It will never not be midnight is an audiovisual work originally commissioned by Elektronmusikstudion, the renowned centre for Swedish electroacoustic music and sound-art, as the official work for their 60th anniversary celebration in 2024. A part of the commission was gaining access to the archives of The Swedish Museum of Performing Arts, The Music and Theatre Library of Sweden and the Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research. It will never not be midnight emerged after taking inspiration as well as collecting material from these archives, preserving the past as it is gently handled and integrated in the present.
Photographs colored by hand and collages seamlessly float in and out of each other through the means of three overlapping analogue slide projectors, accompanied by a sound composition of electronic music and a voice narrating a poetic story divided into two acts.
Act I is centered around themes of loss, exploring remembrance ability to preserve fragile connections to places and people who are absent. Images of domestic interiors, different projections of a home, become structures containing memories, where the past continues to exist.
In Act II we follow the collapse of boundaries, as the structure of the home has been lost. Three women portray an ambiguous state of being where limits and borders merge in and out of each other. Identity, dream and reality are all in continuous flux.
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Music, images and text: Nadine Byrne
Narrator: Sarah Kim
Singing: Ambra Byrne, Tanya Byrne and Nadine Byrne
Actors: Bianca Cruzeiro, Emelie Garbers and Lilja Fredrikson
Curator/Technical coordinator: Mats Lindström
Thank You: Everyone who made this work possible!
Sarah, Ambra, Tanya, Bianca, Emelie, Lilja.
Elektronmusikstudion, The Swedish Museum of Performing Arts,
The Music and Theatre Library of Sweden, Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research.