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- Josefine Opsahl
A Mass of Stars Block the View (2024)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Written for the Berlin Academy of American Music
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- 2(pic).1(ca).2(bc).asx.1/2.2.2.0/timp.perc/str. (4-4-3-2-2)
- 12 min
- 4th June 2024, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
Programme Note
An atmospheric, interstellar symphonic journey that conceptually and musically investigates the anticipation of everything being much greater than what is at hand or graspable; the beauty of that “you can’t see the forest for the trees”.
The sensory bombardement of our current time makes it increasingly hard to both individually and collectively see clearly and exist in balance with mind, body, culture and nature.
Rampling news flows, noisy social platforms, virtuously tamed discourse, hidden agendas and demands blurs greater values, longer term focus and collectivity.
Musically, a grand, cosmic and adventurous investigation of rapidity and fluidity held up against slow solidity. The sound worlds will at the same time be covered with bright and sparkling sounds and rhythmically driven layers of interconnected and independent effects as well as stretched in time as if floating in the soundless and ever expanding universe.
- Josefine Opsahl