SPOR Festival

AARhus, DENMaRK

April 24, 7:30 PM

Yarn/Wire’s second night at the SPOR festival features two works by Scandinavian composers, including a world premiere commission by SPOR.

Orchestra of Black Butterflies is Lisa Streich’s reflection on the love of the orchestra and its potential transitoriness. It deploys a formation of four musicians who try to portray the orchestral apparatus. The work reflects Streich’s interest in the imperfection of familiar beauty and the amplification of expressions through spectral changes in intonation.

The Letting Go is a quiet, almost ritualistic piece written by Mads Emil Dreyer for Yarn/Wire. It consists of five short movements and the total duration is around 15 minutes. The performers play small lyre harps with and without e-bows, a music box, and a selection of table percussion instruments. The piece is inspired by finding new instruments and setting up dialogues between them. The sonic opportunities that come out of this process and the feedback mechanism between abstract ideas of sound – and the curiosity of actual music-making – are what drive the inspiration.

Program

Orchestra of Black Butterflies (2024) - Lisa Streich

The Letting Go (2026)* - Mads Emil Dreyer

*world premiere; commissioned by SPOR Festival

Yarn/Wire’s 2025-26 season is made possible in part by the friendly support of the Ernst Von Siemens Foundation