{"id":97,"date":"2017-05-01T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T08:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clicmusikr.cluster017.ovh.net\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2023-09-21T19:50:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:50:53","slug":"ishango","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/opera-music-theater\/ishango\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishango Oratorio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A performance featuring music, jazz music , classical choir, dance and story telling about the jungle of Africa (also Bengal), the metaphoric\u00a0 animal short stories, the Ishango bone, as well as political subjects such as the child or the woman of Africa<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Video of &#8216;Shuopoka&#8217; on YouTube \u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/youtu.be\/c1keZ6gPdhM?si=6q_kNDiCh9Kgyxkz<\/h3>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/b\/s!AhZLo3TFhkcTtu0pD2TopYX0kVR7wA?e=gLWJZs\">Fran\u00e7ais: Le programme de Ishango Oratorio en Fran\u00e7ais<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_641\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-641\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ishango_Namur_201220603_01-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ishango_Namur_201220603_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ishango_Namur_201220603_01-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ishango_Namur_201220603_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ishango_Namur_201220603_01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ishango_Namur_201220603_01-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ishango_Namur_201220603_01-267x200.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ishango Performance, direction Dirk Bross\u00e9. Grand Man\u00e8ge, Namur , June 3, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-597 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Daniepotrait_Steph-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-598 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Peter-Gabriel-1121027120-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"179\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-595 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Nawasadio_Ange-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Musical themes<\/strong> <strong>Composed<\/strong> by\u00a0 Daniel Schell, Peter Gabriel,\u00a0 Chris Joris and Ange Nawasadio.<\/div>\n<div><strong>Choir Music<\/strong> written by Daniel Schell on the text of various poets from Africa &#8211; Gcina Mhlophe (South Afrika, in Zulu), Chirikure Chirikure (Zimbabwe, in Shona), Titinga Pacere (Burkina Faso, in More), &#8211; and India &#8211; Lokenath Bhattacharya (Bengal, in Bengali).<\/div>\n<div><strong>Musical Director<\/strong>: Dirk Bross\u00e9.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-596 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brosse_Dirk-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brosse_Dirk-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brosse_Dirk-142x200.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brosse_Dirk-rotated.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><strong>Artistic Producer<\/strong>: Pascal No\u00ebl<\/div>\n<div><strong>Cavema, Choir of Namur, Producer<\/strong>: Jean-Marie Marchal<\/div>\n<div><strong>Visuals<\/strong>: Fabienne Penninck<\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/grandmanege.be\/fr\/concerts\/64-ishango-oratorio\">Info and Booking<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Part of the NAFRICA Festival<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Features: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-594 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CCN_03-300x238.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CCN_03-300x238.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CCN_03-1024x814.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CCN_03-768x610.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CCN_03-1536x1221.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CCN_03-2048x1627.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CCN_03-252x200.jpeg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cavema.be\/en\/choeur-de-chambre\">Choeur de Chambre de Namur<\/a><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-600 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Raphaelle_Green_01-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Raphaelle_Green_01-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Raphaelle_Green_01-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Raphaelle_Green_01-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Raphaelle_Green_01-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Raphaelle_Green_01-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Raphaelle_Green_01-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Soloist<\/strong>: Mezzo Rapha\u00eblle Green<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jazz Musicians<\/strong> with Fabrice Alleman (sax), Marco Locurcio (guitar, electronics), Chris Mentens (bass), Michel Seba (drums).<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Choeur de Namur<\/strong> with Soprano -Aur\u00e9lie CASTIN, Marie-Agn\u00e8s JEAN, Lucie MINAUDIER, Am\u00e9lie RENGLET\/ Alti-Pauline DE LANNOY, Sonia JACQUELIN, Julie VERCAUTEREN\/ Tenors:Murielle Maria, Andreas HALLING, Branislav RAKIC, Michael L. SMITH, &#8211; Basses : Laurent BOURDEAUX, Sergio LADU, Alberto MARTINEZ, Samuel NAMOTTE<\/li>\n<li><strong>The African Choir<\/strong> with Ange Nawasadio (story teller), Amel Sdiri (Choir Director) Sylvie Nawasadio, Kwame Nawasadio, Madina Dicko, Zil Zuh, Diane Sangar\u00e9, Blandine Mushiya Luabala..