 883
Amsterdam, 2016-12-10
First part of the concert by Matteo Mijderwijk (keys) with video by Heleen Blanken, in the Organpark on December 10^th, 2016
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Love: harmony
Tribute to: Blanken, Heleen
Composer: Mijderwijk, Matteo

Zywa A new register

Being old, yet
wanting another
new register

Getting started
to tune it
Not letting me be deterred

by discords and hitches
Dripping practice oil
and listening attentively

till I hear myself
in the new voice
in my new tones

and keys, dozens
of pipes in the case
of my life added

Poem 843
Amsterdam, 2016-11-25
Sonata (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) - 1755
Composition H87, Sonata in g für Orgel, played on November 25^th, 2016 in the Organpark, by Marcin Augustyn
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Self-expression (growth)
Composer: Bach, Carl Ph. Em.

Zywa Buttocks outside

Zooming outside
roaring and approaching
rattling

working like crazy
shifting earth
weeding massively

resisting, rebuilding
perhaps, hard labour
if you can say so

of machines
My walls still stand
There's light in

my comfortable home
my resigned home
The revolution rumbles

away if I would
have a look
have the nerve

to open the curtain
then I might see
her buttocks

ugly buttocks
big white buttocks
in a ploughed up landscape

Poem 822
Amsterdam, 2016-11-06
Disintegration (Wouter Snoei) - 1998
Composition for fixed media, performed in the Organpark on November 5^th, 2016
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Change: revolution
Composer: Snoei, Wouter

Zywa Celestial music

It's not celestial music
It's a bathroom girl

singing flowers through her ceiling
and dropping the bath-towel
from her breasts at my door

It may end up with a daughter
I still think a lifetime later

too deaf to hear how
she is singing, so I long
for celestial music

Poem 824
Amsterdam, 2016-11-08
Ode on celestial music (Brian Patten) - 1968
Poem (1968, Brian Patten)
Composition (2007, Ad Wammes)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: song
Tribute to: Patten, Brian
Composer: Wammes, Ad

Zywa Train

Holiday on sandals
counting my steps
in the soft sand
along the bay

one two three four
one two three four
one two three four five six
seven eight

from fingers to abacus and further
to formulas and then their simplification
E = mc²
two three four one

two three four
one two
one two three
one two three three

the shifting sound
of voices and waves
crystal clear on the beach
34 years later

Poem 798
Amsterdam, 2016-09-30
Einstein on the beach (Philip Glass)
Dual Synthesis (Tristan Perich) - 1976
Albert Einstein, Long Island Sound 1939

Dual Synthesis (2009/2011, Tristan Perich, for harpsichord and electronica, performed in the Organparc on September 30^th, 2016)
Einstein on the beach (1976, Philip Glass, in part performed by the Attacca Ensemble in the Organparc on October 11^th, 2009)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: dance, rhythm
Composers: Glass, Philip; Perich, Tristan

Zywa Light out

The master basses
My body dissolves
in a circle of banishments

pushing the crowd away
into underground whispering
Formulas Memories

We know everything
You again! You too, mud
We too, breathe

Keep breathing, we know
again. Only you, of all dust
You again! Mud, you too

High tones wring
with the hall also me
ever longer and thinner

around my axis into a strand
You must, you must, you must
You again! Ache, wipe yourself

out, breathe, breathe out

Poem 1143
Amsterdam, 2017-03-06
Ob-literate (Zeno van den Broek & Gagi Petrovic) - 2016
2^nd half of the composition for 2 sopranos, 3 baritones, 3 cubes and an organ, performed in the Organpark on March 18^th, 2016 and November 29^th, 2018
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Life: gift
Composers: Van den Broek, Zeno; Petrovic, Gagi

Zywa Light in

Main Station unknown
entangled in sounds of trains
and voices, cathedral-high

the central hall
where I stand tense
in a column of light

riddled with words echoing
down from the dome, pinning myself
down in my place

Everyone moves but
for me there's no space
My initiation?

A sacrificial ritual?
High voltage grunts
through the texts

crying ditch
animals desecrate the hall
put the pool under pressure

We know everything

Poem 1142
Amsterdam, 2017-03-06
Ob-literate (Zeno van den Broek & Gagi Petrovic) - 2016
1^st half of the composition for 2 sopranos, 3 baritones, 3 cubes and an organ, performed in the Organpark on March 18^th, 2016 and November 29^th, 2018
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Universe: connection
Composers: Van den Broek, Zeno; Petrovic, Gagi

Zywa Falling in heaven

From the ordinary world
called together here
we drink and talk a little

we forget our agenda
and worries, dance and are ourselves:
a garden party around the barrel organ

