January 2012
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Sound artist and composer Leif Inge created 9 Beet Stretch by using digital tools to stretch a recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony so that it takes twenty-four hours to unfold.
The result is a remarkable remaking of Beethoven as massive soundscape: a piece in which familiar motifs develop twenty times more slowly than we’re used to, at times lovely, at times overwhelming.
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“But what you always strive for is an intensification of nature…so often the northern landscape is a cloud of confusion of shapes and colours and you have to reduce it to some kind of order…that tree sticking up in the centre is better moved to the side…anything you need you will find.”