you’re somehow connected

The Film and Dolby Atmos production (2024)

Photos by Adam Jandrup

The film you’re somehow connected creates a transportable Dolby Atmos cinema production, of the audiovisual multichannel performance created at Kulturværftet, Elsinore in 2022. The film is a real-time one-take of the performance. One experiences the movements and gradual changes of the sunlight, clouds and smoke, while embraced by the journey of the sound and music - like dream and reality intertwining.

The piece is designed to be performed in traditional Dolby Atmos cinemas.

World premiere of the film and Dolby Atmos production:
Oct. 31 and Nov. 2, 2024, during Nordic Music Days in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2024
Location: the CCA Cinema, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Duration: 76:00 min. 

Artistic team of the film and Dolby Atmos production:
Composer and artistic leader: Lil Lacy
Electronic composer: Tobias Sejersdahl
Scenographers: Jon R. Skulberg and Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh
Dolby Atmos mix and master: Preben Iwan
Filmed by Adam Jandrup
Edited and colorgraded by Kristopher Paterson
Produced by Lil Lacy Music and Convoi Exceptionnel, in collaboration with Nordic Music Days

Music performed by
Accordion soloist: Bjarke Mogensen
Ensemble: Århus Sinfonietta with special guest musicians:
Anna Jalving (viola), Frederik Sakham (contrabass), Christian Martínez (percussion), Mari Kawamura (piano)
Conductor: Rei Munakata

Sound producer and head of recording in relation to recording, edit and mix of the acoustic music: Preben Iwan

Mix and edit of electronic music: Tobias Sejersdahl
Field recordings: Lil Lacy and Ida Skjerk
The recording of body fluids and sounds: Kristian Eidnes Andersen

The process of filming the audiovisual multichannel performance you’re somehow connected, photos by Adam Jandrup

 

About THE PIECE

Since 2018, composer Lil Lacy has developed the piece you're somehow connected in collaboration with scenographer Jon R. Skulberg and electronic composer Tobias Sejersdahl.

you're somehow connected reflects our time, culture, dreams about the future and reality based upon what came before us, where we are now and what will come in the future. It reflects on how we are all somehow connected.

Inspired by August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, where Agnes, the Vedic God daughter, sinks towards the Earth in the attempt to understand humans, their agony and dreams, you’re somehow connected explores the matter of being through sound, light and air.

In the piece, new classical music and electronic composition, manipulated field recordings of the body, skin and breathing is incorporated
– as well as interviews with five people of different generations, nationalities and places about their dreams of the future:
Student Simran Skulberg de Souza (NO) in Bergen, college student Paulina Shtanko (BY) in Saint Petersburg, visual artist Mohau Modisakeng (ZA) in Johannesburg, composer Marcos Balter (BR) in New York and writer Suzanne Brøgger (DK) in Copenhagen.

The piece reflects and freezes a momentary situation, a dream vision for the future, described in 2020. When the piece is performed in 2022 (and thereafter), one will experience a piece from the past, that talks about the future, a future we will know while experiencing the piece and by virtue of the time that has passed, and the thereby changed perspective, will invite reflection on what happened meanwhile;
how have we as human beings acted and navigated collectively, as well as individually?

you’re somehow connected does not aim to give answers, but to describe a wide specter of dreams for the future, from a near past, through space, sound and light…

The acoustic music, composed for accordion soloist and an ensemble of 14 musicians, is woven closely together with the electronic manipulated field recordings of granite stones grinding, everyday life, the touch of skin, blood flowing in the veins and breathing, as well as electronic music and interviewed voices.

The complete duration is 76 min.

Photo Kåre Viemose

Photo of the audiovisual multichannel performance in Hal 19, at Kulturværftet 2022, by Rune Svenningsen

 

THE EXPLORATION OF different formats

you’re somehow connected has till now been developed into three different formats.
There is an ongoing exploration of the piece and spatial experience of the music, sounds and words,
the dream and vision, the real and the surreal.

The existing formats of you’re somehow connected are:

For more info about the dream and vision of you’re somehow connected , please follow link:

 

The PODCAST

 
 

Sound producer Ida Skjerk has followed the development of the piece you’re somehow connected from the first spark of the idea in 2018, through the process of composing, prerecording, rehearsing, premiere, final recording and now also into the creation of the multichannel piece, as well as the artistic dialogues, exploration and considerations there has been throughout.
How does one create a new classical piece? Where does the inspiration come from?
How can one express an idea or a story through sound and daylight?
This podcast series invites the listener into the workshop of the composer, where the fundamental ideas, considerations, inspiration and processes are shared.
The series follows the composer and initiator Lil Lacy, the electronic composer Tobias Sejersdahl, the scenographer Jon R. Skulberg and the sound producer Preben Iwan in the creation of the piece you’re somehow connected - an interdisciplinary piece that combines newly composed acoustic music, electronic music and manipulated field recordings with words, lights and bodies.
The podcast is in Danish and is available via The Lake Radio on a.o. SoundCloud.

 

 
 
 

Complete list of Artistic team,
CREATORS & COLLABORATORS

Concept and acoustic composition: Lil Lacy
Electronic composition: Tobias Sejersdahl
Co-creator and scenographer: Jon R. Skulberg
Scenographer: Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh
Sound producer and head of recording in relation to recording, edit and mix of the acoustic music: Preben Iwan
Acoustic composition mentor: Bent Sørensen
Acoustic composition supervisor: Martin Lohse

Recording (2020):
Accordion soloist: Bjarke Mogensen
Ensemble: Århus Sinfonietta
with special guest musicians:
Anna Jalving, viola
Frederik Sakham, contrabass
Christian Martínez, percussion
Mari Kawamura, piano
Conductor: Rei Munakata
Head of recording: Preben Iwan
The production of the recording (2020) is made in collaboration with AUT (Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere), Århus Sinfonietta and Lil Lacy Music

The audiovisual multichannel production (2022):
Mix and edit of electronic music: Tobias Sejersdahl
Field recordings: Lil Lacy and Ida Skjerk
The recording of body fluids and sounds: Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Scenographers: Jon R. Skulberg and Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh
Sound system for installation realized in collaboration with Lydfabrikken ApS
Production manager for installation: Kristine Bech Sørensen
Installation presented in collaboration with PASSAGE festival, CLICK festival and Kulturværftet in Elsinore 2022
Produced in collaboration between Convoi Exceptionnel, Kulturværftet and Lil Lacy Music

The film and Dolby Atmos production (2024):
Filmed by Adam Jandrup
Edited and colorgraded by Kristopher Paterson
Produced by Lil Lacy Music and Convoi Exceptionnel, in collaboration with Nordic Music Days

Creator of podcast: Ida Skjerk

Visual design of programs: Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh

 

SUPPORTED BY

Det Obelske Familiefond
STATENS KUNSTFOND
Kodas Kulturelle midler
Augustinus Fonden
Dansk Komponistforening
Dansk Musiker Forbund
Louis-Hansen Fonden
William Demant Fonden
The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus
Dronning Margrethes & Prins Henriks Fond
Aarhus Kommunes Musikpulje
Dansk Kapelmesterforening
Art Music Denmark
- sincerely thank you.

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