Passing Place Consert

James, Sven and Jana´s collaboration came about through the work with the project Passing Place, a theatre performance by Mobile Homes, directed by Zoe Christiansen, where they created the sounds, music and technology for the performances.

 

James has specially composed piano pieces for this project, Jana has made recordings in various locations in the North Sea, Barents sea, the Norwegian coast and from a research trip for the project to Greenland, Sven has worked with electronic and archived historical sounds and with the distribution of the sound in the space.

 

They are combining piano, field recording and electronics  in a live setting as a concert, interacting with each other, the space and place they are playing in and the relation to the project the collaboration sprung out of.

 

Jana Winderen researches the hidden depths with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of ice crevasses are brought to the surface.

 

 

Sven Erga takes his musical departure in sounds from historical events in the area surrounding the North Atlantic, as well as sound events from the staged performance of Passing Place. He is also introduces electronics to recycle and transform musical events in the actual musical performance. 

 

Interspersed with and performed alongside Sven and Jana's soundscapes are a series of piano pieces by James Clapperton. These include short works depicting the purity of the arctic landscape based on the musical harmonic series. There are also sections based on Norsk folketoner entitled "Draumkvedet". These are contrasted by more turbulent music which accompanies Amundsen's moments of inner confusion and doubt