Love carousels waltzing
free garlands with insects
in shrubs with a swinging sweet smell

they sing and whirl
they pull loose our decency
and we marvel

at today's magic
we rock ourselves
in the love of all-

embracing hands, we
fasten the sun, roses
we do not need

no moon either, no beds
and the children fall
roaring into heaven

Poem 1254
Amsterdam, 2017-04-07
The Busy Drone (1924, Antwerp), in the Organpark, November 20^th 2015
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Party: celebrate

Zywa Breathe Sun

Sometimes my eyes open
in the dark and my ears hear
the first bird listening

to its first tone, waiting
for a second voice, veiled
in the night haze between the branches

Each in its own tree, alone together
Half scales. They get loose
their breasts swell and deflate

Toomm peehh oooh as if
they start a conversation, but still
prefer to hear themselves, going

to the next tone, for a moment falling
silent when it really becomes light
A droning plane in the distance

Thennn inhale more deeply
and fully, reaching higher
and drowning out everything

cutting sharply, not letting the air
fray, but thrill, crescendo
and crossed: here I am, hear me

no, me! and the sun rises
filling lungs, muscles and thoughts:
it will be a beautiful day

Poem 1706
Amsterdam, 2018-03-18
Crawling - for organs (Samuel Vriezen) - 2011
Composition, performed in the Organpark on November 19^th and 20^th, 2011, October 31^st, 2015
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: sound
Composer: Vriezen, Samuel

Zywa Airways

Floating conversations in the park
strollers breathe their thoughts

out into airways above the paths
that on the way dissolve wordless

in the minds hazy sounds
togetherness angelic language

whispering questions living
in the blood fears and sadness

an open circuit stowed around
by an invisible heart

an ignorant heart searching
to understand what it loves

in the running life
of unsolved cases

Poem 1226
Amsterdam, 2017-03-19
Cohesion (Sean o Dalaigh) - 2015
Composition, with text from "L'innommable" ("The Unnamable", 1953, Samuel Beckett)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Communication (unconsciously)
Tribute to: Beckett, Samuel
Composer: O Dalaigh, Sean

I breathe and blow sound

worlds into existence, I --

scream for an answer!



Ik adem, ik blaas	Hör, ich atme Klang-
klankwerelden tot leven --	welten Leben ein, schreiend --
ik schreeuw om antwoord!	nach einer Antwort!

Poem H1064
Amsterdam, 2014-11-28
I breathe (Daan Manneke) - 1979
Composition "Pneoo", performed by organist André Ferreira
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Communication (sending), Attention: attract
Composer: Manneke, Daan

The street is cheerful,

listen, spring sings within me --

I am outside in.



De straat is vrolijk,	Der Park ist fröhlich,
hoor, er zingt lente in mij --	höre, in mir singt Frühling --
buitenstebinnen.	außennachinnen.

Poem H1063
Amsterdam, 2014-11-28
Mirror (Ad Wammes) - 1989
Composition "Miroir", for organ, performed by Laurens de Man at the Organpark on November 28th, 2014, and by Jeroen Koopman on August 16th, 2026
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Freedom: joy of living, Spring
Composer: Wammes, Ad

Zywa Leaking into new blood

All the waste is blowing
in the same direction
Over wet snow

hot and cutting grass
dry leaves
It gets dark

and light again
dark and light, the sky
wears the spores

frozen, burned
to invisible
the earth, the earth

fertilizes the powders:
leaking into new blood
between skin and bones

feeling flesh in the wind
over the wet, the hot
cutting and dry existence

Poem 1091
Amsterdam, 2017-02-28
Debris and alchemy (Kate Moore) - 2009
Composition, performed by Ensemble Klang in the Organpark on November 21^st, 2009 and October 25^th, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Earth: biosphere, Winter
Composer: Moore, Kate

Zywa The apple

I do remember
windows, disappeared

somewhere in the invisible
building, outside

the half egg of space
that creates a weak light

in the darkness -
floating dust particles

and a flat floor field
of vibrating spots

in which, bitten, beside a cover
the apple of questioning shines:

what do I see
where am I

in what way is it developing
whither, wherefore, since when

why is this so
and who am I then?

Poem 1048
Amsterdam, 2017-02-20
Chaincurve II (David Dramm) - 2011
Composition, performed on November 12th, 2011 and November 3^rd, 2013 in the Organpark
The 7 W's: Why/What to/for What/Wherefore (vision), Whither/Where to/What result (mission), Who, What, When, What way, Where
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Knowledge: science, Questions
Composer: Dramm, David

Zywa Sleeper dyke

Sleeper dyke, sheep dyke
on the flats, not much happens

Gray on gray the slow breath
of night and day, shreds

of heartbeatless noise and waves
of screaming seagulls, silver-

glare on the sea
the slime trail of a snail

Nowhere blood, just some feathers
shells of past life

and silent sighs from the universe
Without a dyke I would disappear

to nowhere, oh how I ache
for you

Poem 1211
Amsterdam, 2017-03-13
Variations II (John Cage)
Fields have ears nr. 1 (Michael Pisaro)
"Variations II" (1961, John Cage)
"Fields have ears" nr. 1 (2010, Michael Pisaro)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Emptiness / Void
Composers: Cage, John; Pisaro, Michael

