124 Years of Reverb | Ruhrtriennale 2025

In the organizer's words:

Acoustic, architectural, almost otherworldly.

124 Years of Reverb is a meditative sound journey through eight hours of organ music - composed by Jonny Greenwood, guitarist of Radiohead and The Smile. The venue: the monumental "Bergmannsdom" in Essen-Katernberg, built in 1901 - a room full of reverb, history and light. The organists James McVinnie and Eliza McCarthy unfold the entire frequency spectrum of the historic Wilhelm Sauer organ - inspired by South Indian carnatic music, slowly, floating, layer by layer. The audience can come, stay or go - at any time.

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The Ruhrtriennale is the festival of the arts in the Ruhr region - a festival for all those who yearn for tomorrow. Touching experiences of music theater, drama, dance and more are created between machine halls and blast furnaces.

Price information:

Pupils, trainees and students up to the age of 30, people doing federal voluntary service and the unemployed receive a 50% discount - on presentation of proof.