Please Answer When it Rings is an art experience, where the audience literally steps into the world created by the artists. In an exhibition combined with a dance-theatre performance, shown at Expoost in Hoorn. Jort Faber (physical artist) and Bram Stoof (painter) bring painting, dance, the 17th and 20th centuries, and their artistic process literally within reach, guided by the music of Lewis Knight.
Experience, engagement, and interaction are central, with the main theme: “How far do you let something go before you take action?” Designed for audiences aged 10 to 99, the production consists of an eight-week exhibition accompanied by ten dance-theatre performances exploring this theme in different ways.
How i work
For this immersive dance and theatre production i composed and produced the music as a slowly unfolding sonic world in which the characters are left to drown in their own madness. The score supports a sense of gradual psychological collapse rather than sudden chaos, allowing madness to seep in over time.
My research focused on the emotional states surrounding madness , obsession and the loss of grip on reality. I explored how these emotions manifest subtly, through cycles that repeat too long, tensions that never fully resolve, and a constant pull between control and collapse. These ideas became the emotional foundation of the music.
The sound palette is built through a hybrid approach, combining analog and digital production methods. Digital synthesis and processing are used to slowly distort, stretch, and destabilize these sounds, mirroring the psychological unraveling within the characters.