What does a place where you cannot be sound like? When saxophonist, composer, and scenographer Elsa van der Linden was invited to play at SPACE21, an experimental music festival in Kurdistan this spring, that ultimately could not take place due to the war, she began collecting audible material remotely. What does the place where you feel at home sound like? What is a place that is dear to you but unreachable? With the collected layers, she created an audio score. A sounding score as an entrance to a place that exists only in the imagination.
Listening is always the starting point in Van der Linden’s work, in which she views the space as a fellow player. The acoustics, materials, and unexpected moments are musical elements. She guides the spectator’s ears to the musicality of the here and now. In The Pit, she performs her audio score live, together with Hardi Kurda, composer, performer, and organiser of SPACE21. Join her in a place that exists only if you listen.
