You’re somehow connected
Experience you’re somehow connected, an audiovisual multichannel piece about connections across time and space, situated in Elsinore’s beautiful shipyards. The piece is created by composer Lil Lacy in collaboration with scenographer Jon R. Skulberg and electronic composer Tobias Sejersdahl.
Surrounded by 34 speakers and placed centrally in five chairs, the audience is invited inside Hall 19, in Elsinore’s old shipyard. Here smoke, daylight, new classical music, electronic sound and voices merge into an intimate experience for just five people at a time.
Inspired by August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, where Agnes, the Vedic God daughter, sinks towards the Earth in the attempt to understand humans, their agony and dreams, you’re somehow connected explores the matter of being through sound, light and air.
In the piece, manipulated field recordings of the body, skin and breathing is incorporated – as well as interviews with five people of different generations, nationalities and places about their dreams of the future: Student Simran Skulberg de Souza (NO) in Bergen, college student Paulina Shtanko (BY) in Sct. Petersburg, visual artist Mohau Modisakeng (ZA) in Johannesburg, composer Marcos Balter (BR) in New York and writer Suzanne Brøgger (DK) in Copenhagen.
The music is composed for accordion soloist Bjarke Mogensen and an ensemble of 14 musicians.
you’re somehow connected opened Aarhus Festuge 2021, as a live concert in Store Sal, Musikhuset, Aarhus. The piece has been recorded in a special circular arrangement in collaboration with the internationally acknowledged sound producer Preben Iwan.
INFO
Only 5 seats per concert
Duration: 75 min – thi scan vary
NB: There is no acces to this with a wheelchair
FREE ACCES WITH A PASSAGE FESTIVAL-WRISTBAND
If you have a festival-wristband you can expereince you’re somehow connected for free. Write us at pr@helsingor-teater.dk for more info on how to get a ticket. Tickets are offered on a first come, first served basis due to the limited number of audience seats.
In 2022 you’re somehow connected is further developed into an audiovisual multichannel piece for 34 speakers and an audience of five, at Kulturværftet, Elsinore, and can be experienced from July 28 through August 28.
Experience you’re somehow connected, an audiovisual multichannel piece about connections across time and space, situated in Elsinore’s beautiful shipyards. The piece is created by composer Lil Lacy in collaboration with scenographer Jon R. Skulberg and electronic composer Tobias Sejersdahl.
Surrounded by 34 speakers and placed centrally in five chairs, the audience is invited inside Hall 19, in Elsinore’s old shipyard. Here smoke, daylight, new classical music, electronic sound and voices merge into an intimate experience for just five people at a time.
Inspired by August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, where Agnes, the Vedic God daughter, sinks towards the Earth in the attempt to understand humans, their agony and dreams, you’re somehow connected explores the matter of being through sound, light and air.
In the piece, manipulated field recordings of the body, skin and breathing is incorporated – as well as interviews with five people of different generations, nationalities and places about their dreams of the future: Student Simran Skulberg de Souza (NO) in Bergen, college student Paulina Shtanko (BY) in Sct. Petersburg, visual artist Mohau Modisakeng (ZA) in Johannesburg, composer Marcos Balter (BR) in New York and writer Suzanne Brøgger (DK) in Copenhagen.
The music is composed for accordion soloist Bjarke Mogensen and an ensemble of 14 musicians.
you’re somehow connected opened Aarhus Festuge 2021, as a live concert in Store Sal, Musikhuset, Aarhus. The piece has been recorded in a special circular arrangement in collaboration with the internationally acknowledged sound producer Preben Iwan.
INFO
Only 5 seats per concert
Duration: 75 min – thi scan vary
NB: There is no acces to this with a wheelchair
FREE ACCES WITH A PASSAGE FESTIVAL-WRISTBAND
If you have a festival-wristband you can expereince you’re somehow connected for free. Write us at pr@helsingor-teater.dk for more info on how to get a ticket. Tickets are offered on a first come, first served basis due to the limited number of audience seats.
In 2022 you’re somehow connected is further developed into an audiovisual multichannel piece for 34 speakers and an audience of five, at Kulturværftet, Elsinore, and can be experienced from July 28 through August 28.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Lil Lacy is a Danish/American composer and musician, who graduated in 2020 with an Advanced Postgraduate Degree in Music in Classical Composition from The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus. She has explored music within a wide range of genres and expressions, released several awarded albums, created music to an array of concerts, performances, film, dance and theatre-performances. Lacy is deeply fascinated with interdisciplinary collaborations and is a recipient of the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize 2020. www.lillacy.dk
Jon R. Skulberg is a Norwegian stage director and scenographer living in Copenhagen.
He is the artistic director of the performing arts company Convoi Exceptionnel. Skulberg creates evocative images with bodies, sound, and light as components. Immersive landscapes inducing impressions and demanding impact. To produce you’re somwhow connected he is collaborating with scenographer Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh. www.convoiexceptionnel.space
Tobias Sejersdahl works primarily with synthetic sound and multichannel composition. He has a soloist degree in electronic composition from The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus. He has a.o. released music and worked with electronic composition for classical ensembles and electroacoustic composition for a wide range of both usual and unusual multichannel setups.
you’re somehow connected is produced in collaboration between Lil Lacy Music, Convoi Exceptionnel and Kulturværftet. The realization of the multichannel piece is happening in collaboration with Lydfabrikken ApS.
Supported by: Det Obelske Familiefond, Statens Kunstfond, Kodas kulturelle midler, Augustinus Fonden, Dansk Komponistforening, Dansk Musiker Forbund, Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere, William Demant Fonden, Aarhus Kommune and Louis-Hansen Fonden.