Zywa Meanwhile something else

Answer to the fromquestion
What was first
chicken or egg? The fried egg chicken

Proudly she stands
on unyielding legs
in her broken egg

Answer to the toquestion
What will be last? God's son
spreads his arms

he jumps from the cross
as the winner: the fried egg man!
Applause

everything will be fine
people, wait patiently
weve got time

two thousand years
are already over, and meanwhile
we do something else

Poem 1704
Amsterdam, 2018-03-18
Stations of the cross (Kamagurka) - 2012
Kruiswegstatiën ("Stations of the cross", 2012, Kamagurka) with "Via Crucis" (2000/2014) by Gilius van Bergeijk
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Waiting (patience, impatience)
Tribute to: Kamagurka
Composer: Van Bergeijk, Gilius

Zywa The fish fly

The great sea
foams impetuously
The ships are struggling

through, dive up
from the waves, again and again
on their way to the port

that tames the wild water
The fish fly
out of the hands of the skippers
quickly ashore, to high piles

under the brown-red sky
of the setting sun
and the ships leap up

On the dark horizon
the sea is dreaming restlessly
in a night without time

Poem 1703
Amsterdam, 2018-03-17
Zebulon, the red window (Marc Chagall) - 1961
Window in the Abbell synagogue in Jerusalem
Composition "Okna podle Marca Chagalla" ("Windows after Marc Chagall", 1976), performed in the Organpark on April 5^th, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Sea
Tribute to: Chagall, Marc
Composer: Eben, Petr

Zywa Siesta

Siesta, angelic music
strews holy words in my ears

draws them on the front and the back
in relief in the auricles. Am I dozing

or has someone awakened
the flowers? I lie so comfortably

in the sun, safe in the green
field, my face blushes blue

from the royal chalice between my legs
the flowers just laugh and sing

The work is done, yes I doze
of holiness

Poem 1101
Amsterdam, 2017-03-02
Issachar, the green window (Marc Chagall) - 1961
Window in the Abbell synagogue in Jerusalem
Composition "Okna podle Marca Chagalla" ("Windows after Marc Chagall", 1976), performed in the Organpark on April 5^th, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Rest (recovery)
Tribute to: Chagall, Marc
Composer: Eben, Petr

Zywa The blue boy

In darkness the very first
awakening

of light that ignites in stars everywhere
in space existing just now

by strands of galaxies
slung apart, the string

of the bow, everything is vibrating, and
nobody knows about arrow and target

A spirit begins
to be aware, fertile

purple calyxes in large dark green leaves
the self-fertilizing egg

that the unloved woman desires
to become pregnant

Poem 1672
Amsterdam, 2018-02-14
Ruben, the blue window (Marc Chagall) - 1961
Window in the Abbell synagogue in Jerusalem
Composition "Okna podle Marca Chagalla" ("Windows after Marc Chagall", 1976), performed in the Organpark on April 5^th, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Body: procreation
Tribute to: Chagall, Marc
Composer: Eben, Petr

Zywa The vow

In silence and darkness
we come together solemnly

the vow is brought in
We solemnly light our candles

with the candles, we sing thanks, sing
for our ancestors, the panthers solemnly

We praise the lion of reason
We feed the dove of peace

We ask the blessing of the phoenix that watches
over our children and grandchildren

We repeat the vow solemnly

Panter	be impartial
Lion	kill if necessary
Dove	dont betray anyone
Phoenix	take care of everyone

We are the panther and the lion
we are the dove and the phoenix

that is our vow

to each other and to our children
hand in hand in hand solemnly

Poem 1702
Amsterdam, 2018-03-17
Levi, the golden window (Marc Chagall) - 1961
Window in the Abbell synagogue in Jerusalem
Composition "Okna podle Marca Chagalla" ("Windows after Marc Chagall", 1976), performed in the Organpark on April 5^th, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Religion: promise
Tribute to: Chagall, Marc
Composer: Eben, Petr

Zywa Sorcerer's apprentices in the haze

It bangs it bubbles
it twinkles it grows it is
a hive of activity, each molecule
a sorcerers apprentice in the smithy
without smith, the creation
of multiple existence

crystal clear fermenting in the haze
it tumbles it steams it connects
water and fire, chains of reactions
stable series hook together, swish
push forward in lines ahead ahead
it bangs it bubbles it grows

the world in tinkling processes
tries out and invents itself
sweeps with squalls, shuffles in waves
dances and sings little bells in the water
ahead ahead the sorcerers fall
and fall over each other

