first
posted by rupert on 10 June 2016

there are 2 personal statements i have to make as a starting point of this blog: - i never have been so far up north before, never experienced 24h sunlight / midnight sun. -and i have never written a blog before. this first contribution is written on the 5th day of my stay. i took my time to adapt to the time of the place, which is very different from the fragmented time i normally experience or serve. i took my time to think about the gravity of nature and how fragile the human enviroment is, that possibly nature is not so impressed by our achievements at all, does not care so much about us humans at all. i have to thank Leena Valkeapää for helping me to install myself here, helping me with shopping, and, by far the most important of all, explaining and partly translating her wonderful book. this opened my eyes, specially the drawings of the old sami lady. thank you so much! this is what i had in mind to do here: „i will choose an area in nature to be sonified.every plant, every stone will be surveyed and put in a map.other paramters will include the acoustical situation, the sounds i hear during my stay. this map will give me the structure and the parameters of the piece.as i am interested in a power- independent project i will compose a piano piece on paper. the essence, or „leitmotiv“ ( in the sense of a mathematical formula that summes up a process) will be tranformed in an object installed in the very area with materials that i find there, f.e stones. this object in nature- a musical landart- will be documented on photo.the photos will be printed in a limited edition and come together with the full written score. the object-score it self remains there after i leave.