"Pastoral" Art Bridge - Sound Bridge

Art bridge with Beethoven

In spring 2020, a tiny but powerful virus succeeded in hermetically sealing borders, preventing contact with neighbours, and bringing all cultural life to a standstill - in the Beethoven anniversary year 2020, of all years, when artists around the world are following the appeal of the Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres and sending a powerful signal for the preservation of nature and creation with Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, the "Pastoral".
In the fourth year of its existence, the Höri Musiktage had planned an extensive, cross-border Beethoven Festival for 2020, with the international festival orchestra and outstanding soloists, with summer open air concerts, masterly chamber concerts, family concerts and musical surprises around the Augustiner Chorherrenstift Öhningen and on the lakeside - and with Beethoven's "Pastorale" in a barn. 
The pastoral art bridge remains. It stands firm as a rock, defies restrictions on contacts and prohibitions on events, connects churches and brings viewers together in the border towns of Stein am Rhein (CH) and Öhningen (DE), is an unshakable symbol of cohesion, togetherness and cooperation, but also of shared responsibility.
Daniel Gallmann's "Pastorale" stands for the preservation of nature and creation. The work here forms the keynote to Beethoven's 6th symphony, the "Pastorale", which will be heard in this installation alongside other works.
The Art Bridge invites us to reflect on ourselves, to pause, to listen to the sounds of our souls, to the sound of images and the sound of music.