AquaSonic is one of the most spectacular and groundbreaking performances at Operadagen Rotterdam. –Volkskrant (NL)
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Just as man is born out of water, thus is the music of AquaSonic. Here we experience the very conception of music. We literally witness how the music is born in the water and by the water, emerging from and struggling with the water. What AquaSonic creates is scientific research as well as investigative and experimental play with the wet element. What they have done is very original, both in thought and action. –Kirsten Dehlholm
Artistic Director and Founder, Hotel Pro Forma
AquaSonic is the most ambitious project to date from Danish musicians Laila Skovmand and Robert Karlsson, in collaboration with members of their ensemble Between Music. The work presents five performers who submerge themselves in glass water tanks to play custom-made instruments and sing entirely underwater. Transformed inside these darkly glittering, aquatic chambers, they produce compositions that are both eerily melodic and powerfully resonant. AquaSonic is the culmination of years of research into the exciting possibilities of submerged musical performance, breaking barriers and challenging existing paradigms. The artists conducted countless experiments in collaboration with deep-sea divers, instrument makers and scientists to develop entirely new, highly specialized subaqueous instruments. These include an underwater organ or hydraulophone, crystallophone, rotacorda, percussion and violin. The team also perfected a distinctive vocal technique for underwater singing. The result is a concert experience completely out of the ordinary; a deep dive into a magical new universe of images and sounds.
AquaSonic is co-produced by Aarhus 2017 – European Capital of Culture and supported by: The Danish Arts Foundation, City of Aarhus, DJBFA, DMF, SNYK.
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