Neem Mijn Tijd
Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, 2022
The Listening Project
Take My Time is a project created with elderly people from Amsterdam North. Through Deep Listening workshops, we engaged in conversations about time, the experience of time, and listening to time. These conversations were recorded onto analog tape music (made in the Willem 2 studio in Den Bosch) and presented in a large pink tent during Open Oscillator fesitval, accompanied with a risoleaflet we made together.
The piece is a reference to Delia Derbyshire’s work Four Inventions for Radio, which she created in the 1960s. In this piece, she asked people from all walks of life to reflect on big themes such as God, the Afterlife, Aging, and Dreams. It was the first time that working-class voices were heard on the radio. Combined with her experimental analog tape music, this caused quite a stir. However, the brilliant piece was never credited to her, but to her male employer, Berry Barmange.
This project was a collaboration with Roos Pollmann and Rosalie Wammes.