Tine Surel Lange: Midnight Sun Ritual
Midnight Sun Ritual (2020)
45’ audio and video
Concept, video, composition, live electronics, and body: Tine Surel Lange
Filming: Tine Surel Lange / J. G. Schmidt
Midnight Sun Ritual is a 45-minute live performance for processed sounding objects from everyday life and video. The work was first presented on July 17, 2020 at Flakstad Mikrofestival, Flakstad, Norway.
Sound sources: a wine glass, a metal bowl, and various other metal objects.
Arctic landscapes, surrounding sounds, mythologies, and sound choreography are some of the inspirations that shape the works by the Norwegian composer and interdisciplinary artist Tine Surel Lange (b. 1989, Vesterålen, Norway). Based in Lofoten, Northern Norway, her work is rooted in organic material – with a focus on listening, space, and how connotations color how we listen to and experience art. Lately, she has been focused on sound choreography, 3D sound, sounding objects, sound for scenic productions, and creating conceptual works for sound and image – fascinated by magical realism and the coming doom of the human race.
Surel Lange’s works have been presented in Europe, North America, and Asia. She’s been working with electro-acoustic compositions at institutions like CCRMA(US), EMS (SE), Notam (NO) and MISC (LT).
She has worked with musicians and ensembles like asamisimasa (NO), aksiom Ensemble (NO), Alpaca Ensemble (NO), BIT20 (NO), Collective Lovemusic(FR), Chordos String Quartet (LT), Jakob Bangsø, Lydenskab (DK), Oslo 14 (NO), Marco Fusi (IT), Mean Steel (NO), MolOt (RU), Siggi String Quartet (IS), SISU Percussion Ensemble (NO), and Parallax (NO).
Her works and installations have been performed/presented at festivals like Arctic Art Festival (NO), Aparte Festival (NO), Barents Spektakel (NO), Berlin International Guitar Festival (DE), Borealis (NO), Cellolyd (NO), DruskoManija (LT), Echofluxx (CZE), Glowing Electronics (SE), Greenlight District (NO), Frequenz – Festival der Klangkunst (DE), Lofoten Sound Art Symposium (NO), MOXsonic Missouri Festival for Experimental Sonic Arts (US), Nordic Music Days (DK/IS/FI/NO), Only Connect(NO), PureGold (UK), Svensk Musikvår (SE), The Symposium on Spatial Sound Arts (KOR), Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (NO), and UNM (SE/FI/NO).
Surel Lange has made sound for several dance performances: Holding Position, You might like me better if we sleep together and Until We Meet Again by choreographer/dancer Thomas Voll (NO), Is There by choreographer/dancer Thanh Chung Nguyen (VN), and choreographer/dancer Jun Boram (KR) with performances in South Korea and Singapore, and White String with choreographer/dancer Irina Demina (RU/DE) and tango guitarist Patricio Crom (AR) with performances in South Korea.
