Earth Workers Requiem/Jubilate
Spatial Composition
Title | Earth Workers Requiem/Jubilate
Concept | by Micha Hamel & Jonas Staal
Commissioned by | Studio Jonas Staal
Conservator | Floris van Alebeek
Type | Spatial Music Composition
Date | 9 November 2024 - 9 March 2025
Location | Het Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch
Architecture | Paul Kuipers
Sound Design | Tomas Valeĉka
Graphic Design | Remco van Bladel
Project Coordinator | Nadine Gouders
Teamhoofd | Ingrid Sonderen
Construction | Het Noordbrabants Museum (Ton van der Heijden & team)
Photography | Ruben Hamelink
Images process | Paul Kuipers
Text | Jonas Staal
Earth Workers Requiem/Jubilate
Earth Workers Requiem/Jubilate consists of a musical composition by Micha Hamel and an installation by Jonas Staal that honors human and non-human Earth Workers across deep pasts, presents and futures.
Hamel’s musical composition, inspired by geological epochs, features a six-hour electronic score interwoven with live instrumental and vocal interventions. Staal’s installation comprises a fossil landscape formed by pyramids of motor oil and ammonite fossils representing the earth’s ancient past and woven banners depicting rare life forms that thrive in climate catastrophe: the impoverished fossil archives of the future.