meditation i färger (meditation in colors)

work comments

Have long been associated with colors since I was a child with visual arts and weather phenomena as northern lights. One beautiful day, the opportunity came to write a work that was about designing colors in a church room. I wrote a draft to the fine musicians from Lund’s chamber soloists together with the organist Robert Bennesh, who is a cathedral organist in Lund’s cathedral. A seed was sown that then grew out like a tree or a church building in front of it and then a light designer, Johanna Svensson, was contacted. During the work, the year before a colleague Marcus Fjellström had passed away under tragic circumstances, hence his memory. Characteristic of his creation was that he made installations, music with video and dance performances at the Norrlands Opera and they were always in some way gloomy and melancholy in tone. One of his archetypes was just repetitive figures, ostinati, who fueled the music which contributed to the meditative mood of the work. The whole work is constructed as an arc in three parts that go into each other.