The premiere of The Barrier Orchestra with the first performance of the experimental sound art performance RESILIENCE, GROUND LAYER MODULES in two parts.
Idea, composition and direction: Ann Rosén
Text: Helena Boberg
Thursday 29 October 2015, 7:30 pm at Fylkingen, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2, Stockholm.
The Barrier Orchestra includes some of Sweden’s foremost musicians and artists – selected for their skills and their desire to challenge, exploit and explore their own barriers: Anna Lindal violin, Eva Lindal violin, Elsbeth Berg viola, Sara Sjödahl piano and accordion, Jörgen Pettersson saxophone, Matias Karlsen Björnstad saxophone, Ola Paulson saxophone, Jakob Riis trombone, Girilal Baars voice/singing, Helena Boberg voice, Sten‐Olof Hellström synths and electronics and Ann Rosén.
For The Barrier Orchestra’s first performance Ann Rosén has composed RESILIENCE, GROUND LAYER MODULES in two acts with text by Helena Boberg. With strings and bows, winds and white noise, electronic instruments and textile resistance, in a meeting of artistic disciplines and traditions the concert is modulated into existence
In the work RESILIENCE and through the BARRIER ORCHESTRA, Ann's long artistic activity is summarized in modular pieces for the custom-built instruments KNEECUFF and INTEOCH, mixed orchestration and voices.
THE BARRIER ORCHESTRA and the piece RESILIENCE are part of Ann Rosén’s The Great Barrier Orchestra project, which aims to challenge our inner and outer barriers, the ones we carry inside ourselves and the ones we encounter in the world around us, deepen collaboration with the musicians, composing and developing new instruments, playing techniques, music and art.