About documentation.
It proved very difficult to make a truthful documentation of the project, since the hall was big, there was large projections of the visual art, there were musicians and audiences spread out in the room, and that it had to be quite dark for the video to be seen.
There were different experiences for each audiencemember and each musician because we were all spread out and moving.
There was a high degree of improvisation and the performance would look different every night, like the sky is never the same.
The poem sung by the singers in the 5 voice Choral,
written by Hilmar Thordarson and Halldis Rønning
In Icelandic (original language)
Þögul tréin blakta í golunni
Tifandi hjarta
Hrjúfir og mjúkir steinar í fjörunni
Gljáfagurt svartlitað yfirborð
Glitrar sem frostrós í óravídd heimsins
English translation:
Silent trees flutter in the soft wind
A trembling heart
Rough and soft stones on the shore
shining black surfaces
glimmer like a frozen rose in the vastness of the world
The clips you see in the video are from the scenes:
- Underworld
- shallow waters
- Choral
- Ice
The art video was filmed on the site of a volcanic eruption near Reykjavik,
moss-flowers and inside an Ice cave in the Icelandic country-side.
The art Videos were projected on sharktooth material on two opposite walls in Nordurljos, Harpa Concert hall.