About the work:

This work is expanding the listening situation of the traditional chamber music context using amplification of the instruments as well as headphones as a listening tool for the concert audience.

I am interested in how technology can give new listening perspectives in a concert situation and how use of headphones and close amplification of the instruments can give an intimate and direct listening experience that can lead the audience closer to the music and the musicians on stage.  

Our headphone use in everyday life gives rise to an interesting listening experience: a “private” listening sphere through the headphones, and an external context of everyday sounds bleeding into the music. This work explores this type of listening situation: an acoustical layer of sound mixed with an amplified layer of quiet sounds picked up by the microphones and re-routed into headphones of the audience; the transitions and the interplay between the private and external listening sphere. 

Last, but not least: new types of listening situations can not only open up reflections on what we are listening to, but also how we listen, and how technology changes the way we listen and with that also our relationship to sound and music.