An excerpt from our program, Naturligtvis! - musik och poesi i takt med naturen, which combines nature-themed quartets of Mozart and Haydn with a specially commissioned set of haiku poems by Malmö-based poet Birk Andersson, with an opportunity for the audience to write their own haikus.

Haiku by Birk Andersson
Film by Megan Adie
Filmed at Katrinetorp Landeri

The main source of the video is hand-painted watercolor textures.
These are overlaid with varying degrees of transparency. They slowly move from their position creating a mesmerizing effect. The colors and textures also gradually change to match the static character of The Art of Fugue's opening piece. This counterpoint, devoid of substantial modulations or dramatic climax, seems to look back in time to the Flemish school and Ockeghem in particular, an era in which polyphonic music achieved the richness of Gothic stained glass windows.
The animation seeks to create a sensation of light and transparency for intimate listening.

(Fabio Monni, Video animation)

The Art of Fugue is the starting point for our program, For Four, which reaches both back and forward in time, exploring the rich and complex sound-world of Bach's predecessors and drawing on these influences for a newly-commissioned piece (TBA) inspired by the Art of Fugue theme. 

A little taste of our program, Full Fathom Five: Music Inspired by Shakespeare. 
Music from Locke's The Tempest and Purcell's Fairy Queen is woven together with songs and passages from Shakespeare’s plays The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as we explore how Shakespeare uses music to create magic in his plays. 

Live recording at Andy's Corner Bookstore