Sound installation, 

In collaboration with Stockholm Early Music Festival (SEMF) and with the support of Embajada de España en Suecia

Tyska Kyrkan <–> Finska Kyrkan

Gamla Stan, Stockholm

May 31 – June 6, 2021 

www.semf.se/semf-2021/event/2133   

Lina Soderholtz, violin / 

Heidi Rohlin Westin, recorder flutes / Robin McGinley, organ / 

Niklas Billström, bass / 

Kari Mäkinen & Pavel Matveyev, installation / 

Ricardo Atienza, concept & production

La Folia is one of the earliest European musical themes. Born in the Iberian Peninsula in the XV century, La Folia crossed centuries and borders to inspire composers in Spain (Ortiz, Sanz), France (Lully, Marais) or Italy (Corelli, Vivaldi) among many other territories. RecercAndo invites us to explore its multiple forms and variations as we walk in Gamla Stan in the hands of Corelli, Ortiz and Lully. 

In its original form, along the SEMF festival, RecerAndo was a public sound installation made of 24 speakers in pairs covering the 250meters distance between Tyska and Finska Kyrkan, the two main SEMF venues. Each speaker was synchronized to play a different flavor of the same theme, a different variation. The walker was invited to experience this piece of pieces dynamically, in motion. And by doing that she/he is mixing, blending freely these materials, crossing through the piece and listening to it in unexpected ways which are not responding to the linear time logic conceived by the composer anymore. The walker is thus invited to a more active listening experience in which it is possible to choose how to explore and reconstruct a fragmented musical material placed in dialogue, in friction with Gamla Stan’s urban environment.