A concert installation for 6 audio islands, 4 instruments, 2 voices and electronic sound processing

Premiered 10th of March 2017

‘Lemuria’ draws not only upon the myth of the lost sivilization, but also a movement from Luigi Nono’s work “Guai ai gelidi mostri”, one of the many points in his oeuvre where the notion of islands occur.

“Lemuria” employs this island motif as metaphor in its broadest sense: as a concept for sound distribution, as an ideal for the placement of musicians and audience and as a compositional strategy. Built up from isolated sounds and material types, the work was developed independantly by the performers, then later combined into textures highlighting different aspects of the performance space.

The piece is performed from 6 “islands” spaced out through the venue. Each island is a station manned by a performer, two speakers and a light source. Each performer is both soloist and ensemble as the music reconfigures the site and the sound across the span of the performance. Audience can choose to sit or move through different positions as they please. Lemuria was comissioned by and premiered at the Borealis festival in Bergen in March 2017.