PREMIERE: Hans Berg - The Clearing Pt.2 [2MR]
Like a musical evolution, The Clearing Pt.2 grows, and writhes in front of you. The natural timbre of wood blocks coalesces nicely with the undulating water like synth, the wisp like melody sweeping through the trees surrounding. It’s an auditory awakening of the mind, and nature alike. Proving again and again that one can not live without the other in complete symbiosis.
2MR writes this, about the release: The Clearing, originally debuted in 2015 as part of the exhibition Flickers of Day and Night at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, consisted of larger-than-life spinning daisy sculptures surrounded by Djurberg’s signature claymation animations. Berg’s sound installation transforms from an ominous yet alluring pan flute composition into an otherworldly synth melody, underscored by a sticky echo tone and the occasional bird call. The effect is an almost unsettling invitation into the artists’ seemingly innocent forest, only to be plunged into the transgressive animations as the music transforms.
The Clearing, and the rest of Hans Berg’ wonderfully nuanced Waypoints release will be out on the 16th of September.