This work for piano and harp­si­chord is a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Icelandic harp­si­chordist Guðrún Òskarsdóttir and visu­al artist Geert Vanoorlé. 

A uni­ver­sal abstract world, detached from time and place, was built. Some loca­tion con­cepts that occur in every soci­ety were a cen­tral start­ing point, designed both visu­al­ly and musi­cal­ly. Pieces got names like the Factory, the Wood, the Corridor, the Battle Field, the Water, the Bedroom,… 

Because of the com­mon affin­i­ty and expe­ri­ence with inside tech­niques of both musi­cians, it in the first place became an inves­ti­ga­tion and exchange of the dif­fer­ent play­ing techniques.

The goal is to tell some­thing that express­es the uni­ver­sal­ly human and empha­sizes shared feel­ings in a com­mu­ni­ty. With a focus on the com­mon and not on diver­si­ty. The ener­gy of human move­ment, spe­cif­ic to cer­tain actions and places is cen­tral to the music. The ele­ments to build that world are musi­cal sounds of spaces, folk­loric puz­zle pieces (a ran­dom col­lec­tion from all over the world), field record­ings and a visu­al map.

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Credits

• Commission
  Transit Festival
• Composition
  Heleen Van Haegenborgh
• Instrumentation
  Pf & Hpd
• Visual objects and light design
  Geert Vanoorlé
• Performers
  Gudrun Oskarsdottir and Heleen Van Haegenborgh
• Graphical design
  Jeroen Wille
• Technical support
  Johan Vandermaelen
• Length
  45’
• Support
  Flemish Community
• Première
  October 26, 2020 at STUK Leuven