Brigitta van Bilderbeek

Music

Songs recorded in rooms

Each song is treated as a work rather than a product, a document of a place at an hour, with its walls left audible.

Joni Mitchell, Blue (1971) album cover
A touchstone: Joni Mitchell, Blue
The piano corner of the studio
The piano corner, where the songs are recorded

I

Vigil

2025 · 5:12 · Voice, upright piano, room

Recorded in one take at dusk, with the window open. The city is audible in the second verse and was kept.

I left the light on in the hallway / so the house would know I meant to return.

II

Stone Chapel

2025 · 4:03 · Voice, harmonium, field recording

Built from a recording of rain against a chapel door in Galicia. The harmonium was tuned to the door.

Every road becomes a corridor / if you walk it long enough.

III

Almería

2024 · 6:40 · Voice, strings, tape

The companion piece to the painting of the same journey. Written before the canvas, finished long after.

The heat kept the door shut / and I stood there anyway.

IV

Blue Hour

2026 · 3:47 · Unreleased

Forthcoming. A single sustained chord and a text about a colour that will not sit still.

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Films, journal and performances

Films

Single-take films made alongside the recordings, a window, a wall, a hand on the keys. Screened occasionally, never streamed.

Studio journal

Notes kept during recording: weather, tunings, false starts, the hour the light left the room. Published in fragments within Interior Castle.

Performances

Performed in chapels, courtyards and unlit galleries, for small numbers of people, usually at dusk. Dates announced by letter.

Forthcoming

Blue Hour, a record of four songs and one sustained chord, arriving when it is finished.

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