During this summer I have been writing a piece for tenor recorder and live electronics to be performed by Clara Guldberg Ravn at the Open Days festival in Aalborg.
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The piece delves into my experience of the Corona pandemic and explores the concept of distance from different perspectives. The distance between us now and the distance of time. A technological distans in the shape of an Arduino ultrasonic sensor inputs the distance between Clara’s flute and her body which controls a filter. The distance lost of a concert with Konversationer that had to be cancelled due to the restrictions between Denmark and Sweden. The piece uses samples from Konversationer which Clara premier last year and reminisces a concert lost in time.
The piece will be premier September 13 at the Open Days festival in Aalborg and performed again 14 September at Brabrand Kulturuge close to Aarhus.