An excerpt from the world premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s METAXIS with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eva Ollikainen and Ross Jamie Collins, at the Reykjavik Arts Festival in June 2024 at Harpa Concert House.
METAXIS is an orchestral music-installation piece for deconstructed symphony orchestra that is spaced-apart in a foyer or an open space of a concert venue or at another suitable space or venue where the audience can walk around the space during the performance. The orchestra performs the work spread out in the open space as indicated, together performing the unified score. The audience is invited to take an active part in exploring the various elements, layers and perspectives in the musical language by literally walking within the musical landscape and to spatially explore how the various materials relate to each other and how they move between performers, creating not only a flow in the music but also a literal flow through the space.
More information about the work here: www.annathorvalds.com/metaxis
[please note that in this excerpt the audio is captured through the camera mic only, therefore capturing the sound relative to the camera position at any given time]
Recorded by Baldur Stefánsson
Video edited by Anna Thorvaldsdottir