Stjärnboskéer (2025)

Durata:	30’
Category:	Electroacoustic music

Stjärnboskéer (2025) 30' – music installation, eight channels

Stjärnboskéer is a commission for the exhibition Den förtrollade skogen (The Enchanted Forest) at Artipelag.

Eleven artists, two composers and a choreographer participate: Tiril Hasselknippe (NO), Joakim Ojanen (SE), Berndnaut Smilde (NL), Charlotte Gyllenhammar (SE), Cristina Caprioli (IT/SE), Carsten Höller (DE), Diana Orving (SE), Barbara Ellison (IE),
Lars Nilsson (SE), Kim Hedås (SE), Fredrik Wretman (SE), Berlinde De Bruyckere (BE), Ernst Billgren (SE) och Lars Wallin (SE).

Stjärnboskéer was composed with inspiration from the garden rooms in Drottningholm Palace, where the Baroque park's layout of avenues, arbours and bosques form verdant theatres and passages, with sightlines that lead the eye ever onwards. Similarly, the music in Stjärnboskéer winds its way from the middle of the star and on through the green paths of the bosquet towards the deceptively untouched woodlands of the English park.
      Composer Kim Hedås has spent long periods exploring how time and space can be perceived and transformed into music. Stjärnboskéer was created especially for the Artipelag exhibition Den förtrollade skogen / The Enchanted Forest, and was recorded on instruments such as clavichord, zithers, violins, flutes, and percussion. The recordings were then processed in the studio, mixed with synthetic sounds, and are now distributed spatially through eight speakers. The work also incorporates field recordings from the gardens of Drottningholm Palace.
      Based on the spatialities and patterns of the Baroque garden, Hedås introduces another kind of enchanted nature into the divertimento: a nature that is turned into art through the perfection of geometry.

The exhibition is open 4 July - 17 August 2025.

http://artipelag.se/hander-pa-artipelag/den-fortrollade-skogen/