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Tine Surel Lange/Damkapellet: En skog av lyd Lydbrøndene

GRATIS EVENT

The Danish-Norwegian composer and interdisciplinary artist Tine Surel Lange's En skog av lyde is a site-specific sound work for the Danish music collective Damkapellet and Lydbrøndene – the sound wells – 32 underground speakers placed underneath Bent Fabricius Bjerre's square in Copenhagen. The work is inspired by the way in which individual, scattered trees slowly grow into a forest, and by the way in which the fungus mycorrhiza functions as a symbiotic network between plant roots which enables them to mutually communicate, exchange nutrients, and warn each other of dangers.

Lange says: "When I was in Denmark for the first time as a child, having until then only seen small, contorted birch trees in Northern Norway, it was a wonder to me that the enormous beech trees could grow so infinitely high without toppling over. Today I still find them tremendously impressive.” The work consists of a combination of field recordings made in Danish beech forests and complementary instrumental sounds that intertwine as the trees do underground – connected through networks that have functioned for millions of years, but which, due to the ravages of human beings and their unbalanced relationship to nature, are becoming more and more unstable. When the trees with the largest and widest network are cut down, the network is destroyed, and important communication is lost. The sound wells is the ideal space for such a work: When Lange looks at a map of the sound wells, their location, and how they are connected, she imagines a forest with a network of wires connecting all the speakers.

Supported by:

ARTS & CULTURE NORWAY, COMMISSIONED BY KL ANG FESTIVAL, IN COLLABORATION WITH LYDBRØNDENE.

Photo: Hipermania 
 

Venue

Lydbrøndene

Bent Fabricius-Bjerres Plads 2000 Frederiksberg

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Artists

Tine Surel Lange (1989)

Norwegian composer and interdisciplinary artist, whose work is rooted in organic material – with a focus on listening, space, and how connotations color how we listen to and experience art.

Damkapellet

Musician- and composer collective with a mission to advance diversity on the Danish music scene. The collective performs music by women, non-binary, and transgender people, and experiments with collective co-creation of music.