Poem 1057
Amsterdam, 2017-02-21
Haze (Ton Bruynèl) - 1994
Composition "Brouillard"
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Universe: energy
Composer: Bruynel, Ton

Zywa Ripples

A feather stick makes wind
over the ripples of the keyboard

dust whirling up and down
from the swaying

Again and again a run-up
And the light beaming through

The storm plays with the beach
it winnows, just toss it, and toss it

Sand ripples along the sea
The horn of a late guest

Last notes, last gusts
the wind lies down on the edge

of the old sea
and the new land

Poem 1104
Amsterdam, 2017-03-02
Dust (Ton Bruynèl) - 1992
Composition for organ and 2 sound tracks, performed in the Organpark on March 2^nd, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Wind
Composer: Bruynel, Ton

Zywa Now the hour?

Rumbling thunder, the world trembles
by heavenly hand, stormy air
shakes the earth
Consuming fire

enveloped in massive black smoke
from further than visible
strikes into the earth, burns
an anchor in its core

Is this the day of wrath, now

the hour, the breaking
of the seals, the seething
of the winds, the pounding
of the hearts?

Like war horses swarms of locusts
roar out of the smoke, they fume
sulphur, stab like scorpions
storm ahead and beat the drum

Stop

Poem 1699
Amsterdam, 2018-03-16
Column (Ton Bruynèl) - 1987
Composition, performed in the Organpark on March 2^nd, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Apocalypse
Composer: Bruynel, Ton

Zywa Touched tree

Move like little bells
leaves in the wind
blown, plucked

bend aside, participate
shake the trunk
dance on clubfeet

stamp the beat
sway my hair around
pose and ruckle

with the smallest branches
and slightly ruffle
my carrot heels

Poem 1196
Amsterdam, 2017-03-12
Touch (Ton Bruynèl) - 1979
Composition "Toccare", performed in the Organpark on March 2^nd, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Dance
Composer: Bruynel, Ton

Zywa Call of the owl

It starts in the little square
in the evening. Fresh air
The palms relax

Soft light from oil lamps
An owl calls, the snake-
charmer opens the baskets

blowing his whistle. Turmoil in the trees
a bird paradise. Slim
boys stretch themselves

The drum brings the wheel
in motion, a spider prince
puts his arms and legs

down on the tones of the flute
and dances around the time wheel
The snakes are raising

Just before I fall asleep
rolled up in my basket
the owl calls again

Poem 1701
Amsterdam, 2018-03-17
Serene (Ton Bruynèl) - 1978
Composition "Serène", performed in the Organpark on March 2^nd, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Evening
Composer: Bruynel, Ton

Zywa Song of the sea

Slowly I sink away, into the deep sea
the full sea: I get dizzy from shoals
of fish shooting away and still being there

In the light above me glides the white
ship of a swan over
the bubbles from my mouth

I hear cricket-song in the high grass
a seagull flies over, warning
and veering, waves roll up

tumble over each other
break and plunge in their trough
out of which I emerge breathing

Poem 1195
Amsterdam, 2017-03-11
Soft song (Ton Bruynèl) - 1974
Composition for oboe and 2 sound tracks, performed at the Organpark on March 2nd, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Life: survival (reflex)
Composer: Bruynel, Ton

Zywa Rainbow

No one paid attention
till the water poured over
the mountain ridge into the lake
It was raining all summer
a dense gray aerial

sea shed
as a world ocean
over the earth, a thick skin
of beating wood came flooding
up, do not mind the animals

Do not look for people
you knów
the old world
still bubbles up a bit
from the drowned trees

The water stretches
and tautens a flat mirror
under the sky and the rainbow
My boat floats
until it gets stranded

Poem 1700
Amsterdam, 2018-03-16
Arc (Ton Bruynèl) - 1966
Composition "Arc" (1966, Ton Bruynèl), for organ and 4 sound tracks, performed at the Organpark on Sunday, March 2nd, 2014
Turkey (Black Sea, 6300-6200 BCE)
Noah
Collections: ORG anp ark, A Home
Keywords: Life: survival (effort), Turkiye, Rainbow
Composer: Bruynel, Ton

Zywa Smithy

It grinds, sparks and flies
in a cave too large and too dark
to see, too deep to fathom
Signals
     shoot around
          in a paradoxical balance

Light-years are soughing past
a hammer bangs in the white noise
It crackles
     new systems
          of infinity

Stars bubble up, deep from the pan
they sparkle and search for a place in space
The universe is embossed
     Star strings spin away
          soughing through the non-existent

Alchemy of creation
Inside the flask it boils around
Melting pot
     Cauldron
          Magic brew

Curtains of matter fall
past, everything flies
far and small
     travelling to the nothingness
          that cannot come into being

Poem 1056
Amsterdam, 2017-02-21
Relief (Ton Bruynèl) - 1964
Composition "Reliëf", for organ and 4 soundtracks, performed in the Organpark on March 2nd, 2014
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Universe: energy
Composer: Bruynel, Ton

The meltwater hops

like a child through the valleys --

into the wide world.



