Over Seas
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celebrating water with video art and music
- Eivind Aadland
- Conductor & Curator
- Elina Brotherus
- Visual artist
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‘We have tried to create a conversation between the images and the music, rather than the music being a background to the film. It’s beautiful and funny, and it has some sentimental elements, in the most positive way’
Over Seas brings together live orchestral music and video art in a compelling celebration of water in all its forms and powers.
Eivind Aadland curates and conducts music spanning musical history, from John Dowland (1604) to Holly Harrison (2022). His water-themed programme interacts with video art created by celebrated artist Elina Brotherus, who draws inspiration from the Baltic Sea, a lighthouse island in Southern Norway, Finnish lakes and the river Ganges. The videos are shown on large screens above the orchestra, offering the audience a powerful multi-dimensional experience.
This is the first time Aadland and Brotherus have worked together, but Aadland is an avid art collector and Brotherus studied piano and harpshichord, and both are interested in collaborating across art forms.
Repertoire
John Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae (1604)
Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia for Orbiting Spheres (2013)
John Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae (1604)
Holly Harrison: Hi-Vis (2022)
John Dowland: Lachrimae Tristes (1604)
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten (1977)
The world premiere was given on 19 October 2023 at Kilden Concert Hall, as the first part of the Nordic Art Symphony Project, created by Kilden Concert Hall and the new Kunstsilo Museum, which opens in Spring 2024.
‘I’m so excited about this work. I love to collaborate with musicians and make use of the years I spent in front of the piano and the harpsichord in my youth’