Music for strings & silk - laboration piece for 1-99 people (2022)

Created while Composer in residence at The Gerlesborg School of Fine Art nov 2022

Premiered by Bohuslän Big Bang and R.Grankull 26th of Nov -22 

This piece is an interactive acoustic sound installation. With the materials silkthreads and stringed instruments, which act as resonating boxes, a gigantic spatial instrument is formed that the participants gets to know through the work of their hands, with sound, form and perception. The path of the silk threads through the room creates a visual composition, while its main purpose is to be a sound installation aimed at all curious, amateurs and professionals alike. No previous knowledge is required.

With the piece, a musical event is created that embracest that everyone, depending on previous experience, can create sound and music and that we depend on listening as an element of dialogue in society.

It is as much a social situation as a work of art, a sound installation as a collective improvisation.

Everyone is a co-creator and a musician. Listening as a method for Peace.  

Performances

Music for Strings & Silk No.1 - Gerlesborg, Nov 2022

Music for Strings & Silk No.2 - Härnösand Nymus festival, April 2023 

Music for Strings & Silk No.3 - Faroe Islands, WNMD 2024, June 2024

Music for Strings & Silk No.4 - Glasgow Scotland, Nordic Music Days Oct - Nov 2024

Music for Strings & Silk No.5 - Frontside festival, Jan 2025

Music for Strings & Silk No.6 - Hvitfeldtska gymnasiet, March 2025

Upcoming 

Music for Strings & Silk No.7 - New York, private arrangement autumn 2025

Music for Strings & Silk No.8 -Sound Spaces Festival Malmö 9-10 of Oct 

The Danish classical music journalist Jens Cornelius came and visited the interactive installation 'Music for Strings & Silk' (2022) at ISCM World New Music Days 2024 in the Faroe Islands

Link to report and interview:

http://www.jenscornelius.dk/iscm-world-new-music-days-paa-faeroeerne-2/

Instructions to build Music for Strings & Silk