Edition·S composer Sophie Søs Meyer has received high praise from Danish online music magazine Seismograf for her recent collaborative work Ghost Flower Ritual, a live installation created with visual artist Cecilia Fiona and performed by Athelas Sinfonietta at Copenhagen Contemporary.
The review describes the work as “a sensorially overwhelming, yet dramatically subdued ritual,” where “frozen human bodies and faces shaped and painted like ceramics are meticulously carried around by flower sculptures that have abandoned their static nature.” Through this imaginative reversal of roles, nature becomes the animated force, breathing life into its human counterparts.
Set beneath a giant flower, audiences are invited into a forty-five-minute immersive experience where, as Seismograf writes, “soundscapes and small pulsating figures from four string players and a flute shape a landscape of colors, tones, and movements that melt together – filling the high-ceilinged room with auditory and visual presence.”
The review further celebrates Meyer’s musical language, calling her “precise and intriguing in her swaying tonal figures that change slowly and meticulously,” and applauds the broader vision of the work: “Culture is nature. The human animals and the flowers are part of the greater consciousness. It’s all a hyper-complex mechanism.”