Smeltwater huppelt	Das Schmelzwasser hüpft
als een kind door de dalen --	wie ein Kind durch die Täler --
vrij de wereld in.	in die weite Welt.

Poem H0646
Amsterdam, 2013-11-23
"Harmony of the spheres" - part IIIb (Joep Franssens) - 2001
Pythagoras: Musica universalis (Universal music)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Child: lust for life
Tribute to: Pythagoras
Composer: Franssens, Joep

Grazing peacefully,

they look up and back, the sheep --

continue grazing.



De schapen grazen	Die Schafe grasen
vredig, kijken op en om --	friedlich, schauen auf und um --
en grazen verder.	und grasen weiter.

Poem H0645
Amsterdam, 2013-11-23
"Harmony of the spheres" - part IIIa (Joep Franssens) - 2001
Pythagoras: Musica universalis (Universal music)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Peace: non-violent, Animals: sheep / lamb
Tribute to: Pythagoras
Composer: Franssens, Joep

Melancholic waltz

by Ives: a new love of mine --

is saying goodbye.



Weemoedig walsje	Walzerwehmut von
van Ives: een nieuwe liefde --	Ives: eine neue Liebe --
neemt afscheid van mij.	verabschiedet sich.

Poem H0582
Amsterdam, 2013-09-28
Waltz (Charles Ives) - 1922
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Dance, Melancholy (acquiescence)
Composer: Ives, Charles

Zywa Waterpit

Four organs depart together
They stride with trailing legs
dashing but arduous
They wear the hats
of higher authority

Their trailing legs reach
backwards, longer and thinner
Their shoulders drop down
diagonally forward

They fall, the high top hats
crawl ahead with arms
swinging and mowing
through sand becoming weak
and mudding into water

Floundering, they draw
smaller and smaller circles
A smooth skin of water encloses them
and pits in, erasing everything in waves

Poem 1070
Amsterdam, 2017-02-23
Four organs (Steve Reich) - 1970
Composition, performed in the Organpark on October 6^th, 2012, and October 9^th, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Death: dying
Composer: Reich, Steve

It's new: an organ,

it sounds big, I can feel it!

Miss, do you like that?



Iets nieuws: een orgel,	Oh, eine Orgel,
wat klinkt dat groot, ik voel het!	groß! Ich fühle es! Lehrer --
Juf, vind jij dat mooi?	gefällt Ihnen das?

Poem H0356
Amsterdam, 2012-09-28
Fourteen children attend the lunchtime concert in the Organpark on September 28^th, 2012
Published in: Timbres 17 (Spring 2015)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Music: vibration, Child: education

Reluctantly I

stride in front of the tuba --

that keeps pushing me.



Ik schrijd schoorvoetend	Im Trauerzug schreit
in de stoet voor de tuba --	ich zögernd vor die Tuba --
die maar blijft duwen.	die mich weiter treibt.

Poem H0268
Amsterdam, 2012-04-21
Thunderfish - 1530
Composition "Taundernaken" for cornett (wooden trumpetflute) and organ, performed in the Organpark on April 21st, 2012
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Death: cemetery / funeral

The organ bellows

sigh while breathing in and out --

the ancient music.



De orgelbalgen	Die Orgelbälge
zuchten bij het ademen --	seufzen leise beim Atmen --
van oude muziek.	der alten Musik.

Poem H0267
Amsterdam, 2012-04-21
Organism (Wouter Snoei) - 2012
Composition for organ, bellows stepper and electronics, performed in the Organpark on April 21st, 2012
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Old age: ailments / defects, Breath
Composer: Snoei, Wouter

The organ is big

and strong, the recorder screams --

shrill to save her life.



Het orgel is groot	Die Orgel ist groß
en sterk, de blokfluit krijst schril --	und stark, die Flöte bittet --
om haar lijfsbehoud.	schrill um ihr Leben.

Poem H0266
Amsterdam, 2012-04-21
Couple (Gijsbrecht Royé) - 2012
Composition "Span" for organ and recorder, performed in the Organpark on April 21st, 2012
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Power: mass
Composer: Roye, Gijsbrecht

Repeating circles

of the conductor's arms turn --

time into timeless.



Ronde na ronde	Runde nach Runde
dirigeren de armen --	dirigieren die Arme --
de tijd naar tijdloos.	die Zeit zu zeitlos.

Poem H0162
Amsterdam, 2012-01-22
Atlas of the apparent path of the sun (John Cage) - 1962
Composition "Atlas Eclipticalis", performed in the Organpark on January 22nd, 2012, on January 19th, 2019, and on January 15th, 2023
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Time: eternity
Composer: Cage, John

It's a concert trip:

the jungle sings, sea rustles --

stars are greeting me.



