you’re somehow connected

ABOUT THE PIECE:
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.

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

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 Sct. 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…
- what are your dreams for the future?
- how can one act or navigate individually as well as in collaboration to strive towards these dreams?
- and what is it that connects us across nationalities, cultures, generations and time, through the past, present and into the future?

The acoustic music, composed for accordion soloist Bjarke Mogensen 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, breath and blood flowing in the veins, as well as electronic music and interviewed voices.

you’re somehow connected  was created as an audiovisual multichannel piece, staged in an abandoned shipyard in Kulturværftet, Helsingør, Denmark, with a scenography of choreographed smoke, affected by the weather.
you’re somehow connected was premiered as a Dolby Atmos cinema production, at Nordic Music Days in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2024.

ARTISTIC TEAM:
Concept and acoustic composition: Lil Lacy
Electronic composition: Tobias Sejersdahl
Co-creator and scenographer: Jon R. Skulberg
Scenographer: Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh

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

Acoustic composition mentor: Bent Sørensen
Acoustic composition supervisor: Martin Lohse

Filmed by Adam Jandrup
Edited and colorgraded by Kristopher Paterson
Recording and Dolby Atmos production by Preben Iwan
Instruction on location by Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh and Lil Lacy

The production of the recording (2020) is made in collaboration with AUT, Århus Sinfonietta and Lil Lacy Music
The audiovisual multichannel production (2022) is pesented by PASSAGE festival, CLICK festival and Kulturværftet in Helsingør and realized in collaboration with Lydfabrikken ApS
The Dolby Atmos Cinema Production (2024) is made in collaboration with and presented by Nordic Music Days

SECRET LINK TO THE FILM (stereo mix):

WORLD PREMIERE:
Nordic Music Days, October 31, 2024, at the CCA Center, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

CAST & CREW:
1 composer and 1 sound technician are involved in the set-up of the film and sound, besides the inhouse crew.

SPACE:
A cinema with Dolby Atmos set up or a space with a large screen and Dolby Atmos set up
The piece is intended to be experienced from beginning to end, as a complete film.

DURATION: 76:00 min.

CO-PRODUCTION:
Produced by Convoi Exceptionnel and Lil Lacy Music
Co-produced by Kulturværftet and CLICK festival

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

TECHNICAL DETAILS:

• Video

  The video content is formatted in standard 4K at a 16:9 aspect ratio, ensuring compatibility with most standard setups.
  Suitable for a cinema performance as well.

• Audio

  2 delivery formats are available for you’re somehow connected

1. DCP for Cinemas:
   Video format ; 4K - 16:9
   Audio format ; DCP containing Dolby Digital Atmos Audio 7.1.4  (WAV files/MXF wrapper at 24-bit 96kHz)

2. QuickTime movie : (for consumer and professional installation playback)
   H.264 video with Dolby Atmos Audio 7.1.4 - ( 24-bit 96kHz) - (at least Dolby Atmos Audio 5.1 format should be available for playback)

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