<\/li>\n<li><strong>African Percussion<\/strong> Ensemble with\u00a0 Zenon Kazanzi, Manu Niekemia, Manu Nicaba (jembe, various melodic instruments).<br \/>\nScientific advisor: Dirk Huylebrouck, Vladimir Pletser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>CD: &#8216;Ishango&#8217; Lyrae, Universal. Choeur de Namur (70 singers)Dir. Denis Meunier, , Chris Joris Ensemble. Dieudonn\u00e9 Kabong Ensemble. <a href=\"https:\/\/lyraemusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/oratorio-ishango-2cd\">Album Oratotio Ishango<\/a><br \/>\nThe Oratorio Ishango was created in Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, in November 2001, under the Direction of Denis Meunier. Then Maison de la Culture d&#8217;Arlon, September 2003, Capitole, Ghent November 2003. Th\u00e9atre St Michel, Brussels, Nov 2003. Zuiderspershuis, Antwerp, December 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/images\/artists\/Choir_small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Choir from Namur<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/images\/artists\/Joris_small.jpg\" \/> Chris Joris \u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/images\/artists\/Schell_small.jpg\" \/> Daniel Schell<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><strong>The Ishango bone as an inspiration source<\/strong><br \/>\nOne of the interesting aspects of the Ishango bone is that it is engraved with bars which could be part of a mathematical enigma. We could have established a direct correspondence between the mathematics of the bone and the music. For instance, we could have used groups of 6 bars, followed by then 10, 12, establishihing a direct mapping between the bars of the bones and the bars of the music. But such process seems childish and\u00a0 is not to be found in the composition. The approach we used, and found more interesting,\u00a0 is to consider that the bone is a sign of intelligence in the early Africa, and that similar signs could be found today in the memoria humana, for instance in traditional stories and tales.\u00a0 In order to investigate this hypothesis, we have contacted prominent poets, mostly of Africa, and one of Bengal ( Bengal has also a jungle) and asked them for stories having a character of an archetype. We have discovered with them many metaphoric stories about the jungle, the animals, or the social characters. Some of them, like the story of the two eyes of the lion (see Pacere), seemed to us as old or even older than the Ishango bone&#8230;In this respect, we have considered that the engravings of the Ishango bone just tell us one of these eternal tales.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poets of the spectacle Ishango<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The texts of the following poets have been set into music by Daniel Schell for the Choeur de Namur, in order to create the spectacle Ishango.<\/p>\n<h3>Gcina Mhlophe<\/h3>\n<p>South Africa.\u00a0 Languages Zulu and English.<br \/>\nSinger, story-teller and poet.<br \/>\nVery popular in South Africa, she is the author of numerous\u00a0 tales on the animal world. She is also a politically active figure in the defence of African women&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the spectacle : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/orchestral\/ishango\/african-woman\/\">African Woman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/orchestral\/ishango\/u-fudukazi-uzokumangaza\/\">U fudukazi the tortoise.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/images\/artists\/Gcina2.jpg\" \/>Gcina Mhlophe<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Chirikure Chirikure<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Zimbabwe. Languages Shona and English.<\/p>\n<p>Born 1962. In a rural area of Zimbabwe, in a Christian family but also close to traditional. Writes poems in Shona and presents them in High School. After his University graduate, he starts to perform all over the country and presents his poetry either with Traditional mbira band, or with an electric modern band.<\/p>\n<p>Being a performer himself he plays for middle class audiences, and so he regrets that he does not touch the people from the villages. He considers himself as the poet of a Society in transition<\/p>\n<p>His poetry is studied at Oxford and other known Anglo-Saxons Universities.<\/p>\n<p>Music: Daniel Schell on themes by Chris Joris.<br \/>\n<strong>In the spectacle : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/orchestral\/ishango\/lizards-for-fish-dzvinyu-kutsiva-hove\/\">Lizzards for fish<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/orchestral\/ishango\/mhakure-the-cobra\/\">Mhakure the Cobra<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/images\/artists\/Chirikure_Schell_may_06-light.jpg\" width=\"587\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chirikure and Daniel Schell (Photo Clic Music)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Titinga Frederic Pacere<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Burkina Faso. Languages More and French.<br \/>\nWriter of poetry\u00a0 and ethnography treaties on the meaning of masks, the language of tam tam and the practises of the More people. Pacere has been one of the most important contributor on the Ishango project. Specially important is the usage of tam-tams as a mean and language of communication in and between the village-s.