In de concertzaal	In dem Konzertsaal
reis ik: oerwoud zingt, zee ruist --	reise ich: Busch singt, See rauscht --
sterren groeten mij.	Sterne grüßen mich.

Poem H0161
Amsterdam, 2012-01-22
Voyager I (Dirk Veulemans) - 2012
Beginning of the composition "Voyager I", performed in its entirety in the Organpark on January 22nd, 2012
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: connects
Composer: Veulemans, Dirk

Twelve music boxes

softly repeating themselves --

far away like stars.



Twaalf muziekdoosjes	Leise wiederholen
herhalen zichzelf, zachtjes --	die zwölf Spieldosen sich selbst --
ver weg als sterren.	ferne wie Sterne.

Poem H0158
Amsterdam, 2012-01-21
Zodiac (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Composition "Tierkreis": Spieldose Wassermann 0:54, Spieldose Fische 1:12 ("Zodiac": music box Aquarius 0:54, music box Pisces 1:12, 1975, Karlheinz Stockhausen), performed by Ensemble SPECTRA in the Organpark on January 21st, 2012
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Order: pattern
Composer: Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Once there was no space,

until it ever arose --

as it always was.



Er was geen heelal,	Ein Universum
tot het ooit is geworden --	gab es nicht, bis es entstand --
wat het steeds al was.	gleichwie es schon war.

Poem S0032
Amsterdam, 2012-01-21
Star remnants (Willem Boogman) - 2008
Composition "Sternenrest", performed in the Organpark on January 21st, 2012
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Universe: all
Composer: Boogman, Willem

The crackling and noise

a loudspeaker-ring broadcasts:

Radio Cosmos.



Een luidsprekerkring	Ein Lautsprecherring
zendt geknetter en ruis uit:	sendet Geknatter und Rausch:
Radio Heelal.	Rundfunk Das Weltall.

Poem S0031
Amsterdam, 2012-01-21
Star remnants (Willem Boogman) - 2008
Composition "Sternenrest", performed in the Organpark on January 21st, 2012
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Universe: all
Composer: Boogman, Willem

It is all pastel,

the light, the music and I --

this very spring day.



Alles is pastel,	Alles ist Pastell,
het licht, de muziek en ik --	das Licht, die Musik und ich --
deze lentedag.	diesem Frühlingstag.

Poem H0053
Amsterdam, 2011-12-02
Sonata for two organs (Muzio Clementi) - 1832
Composition "Sonate per due organi", performed in the Organpark on December 2^nd, 2011 by Erwin Wieringa and Theo Hellema
Walls in pastel colours, stained-glass windows
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Harmony: balance
Composer: Clementi, Muzio

Lowering my voice,

with long tones, I keep pushing --

my sorrow outside.



Met dalende stem	Senkende Stimme,
en lange tonen duw ik --	die lange Töne schieben --
mijn verdriet uit mij.	meine Trauer hinaus.

Poem H0049
Amsterdam, 2011-11-30
O Our Lady (Henryk Górecki) - 1985
Prayer "O Domina nostra", performed by Irene Maessen (singing) and Leo van Doeselaar (organ) in the Organpark on November 30^th, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Sadness: express
Composer: Gorecki, Henryk

A very low tone

fills the corners of the hall --

The organ sings Om.



Een heel lage toon	Ein sehr tiefer Ton
vult de hoeken van de zaal --	füllt die Ecken des Saales --
Het orgel zingt Om.	Die Orgel singt Om.

Poem H0048
Amsterdam, 2011-11-30
O Our Lady (Henryk Górecki) - 1985
Beginning of the prayer "O Domina nostra", performed by Leo van Doeselaar (organ) in the Organpark on November 30^th, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: vibration
Composer: Gorecki, Henryk

Cheerful melodies

are dancing across the hall --

and we must sit still.



Door de zaal dansen	Durch den Saal tanzen
vrolijke melodieën --	fröhliche Melodien --
en wij zitten stil.	und wir sitzen still.

Poem H0025
Amsterdam, 2011-11-25
Symphony (Charles-Marie Widor) - 1878
"Cantabile" from the Symphonie pour orgue No. 6 (organ symphony, 1878, Charles-Marie Widor), played in the Organpark by Olivier Latry on November 25^th, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Playing: fun
Tribute to: Latry, Olivier
Composer: Widor, Charles-Marie

The coals are glowing,

they still remember the sun --

which they once have been.



Kooltjes gloeien op,	Die Kohlen glühen,
herinneren zich de zon --	denken noch an die Sonne --
die ze ooit waren.	die sie mal waren.

Poem H0024
Amsterdam, 2011-11-25
At Olivier Latry's performance in the Organpark on November 25^th, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Sun: life
Tribute to: Latry, Olivier

The wind is searching

to where he can fly away --

through an opening.



