Interaktiv musikinstallation, Berwaldhallens foajé 24 februari till 7 maj 2017

Beställningsverk av Berwaldhallen

Interaktiv musikinstallation skapad av Carl Unander-Scharin, Åsa Unander-Scharin och Ludvig Elblaus

Interaktiv musikinstallation där publiken rör i vattnet för att spela fram röster och klanger! Orden ”Det regnar kvinnoröster” inleder Apollinaries dikt
Il pleut/ Det regnar. I denna interaktiva musikinstallation kan du själv låta en röst regna genom luften. Rytmen i vattenvirvlarna i karet återspeglas i de ljud som skapas och som blandas med rösten.

Commissioned by Berwaldhallen, Swedish Radio

Il Pleut/ It’s Raining Voices

“It’s raining women’s voices” are the opening words of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem Il Pleut/It’s Raining. In this interactive musical installation visitors themselves can let both men’s and women’s voices rain through the air.  

The container filled with water that is exhibited in the foyer of the Berwald Hall has been specially constructed and functions concretely as a doorway to a sound world where Apollinaire’s poem is recreated through the visitor’s interaction with the surface of the water. 

Raining voices and undulating sounds are heard if ripples disturb the surface of the water. The way the water is treated is reflected in the sounds that are created – gentle, harsh, dripping or sweeping: everything plays a part in the sound that is produced. 

When the surface of the water is touched a kind of synthesis of sounds arises, since the actual sound of the water blends with a collage made up of sound material recorded during the process of composing Calligrammes. Carl Unander-Scharin, Åsa Unander-Scharin and Ludvig Elblaus thus give us a glimpse of the creative process that precedes a première. 

In this interactive musical installation we can hear tonalities and text fragments from the compositional process. Together with the concrete sound of the water they create a kind of soundscape with which the visitor can interact.