ARCTIC CREATURES: REPPARFJORD (2019)

Nominated for the Edvard Prize 2020 in the category This year’s challenger.

Tine Surel Lange is concerned with the climate crisis and her current works are saturated with the fear of environmental destruction as well as the new opportunities and life forms that might evolve from that. “Arctic Creatures: Repparfjord” is the first installment of an ongoing project exploring potential new life forms on this planet; an audiovisual extravaganza with magic realist flourishes.

Evolution is taking place. As we change and possibly destroy the fundamental of our life on this planet a new species is taking form – welcoming these changes as their fundamental for life. What we describe as environmental disasters are potential feeding grounds for the new species.

The work was created for a collaborative project between nyMusikks Komponistgruppe and MolOt commissioning works by young composers from Norway and Russia to write for MolOt ensemble with concerts in Oslo and St. Petersburg.

Presented:

2025 September 18 – by ensemble chromoson, Klangspuren Schwaz – Schwaz, Austria
2025 September 16 – by ensemble chromoson, Transart Festival – Bolzano, Italy
2024 February 17 – by BIT20, Troldsalen – Troldhaugen, KODE – Bergen, Norway
2024 January 11 – by Flow Unit, Norwegian New Music Days – Krakow, Poland
2022 September 26–28 – exhibition, CCRMA WAVE – Stanford University, USA
2020 July 1–19 – group exhibition “Friends” – Stamsund, Norway
2019 November 6 – by NMKEnsemble, Sentralen – Oslo, Norway
2019 April 7 – by MolOt Ensemble, TBA – St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 March 29 – by MolOt Ensemble, Nynorskens hus – Oslo, Norway

Credits:

Commissioned by: nyMusikks Komponistgruppe
Funded by: Arts Council Norway
Art Production: Soundhunting AS
Premiere: 2019 March 29 – Nynorskens hus – Oslo, Norway

For pierrot ensemble, video and stereo sound
12:30 min

Created for and performed by: MolOt
 Flute: Alexey Isaev
    Clarinet: Alexander Zakharenko
    Piano: Alexey Glazkov
    Violin: Artur Zobnin
    Cello: Philip Gulidov

Concept: Tine Surel Lange
Composition: Tine Surel Lange
Choreography, video: Tine Surel Lange
Outside eye: Mette Myhr
Filmed at: Repparfjord, Norway
Photo: Mette Myhr

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