Natura Rebellis
. . Music for 3 voices

Anat Spiegel, Kevin Walton, Jannes Coessens

Created for the installation by Marjolijn Dijkman, the singers evoke memories from poets celebrating nature, reveling in the forest but the forest always wins, it always overcomes.

Between the Lines/Natura Rebellis is an installation by artist Marjolijn Dijkman and composer Henry Vega. In dialogue with a poetic film essay, a robot orchestra drums on dead tree trunks from a protected forest near Verdun. After the First World War, this area was designated a “Red Zone”: it was ecologically devastated and is still littered with ammunition and the forgotten bodies of 80,000 soldiers. This multimedia artwork shows how a landscape struggles with the aftermath of human conflict, against a backdrop of drought and climate change. Henry Vega provided the music for the robot orchestra and also wrote the occasionally intervening tandem work Natura Rebellis for three singers.