EN SKOG AV LYD (acoustic version)

Large ensemble + video
Written for Damkapellet + Lydbrøndene
Commissioned by KLANG festival and Lydbrøndene
Funded by Arts and Culture Norway
30 min
2024/25

Video still from the score:
“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.”

“En skog av lyd” can be performed as as whole, or as three smaller stand-alone pieces.
It was created for five string players and “Lydbrøndene” in Copenhagen, an outdoor space with 32 sound speakers in the ground.
The piece was created as a 5th order ambisonics piece and can be presented as such, with or without live musicians.
The piece also works for five musicians and five speakers.
In 2025 the piece is rewritten for fully acoustic version for Damkapellet accompanied by a video score (7 strings + 5 open instrumentation parts). Currently “En skog av lyd - del 1” (part 1) is finished. Part 2 and 3 will follow.

Extended info for potential performing or programming of the piece here!

Concept, composition, and video score: Tine Surel Lange
Technical assistance on filming and editing: Michal Sýkora

Original version created for and performed by: Damkapellet and Lydbrøndene
Commissioned by: KLANG festival and Lydbrøndene
Project funded by: Arts and Culture Norway
Original version premiered Jun 11th 2024, KLANG festival, Copenhagen







© 2025 Tine Surel Lange