Jeppe Ernst’s piece Solo (Cantus II) is part of the cycle Cantus, which consists of eleven pieces divided into three volumes. All the pieces are written for touch and facial muscles, and they explore human communication, where touch and facial muscles – in a kind of call and response – represent the acting (inquiring) and reacting (responding) elements, respectively. Solo (Cantus II) is, as the title suggests, the second piece in the collection, and can be said to take its starting point in the idea of the face as a mirror.
Omen, written for two bass drums by Sandra Boss, draws inspiration from the ancient understanding of interpreting specific sounds and gestures as warnings to foretell the future. In ancient Greece, an omen could be observed in a bird's cry or in a thunder or ligtning, which was perceived as a message sent from Zeus.
Besides from the two world premiere pieces, the concert presents the Danish premiere of STOP by Nina Dragičević, alongside repertoire works by Gérard Grisey and Pierluigi Billone. The concert programme forms a journey through time, space, and sound—where the ancient and the modern converge, where silence and sound, body and object, gesture and rhythm speak in ways both subtle and powerful.
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