Gardens (2022)
for soprano, harp, percussion and electronics.
Written for PERMA trio (NO). Funded by TONO.
DURATA: 19′
ABOUT THE PIECE: Gardens is about symbiosis – a central element of permaculture. I have tried to make the ensemble operate as one organism – an ecosystem, a quiet garden, an idyllic place where elements merge, are thrown between sound sources and spill over into each other. Growing out of the sound the harp – and by extension the sound of strings – the work develops out of bits and pieces from John Cage’s “In a Landscape” (for harp) which are stretched, cut up, fragmented, and repeated again and again. All the musicians, in addition to their respective instruments also play auxillary instruments (percussion instruments, guitars, vocals), and the sound projected from the speakers is again recordings of the same material that the musicians dwells around.
The piece was written for the debut concert of PERMA trio (Elisabeth Holmertz, Sunniva Rødland and Sigrun Gomnæs), an ensemble focusing on permaculture. You can read more about permaculture here.