Sounds develop slowly and engender the sensation of moving through outer space everything is in slow motion but we just might be travelling at several hundred miles an hour. Electric blue light pierces the darkness from ebows placed on the strings of what looks like an antique harp. This is the Punkt festival and its programme that year describes Stephan as ‘a composer and performer of electroacoustic music, currently presenting his work as installations involving obsolete and historical media such as mechanical gramophones, shortwave receivers, 16mm projectors and analogue computers, as well as Renaissance instruments.’ The equipment spread before Stephan that night bore witness to this description, as he deftly combined inputs from the main concert with the spoken word and his own aural creations. The musician creating a new piece from sound samples gathered live during the Plight & Premonition concert is Stephan Mathieu. What the audience witness now is a live remix of that material, overlaid with pre-recorded words drawn from Nils Christian Moe-Repstad’s poem ‘I Swallowed Earth for This’. The concert just completed in the theatre above was Sylvian’s one and only live performance of Plight & Premonition, his classic ambient collaboration with Holger Czukay. David Sylvian’s distinctive reading voice declares: In dim light the deep shimmering drone of the music begins. It’s 2011 and audience members at the Agder Theatre, Kristiansand, Norway rush from the main auditorium to a dark basement room where plain benches are set out to accommodate as many people as possible in this smaller space.
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