Himlen Var was created with the support of EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) during three residency periods from 2013-2015. 

Himlen Var is based upon field-recordings made in the city of Stockholm and the outer Stockholm archipelago (particularly Blidö and Sandhamm), and the analogue synthesizers housed at Ems.

Thanks to:

The staff of Stockholm Public Library and Storkyrkan in Gamla Stan, for out of hours recording access;
Ems, for their support and kindness;
Audiorama, for premiering the work on 28th March 2015.

This is a stereo version of the work, which was written for a 12 channel system. 

Himlen Var (2015)

Commissioned by the Transit Festival (Leuven) and designed to be performed by B’Rock - one of the world’s leading early music ensembles - Corelli_HACK investigates the collision of DJ technology and Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No. 4. We know increasingly that Corelli’s music spread from Italy not just in the official form of printed scores, but in transcriptions of dubious standards and in a number of sometimes poorly made manuscripts. We could speculate to say that these non-official versions of the music spread and mutated with characteristics more akin to language than text. This form of hybrid dissemination is not so different to our current ‘post downloading’ musical world, where the ‘official’, ‘finished’, ‘truthful’ product may often be a fabrication. Indeed, the heavy studio editing prevalent in the commercial release of classical music might represent a form of ‘post truth’, and this dialectic between the authentic and the forgery has not only a long history of debate in the fine arts, but applies equally to the dialogue between the live and the recorded in electronic music.

B'ROCK - Matt Wright - Corelli Hack (Transit 2016)

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