Voyagers

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Voyagers

Marjolijn van Heemstra & Pynarello

A poetic concert about how we want to be remembered

In 1977 two space probes, Voyager 1 & 2, took off on a scientific mission to the edge of our solar system. When this mission was completed, another stranger mission began.

Jupiter's gravity hurled the Voyagers into interstellar space where they will shoot through the cosmos at a speed of fifteen kilometers per second for a billion years. On board sits a message from us here on Earth. A message in a bottle, for someone or something on the other side, in the form of a Golden Record: our words, our songs, our sunset engraved on a gold gramophone record. A ‘best of earth’ in ninety minutes of audio and just over a hundred images. On the way to something we will never know or understand but where we will be present in a sense. Thanks to this small hit parade by the third planet from the sun.

In a poetic concert, Marjolijn van Heemstra and Pynarello explore in language and music what this cosmic message in a bottle tells us about who we are and how we will one day be remembered in a galaxy far away.

Marjolijn van Heemstra (1981) is a writer and theater maker, with a great fascination for space. In the past year she wrote a series for the Correspondent about how space can help us to look at ourselves and the earth with new eyes.

"Van Heemstra is an inspired storyteller" (Trouw)

"Calming, abrasive and hypnotising" (Volkskrant)

Rebel collective Pynarello shows that classical music can be done differently; more adventurous, more spontaneous, more direct, without a conductor and without sheet music. Five Pynarelli are writing their own music especially for this performance.

"The dynamics that are produced by all of this was wonderfully tangible and audible" (Trouw)