The temporality of resonance and resistance of a place.
Being in a place requires time. Letting the place enter you.
We need a place for mourning. I feel that something is taken away from me all the time. Being young today (maybe old too) is seeing how our future is slowly, for most of us, or fast, for some of us, taken away from us. It is to witness a future that is gradually eroded, through ecological, social, and existential loss.
It is taken away in many different ways leading to death in different ways.
For this we need to mourn. We need to mourn the current state of our planet, our societies, our
world.
Earth to Earth is a continuation of my ongoing musical series on death. In this work, the perspective expands toward ecological grief, addressing eco-anxiety and solastalgia, the feeling of being homesick while still at home, closely tied to climate change and the loss of ecological stability.
The composition is grounded in field recordings from my immediate surroundings in Tromsø, Northern Norway. Every day over the course of one month, I made recordings in the same area, gathering sonic material from the snow to capture its subtle, day-to-day transformations. Snow is one of nature’s most sensitive barometers of a changing climate; its sonic character varies dramatically with temperature and condition, allowing these small shifts to become audible. In this piece, I want these subtle changes to be heard as traces; fragile, temporary, and slowly disappearing.
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This project is supported by Musikfonds and Norsk Komponistforening