\u00a0 In his poetry &#8216;The Ishango bone&#8217; , Pacere suggests that column 1 and 3 of the bone sum up to 60, but column 2 to 48 . He asks &#8216;Where is the difference&#8217; suggesting poetically a difference of 12, which is in fact the base of the antique\u00a0 calculation.<br \/>\nHe founded the Museum of African Masks in Ouagadougou.<br \/>\nHe is active in the defense of Human Rights in Africa. The Unicef has asked him to write a poem on the African child.<br \/>\n<strong>In the spectacle :<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/orchestral\/ishango\/kamaange-kob-ra-weongo-le-chien-voleur\/\">Kamaange Le chien voleur<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/orchestral\/ishango\/kamaange-kob-ra-weongo-le-chien-voleur\/\">Nina Yibu Le lion<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/orchestral\/ishango\/kamaange-kob-ra-weongo-le-chien-voleur\/\"> Le po\u00e8me du tam-tam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/orchestral\/ishango\/il-est-des-enfants\/\">Il est des enfants<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/orchestral\/ishango\/the-ishango-bone\/\">The Ishango Bone<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clicmusic.be\/ishango_bone-pacere.php\">\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/images\/artists\/Pacere-Dan.jpg\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/images\/artists\/Pacere-port.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDaniel Schell &amp; Titinga Pacere (Photo Clic Music)<\/p>\n<h3>Lokenath Bhattacharya<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-577\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bhattacharya_Lokenath-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bhattacharya_Lokenath-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bhattacharya_Lokenath-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bhattacharya_Lokenath-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bhattacharya_Lokenath.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait du po\u00e8te indien Lokenath Bhattacharya le 7 mai 1997 en France. (Photo by Louis MONIER\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>India (Bengal), France. Language: Bengali.<br \/>\nThis well known poet has a large oeuvre. He has translated the poetry of Henri Michaux in Bengali language. Living in Paris, he represented there the Bengali litterary life.<br \/>\nHe died recently in Egypt in a car accident.<br \/>\n<strong>In the spectacle : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/orchestral\/ishango\/shuopoka-la-chenille\/\">Shuopoka, la chenille<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bone of Ishango<br \/>\nThe bone of Ishangowas found in Africa in the years 1950 by Professor Heinzelin. It was situated in the village of Ishango, at the source of the Nil, between congo and Ouganda.\u00a0 It is 20.000 years old and can be considered as one of the first sign of a human intelligence. It is covered by marks &#8211; bar codes? &#8211;\u00a0 which could be a\u00a0 remarkable mathemathical enigma. It can be seen in the Museum of Natural History, Rue Vauthier in Brussels. Recently, the City of Brussels, has choosen the Ishango bone as a symbol of fraternity against racism.<br \/>\nDirk Huylebrouck has written extensively over the Ishango bone. His most recent contribuution is in Kadath, April 2003 (in French).<\/p>\n<p>The mathematics of the bone<\/p>\n<p>Aparent number of bars per column (not always clear)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st column 11\u00a0 &#8211; 13 &#8211; 17 &#8211; 19<\/li>\n<li>2d column 3 &#8211; 6 &#8211; 4 &#8211; 8 &#8211; 10 (grouped as 9 + 1 ) &#8211; 5 ( grouped as 1 + 4 ) &#8211; 5 &#8211; 7<\/li>\n<li>3rd column\u00a0 11 &#8211; 21 &#8211; 19 &#8211; 9<\/li>\n<li>Possible Operations<\/li>\n<li>In base 6<\/li>\n<li>1st col 11=12-1 13=12+1 . 17=18-1 19=18+1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In base 12<\/p>\n<p>The Sum per column: 60. 48 , 60<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>1st col:11 + 13 + 17 + 19 = 60<\/li>\n<li>2d col: 3 + 6 + 4 + 8 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 7 = 48<\/li>\n<li>3rd col: 11 + 21 + 19 + 9 = 60<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>with 60 = 5*12\u00a0 and\u00a0 48=4*12<\/p>\n<p>In base 10<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3rd col : 11=10+1\u00a021=2*10+1\u00a0\u00a0 19=20-1\u00a0 9=10-1<\/li>\n<li>2nd col : 6+4=10\u00a0\u00a07+3=10\u00a0\u00a0 5+5=10 .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>multiplication by a factor of 2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2d col:\u00a0 6=3*2 8=4*2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All these calculations are speculations. The correspondence is not always uniform on the bone. For instance not all pair of numbers of column 2 sum up to 10. The number of bars is also not absolutely clear on the bone. Nevertheless, there is a remarkable evidence of intelligence and the possibility of a counting process, maybe in base 6\/12, and that some 20.000 years ago. And that was enough to trigger our poetical creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Notes by Daniel Schell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A performance featuring music, jazz music , classical choir, dance and story telling about the jungle of Africa (also Bengal), the metaphoric\u00a0 animal short stories, the Ishango bone, as well as political subjects such as the child or the woman of Africa Video of &#8216;Shuopoka&#8217; on YouTube \u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/youtu.be\/c1keZ6gPdhM?si=6q_kNDiCh9Kgyxkz Fran\u00e7ais: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions\/688"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielschell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}