De wind zoekt en zoekt	Der Wind sucht und sucht
waarheen hij weg kan waaien --	wohin er wegwehen kann --
door een opening.	durch eine Öffnung.

Poem H0018
Amsterdam, 2011-11-19
An opening (Samuel Vriezen) - 2009
Composition, performed in the Organpark on November 19^th and 20^th, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Wind
Composer: Vriezen, Samuel

Outside it's chilly,

nobody there, just the wind --

breathing around me.



Het is kil buiten,	Draußen ist es kühl,
er is niemand, alleen wind --	nur der Atem des Windes --
die om mij ademt.	weht um mich herum.

Poem H0017
Amsterdam, 2011-11-20
An opening (Samuel Vriezen) - 2009
Composition, performed in the Organpark on November 19^th and 20^th, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Wind
Composer: Vriezen, Samuel

At night I hear ghosts:

I'm as afraid as they are --

that I don't see them.



's Nachts hoor ik spoken:	Wie die Gespenster
ik ben net zo bang als zij --	habe ich ebenso Angst --
dat ik hen niet zie.	sie nicht zu sehen.

Poem H0016
Amsterdam, 2011-11-20
An opening (Samuel Vriezen) - 2009
Composition, performed in the Organpark on November 19^th and 20^th, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Fear: fantasy
Composer: Vriezen, Samuel

The wind's whispering

a secret into my ears --

He has lost his way.



De wind fluistert steeds	Der Wind flüstert mir
een geheim in mijn oren --	stets ein Geheimnis ins Ohr --
Hij is de weg kwijt.	Er weiß nicht den Weg.

Poem H0015
Amsterdam, 2011-11-20
An opening (Samuel Vriezen) - 2009
Composition, performed in the Organpark on November 19^th and 20^th, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Wind
Composer: Vriezen, Samuel

The tones, gracefully

rising to the better one:

my whistling-kettle.



De tonen stijgen	Die Töne steigen
sierlijk naar het hoogste lied:	elegant zum höchsten Lied:
mijn fluitketeltje.	mein Wasserkessel.

Poem H0014
Amsterdam, 2011-11-20
Crawling - for organs (Samuel Vriezen) - 2011
Composition, performed in the Organpark on November 19^th and 20^th, 2011, and on October 31^st, 2015
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: song
Composer: Vriezen, Samuel

Peep toot ummm eak oooh:

four pipe organs are talking --

none of them has ears.



Piep tuut hmmm deuh oooh:	Pfiff Tut Hmmm Döh Oooh:
vier orgels zijn aan het woord --	es sind vier Orgeln am Wort --
en geen heeft oren.	keine hat Ohren.

Poem S0004
Amsterdam, 2011-11-19
Crawling - for organs (Samuel Vriezen) - 2011
Composition, performed in the Organpark on November 19^th and 20^th, 2011, and on October 31^st, 2015
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Communication (sending)
Composer: Vriezen, Samuel

Clouds passing over

the sun give life to the floor --

it breathes up and down.



Wolken voor de zon	Die Wolken bringen
brengen de vloer tot leven --	den Holzboden zum Leben --
laten hem zweven.	lassen ihn schweben.

Poem H0012
Amsterdam, 2011-11-19
Leadlight windows
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Illusions: perception

Zywa Seven Seals

Dying is rarely gentle, but
nobody is retelling it

Muscles don't think but do so much
their best to save the doomed body
that you on the contrary perish

with hellish torture, because
all of a sudden time slows down

to eternity while
on the strokes of the last
hour the sky starlessly

gets black from a new sun, which swells
up to redeeming nothingness

Please forget this, live as if
seven seals protect you
Forget there comes an end

and how then

Poem 1031
Amsterdam, 2017-02-17
Joost Langeveld improvises in the Organpark, with images of the Apocalypse
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Death: dying

The tones are dancing,

tumbling across each other --

never falling down.



De tonen dansen	Die Tone tanzen
buitelend over elkaar --	purzelnd über einander --
zonder te vallen.	ohne zu fallen.

Poem H0007
Amsterdam, 2011-10-21
Ben van Oosten plays pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Playing: fun
Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian

The pipes are playing

a peekaboo, chase and tag --

in the house of God.



De pijpen spelen	Die Pfeifen spielen
kiekeboe en tikkertje --	Kuckuck und Kettenfangen --
in het huis van God.	in dem Haus Gottes.

Poem H0006
Amsterdam, 2011-10-21
Ben van Oosten plays pieces by J.S. Bach in the Organpark on October 21^st, 2011
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: playful
Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian

The large pipe organ

rumbles doom, heading for me --

with its air soldiers.



