Title: Över Mitt Ögas Dag
Format: 2x Cassette
Label: Irrlicht
Cat nr: IRRLICHT MMXXV
Genre: modern classical/Drone/PoetryTracklist:
| A1 | Ohio | |
| A2 | Rapunzel | |
| B1 | Hero Complex | |
| B2 | There For You | |
| C1 | 2me | |
| C2 | Everything I Wanted | |
| D1 | Take My Hand | |
| D2 | Beautiful, Awkward Love |
MAL 027; “Över mitt ögas dag” by composer Lisa Stenberg and poet David Zimmerman is a collaborative text and sound work in which both past and future are constantly gravitating towards the present – a “now” as raging as it is inept.
The glacial electronics of Lisa Stenberg slowly grinds through both David Zimmerman’s lyrical segments and the adapted fragments of Vilhelm Ekelund’s ancient grave epigrams, all the while lamenting;
Nej / inga klockor märker ut / döda längre
För allt är onödigt, en avsägelse
In addition to the collaborative title track, the album features five of Stenberg’s instrumental compositions. All sharing the poem by Zimmerman as a point of departure and centered around the Halldorophone – an electroacoustic string and feedback instrument created by Halldór Úlfarsson.
Text and recital by David Zimmerman. Music composed, recorded and mixed by Lisa Stenberg at Visby International Centre for Composers and Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, 2023. Mastering by Daniel M Karlsson. All rights owned by the individual artists.”Över mitt ögas dag” is the second installment in our ongoing series of commissioned, collaborative works of text and sound.
