Music from Caves / A kind of rebirth
- to
victims and survivors
Brass band
Commissioned
by C-Y contemporary/Swedish Arts Council 2010
Stefan
Klaverdal 2011
Duration:
approx 12-15 min
Recording
Music from
Caves / A kind of rebirth is a piece composed in five parts loosely connected
to the human relationship to caves and mines.
The five
parts are:
Echoes
– Songs – Dances – Cavities – Dreams
Music from
Caves / A kind of rebirth is inspired from the long relation humans have to
cavities in the ground, both natural caves and
man-made
mines. There is a flora of myths and stories all taking place in caves, such as
PlatoÕs cave that is an allegory of our world, the
Mayas (and
many others) connection between the afterlife and underground, our Nordic ideas
about goblins and other small folk living
beneath the
earth.
The piece
is to begin with somewhat more concrete, and the subtitles relate to both
things to be found in caves/mines and activities
one can be
inspired to do there.
During my
research on our relationship to and our activities in caves/mines I started to
think about mining accidents. I was again hit by
the force
of the stories coming from ÒLos 33Ó, the survivors of the mining accident in
Copiap—, Chile 2010. 33 miners were trapped for
69 days 5 kilometres under ground. After the miraculous rescue, the Chilean president Sebasti‡n Pi–era held a speech, saying:
"God never gives us a job we cannot do. Tonight we have experienced something we will never forget—full of emotion. We have experienced a kind of rebirth."
Looking at
the event as a metaphor, I think we all can relate to it. Most people have been
through tough times and come out at the
other end.
Perhaps this is what makes the story fantastic. Thus the piece can be listened
to either as five images of things to be found or done
in caves,
or as a homage to victims and survivors of difficult times. Or both.
Music from
Caves / A kind of rebirth was premiered by ¯resund Brassband/Jonas Nydesjš in
Malmš may 15th 2011