Muziekth. Transparant & Spectra Ens. & Triatu & VocaalLAB Nedl - M. Strindlund

He and She, each with their own memories in two different worlds. Will they get on the same wavelength? She is experiencing intensely emotional Sapphic poetry, reminisces, talks about desire. He is at a turning point. His words are no more than scraps of memory strung together; he rewrites the past. Her language is narrative, like the memory of the ancient civilisation of the West. His language falters, it is the language of the memory of the modern age. 'An Index of Memories' is a scenic concert on memory and its emotions. It is all based on the writings left us by the ancient Greek poetess Sappho. Love, erotic desire and the hope it expresses are emotional memories of all ages. Annelies Van Parys had already set several of Sappho's poems to music. They form the starting point for a full-length composition in which past and present come into contact and complement each other. Caroline Petrick stretches the concept of the 'scenic concert' to the limit. Somewhere between scene and concert, space and the absence of it, and between index and memory, she seeks out a way in which music can be conceived.