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Release Date: 2015-07-03

Label: clang

Two pieces composed for the 12 channel speaker system at The Black Diamond, The Royal Library, Copenhagen. The pieces were commissioned by The Danish Composers' Society to coincide with the celebration of their 100th anniversary. These versions are stereo mixes of the 12 channel versions.
VANDSPEJL - As a visitor to The Black Diamond you are close to the water, as if onboard a ship. Light is refracted and deflected by the huge window pane that faces the harbour and illuminates the entire space as waves of broken crystals. This watery voyage with its association to ship travel is a reflection on our passage through time, culture and history. The Diamond becomes an Ark of our common ancestry. Obviously an utopia in face of the impossibility to encapsulate the past, just as much as the future. Vandspejl is a slowly evolving work that lends itself to exploration. Each of the twelve speaker-voices being rather static, the changing perspective exposes new harmonies and combinations, as the listener shifts position and embraces the experience.
SURSTOF (RESPIRATION IV) - Breath, both as a function and as a symbol. A basic requirement for the body’s preservation. Without breath, no life. The whisper of and inhalation and exhalation is even more intimate and tender than the singing voice. In spite of the absence of word or vocal sound, it is still possible to easily recognise a person's individual characteristics, just by the sound of their breath. As an intangible fingerprint. Breath takes on a new meaning when it is enlarged to the size of The Black Diamond’s atrium and displayed in 12 loudspeakers distributed on three storeys. As if you are immersed in a huge lung. Inhalation. Elation. Cyclical waves embodied in warm air.