Awarded TONO’s EDVARD Prize, contemporary
For five string players and large multichannel setup // HOA electroacoustic composition
“En skog av lyd”, a forest of sound, is inspired by the way in which individual, scattered trees slowly grow into a forest and how the symbiotic network between plant roots and the fungus mycorrhiza enables them to mutually communicate, exchange nutrients, and warn each other of dangers. In the piece, instrumental sounds intertwine as the trees do underground – connected through networks that have functioned for millions of years, but which, due to the ravages of human beings and their unbalanced relationship to nature, are becoming unstable. When the trees with the largest and widest network are cut down, the network is destroyed, and important communication is lost.
“When I was in Denmark for the first time as a child, having until then only seen small, contorted birch trees in Northern Norway, it was a wonder to me that the enormous beech trees could grow so infinitely high without toppling over. Today I still find them tremendously impressive.”
Reviews:
“The work takes its time and grows slowly; it is a world you want to inhabit. The music unfolds like a flora of strings, stretching in flux. The work has a distinctive ability to move within the sound of the strings and makes full use of this, creating a reflective and entirely unique sonic expression.”
“Tine Surel Lange succeeds in creating a reflective and entirely distinctive artistic expression.”
2025 Oct 15 – The jury’s reasoning TONO’s Edvard Price, contemporary 2025, Tono.no
Presented:
2025 October 31 – by Damkapellet, Huset – Aalborg, Denmark
2025 September 7 – by TERJUNGENSEMBLE, Hjertnes Kulturhus – Sandefjord, Norway
2025 June 2 – SV-Festival, Kirkeskibet 2450 – Copenhagen, Denmark
2025 March 8 – by Damkapellet, LydLIG vol. 3, Teater Momentum – Odense, Denmark
2024 August 31 – by Damkapellet and Lydbrøndene, WELLS festival – Copenhagen, Denmark
2024 June 11 – by Damkapellet and Lydbrøndene, KLANG festival – Copenhagen, Denmark
Extended info:
All materials for version with 5 string players + large multichannel setup (video scores, instructions, etc):
https://www.jottacloud.com/s/0233f2561ae0dca464f997040eb71847bd5
Credits:
Awarded TONO’s EDVARD Prize, contemporary
Commissioned by: KLANG festival and Lydbrøndene
Project funded by: Arts and Culture Norway
Premiere: 2024 June 11th – KLANG festival – Copenhagen, Denmark
For five string players and large multichannel setup // HOA electroacoustic composition
30 min
Created for and performed by: Damkapellet and Lydbrøndene
Violin: Julija Morgan
Viola: Pauline Hogstrand
Viola: Mika Persdotter
Viola: Josefine Weber Hansen
Cello: Nicole Hogstrand
Playback: Finn Markwardt
Concept, composition, ambisonics panning, video score, and costume design: Tine Surel Lange
Technical assistance, filming, editing, mixing and mastering: Michal Sýkora
Violin and cello recordings: Tine Surel Lange
Viola recordings: Josefine Weber Hansen and Pauline Hogstrand
Photo: Tine Surel Lange