Het grote orgel	Die große Orgel
komt doemdreunend op mij af --	dröhnt ganz böse auf mich hin --
met luchtsoldaten.	mit Luftsoldaten.

Poem H0005
Amsterdam, 2011-10-21
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Music: vibration
Composer: Bruckner, Anton

Zywa Fire

     I break and hammer, cleave and create
     my punches stretch, force the mark
     I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid
     of spiders, rats or rattlesnakes

I toil and sweat, I pant for breath
the water is startled and whines an outcry
the bellows insufflate, swell ans aspirate
the flaming white iron bends

     I break and hammer, cleave and create
     my punches stretch, force the mark
     I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid
     of open air or a long corridor

arc after arc my arm carries out
the wishes of my master's eye
I hammer harder to hard
beat sparks out of my burning heart

     I break and hammer, cleave and create
     my punches stretch, force the mark
     I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid
     of heights, neither of downfall

no sun is shining over here, there is no day
no morning, dusk or night, no time
is counting over here, just the sledgehammer blow
the rhythm of my punching strength

     I break and hammer, cleave and create
     my punches stretch, force the mark
     I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid
     of fears and their compulsion and urge

Poem 180
Amsterdam, 2011-10-09
On phobia (Luiz Henrique Yudo) - 2011
Composition, performance in the Organpark
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keyword: Fear: violence
Composer: Yudo, Luiz Henrique

Quietly I climb

up, while the wind curls thinly --

towards the White Tooth.



Rustig beklim ik	Leise steige ich
de berg, ijl kringelt de wind --	hinauf, der Wind kräuselt sich --
naar de Witte Tand.	dünn zum Weißen Zahn.

Poem H6116
Amsterdam, 2026-02-24
White Tooth Peak (Pieter de Mast) - 2004
Composition "La Dent Blanche", recorded in 2004 by the Windstreken Ensemble (Pieter de Mast, Jozef Dumoulin and Sandip Bhattacharya), and performed in the Organpark on March 31st, 2007 by Pieter de Mast (flute), Sebastiaan van Delft (harmonium), and Sandip Bhattacharya (percussion)
Mountain west of Zermatt (Switzerland)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Nature: landscape, Wind
Composer: De Mast, Pieter

A quiet weekend

at home, there's plenty of room --

for all my feelings.



Een rustig weekend	Ein Wochenende
thuis, er is alle ruimte --	zu Hause, es gibt Raum für --
voor mijn gevoelens.	meine Gefühle.

Poem H6115
Amsterdam, 2026-02-24
Sunday Afternoon (Pieter de Mast) - 2004
Composition, recorded by the Windstreken Ensemble (Pieter de Mast, Jozef Dumoulin and Sandip Bhattacharya), and performed in the Organpark on March 31st, 2007 by Pieter de Mast (flute), Sebastiaan van Delft (harmonium), and Sandip Bhattacharya (percussion)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Calm: space, Feelings (undergo)
Composers: Du Mosch, Marlies; De Mast, Pieter

The heath is hazy,

fringed by snow-capped spruce trees, with --

deer eyes in between.



De hei is heiig,	Diesige Heide,
omzoomd door witte sparren --	gesäumt von weißen Fichten --
met hertenogen.	Hirschaugen darin.

Poem H6102
Amsterdam, 2026-02-14
High Fens (Pieter de Mast) - 2004
Composition "Hautes Fagnes" (on the northern edge of the Ardennes), recorded in 2004 by the Windstreken Ensemble (Pieter de Mast, Jozef Dumoulin and Sandip Bhattacharya), and performed twice in the Organpark: on March 31st, 2007 by Pieter de Mast (flute), Sebastiaan van Delft (harmonium), and Sandip Bhattacharya (percussion), and on February 14th, 2026 by Pieter de Mast (flute), Sebastiaan van Delft (harmonium), and Modar Salama (percussion)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Nature: landscape, Animals: deer / roe
Composer: De Mast, Pieter

We elegantly

sing a duet, dancing with --

love and happiness.



Elegant zingen	Anmutig singen
we een duet, dansend van --	wir ein Duett und tanzen --
liefde en geluk.	vor Liebe und Glück.

Poem H6101
Amsterdam, 2026-02-14
Duet (Georg Rhau) - 1520
Improvisation on the composition "Bicinium", recorded in 2004 by the Windstreken Ensemble (Pieter de Mast, Jozef Dumoulin and Sandip Bhattacharya), and performed twice in the Organpark: on March 31st, 2007 by Pieter de Mast (flute), Sebastiaan van Delft (organ), and Sandip Bhattacharya (percussion), and on February 14th, 2026 by Pieter de Mast (flute), Sebastiaan van Delft (Molzer-organ), and Modar Salama (percussion)
Collection: ORG anp ark
Keywords: Love: harmony, Happiness (beauty)
Composers: Rhau, Georg; De Mast, Pieter

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