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Lydbrøndene 2024: young composers in an outdoor sound field

Date
September 2024
Place
Bent Fabricius-Bjerres Plads, Frederiksberg

In 2024, young composers again wrote for the sound wells at Bent Fabricius-Bjerres Plads: a public space where music is not placed in front of an audience, but around them.

The square is large enough that people can move through the sound field — walking between the wells, cycling across the music, or even circling the sound image on electric scooters. That physical scale changes the compositional problem. A piece no longer behaves like a fixed concert object. It becomes something the listener enters, leaves, crosses and overhears.

That is precisely why the project is valuable for young composers: it forces them to think about musical form as space, distance, movement and public attention.

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