Can approx. 4.5 billion years of Earth's deep history be transformed into acoustic music? Composer Signe Lykke has created a new piece for string quartet. Drawing on Earth System Science, the work translates the planet’s intertwined biological, chemical, and geological processes into music as part of her three year residency with Bloom festival in Copenhagen.
The residency brings contemporary classical music into dialogue with natural science, exploring the phenomenon of memory through three scientific perspectives: hologenomics, geoscience, and astrophysics.
Over the course of the residency, Lykke is creating three new works that explore scale across duration, instrumentation, and scientific framework.
The residency fosters a close knit co-creative process working with scientists from different fields. In conversation with these specialists the pieces slowly grow informed by data, specific evolutionary parameters, archival findings, the behavior of microorganisms, graphics ect.
Lensed through music this is an interdisciplinary research driven project with a boundary pushing and genre bending agenda. It fosters hybrid forms of research and co-creation that challenge the boundaries of accustomed knowledge, both in science and art.
She will present the work "Unearthed" and offer insights into the compositional process, collaborative framework, and the various modes of musical translation involved.
About Signe Moslund Lykke
Signe Lykke is a multiple award-winning Danish composer, with a masters degree from Trinity Conservatoire of Music in London and College of Fine Arts in Austin, Texas as well as an advanced graduate diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in Århus.
Signe Lykke has composed music for a broad array of ensembles and soloists, including large-scale interdisciplinary works such as the opera Nordkraft, the dance piece Leaning Tree, the interactive light installation Living Room by Random International, and an opera trilogy by the artist collective Motherboard.
Upcoming projects include a new violin concerto for the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, a new work for soprano Barbara Hannigan, a site-specific orchestral work for the Rued Langgaard Festival and a song cycle for aging voices and baroque orchestra.
This event is hosted and organized by DIAS Chair Don Canfield
- Organizer: Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS)
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