Underskog

MIKROPHONIE
Lemur feat. Benjamin Maumus

For amplified instrumental quartet with live signal processing and multichannel diffusion.

Performers
Bjørnar Habbestad : flutes
Hild Sofie Tafjord : horn
Lene Grenager : cello
Michael Duch : doublebass
Benjamin Maumus : sound processing and diffusion

Lemurʼs new project “Mikrophonie” targets the most intimate of listening situations between an instrument, a performer and an audience. By using headsets as an integrated part of the listening space, Lemur blurs the distinction between the visual and the aural parts of a performance and invites the audience into the body of the instruments.

Through carefully placed microphones at different locations on and in the proximity of the instruments Lemur creates a sonic microscope, performed, mixed and diffused in real time. The piece challenges conceptions of instrumental, electro-acoustic and social space, setting all these components into play through a balancing and manipulation of real and virtual sonic rooms.

The project is initiated by Lemur as part of the ensembleʼs research into sound and space. Where Lemurʼs Critical Band looked at how the architectural properties of a performance space could define elements of a composition, Microphonie shifts the focus inward, exploring the musical possibilities inside our very instruments.