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Concert for a Space and Time

24/11 | 15:00 | The Scandinavian Center

Concert for a Space and Time
Site-specific Performance Concert for Choir and Strings

Concert for a Space and Time is a 60 min. site-specific alternative Christmas concert written for choir and 5 string players,
exploring the space and atmosphere of a shopping and congress center.

First, the piece focuses on the material functions and concrete aspects of the place; the stairs, the escalators, the floor....

Then it moves into the material; wood, steel, glass...

Then deeper into the consistency of the material warm, cold, hard, soft, and beyond to the time before the material;
the time before the glass became glass; into the smaller components such as silica, limestone, and quartz sand... and on to the sound of the waves rolling over the sand...

The voices move throughout the center at the beginning of the piece, and the sound of the strings will at one point come from many different directions.

At another point the sound of the voices makes the air in the center's passage vibrate with beatings, the resonance lifts the awareness from the material
around us to the material inside us and levitates the experience into connectedness across time, life, and death. The ending of the piece connects to the sunset,
the change of colors in the sky, and the ending of yet another day.

The piece is a tribute to the opening of one’s awareness of the surroundings and people with whom we share the same air, space, and time.
Concert for a Space and Time invites a new appreciation of the moment right now, right here.

Composition and idea: Lil Lacy
Libretto: Sonja Ferdinand and Lil Lacy

Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen and ENSEMBLE EDGE Ensemble: Århus Sinfonietta Conductor: Mathias Skaarup Sørensen