MUNCH + Music: Fredrik Høyer and Bendik Baksaas meets The Scream

Is The Scream the world's most famous motif? The swaying figure towards the blood-red sunset has at least been commented upon and parodied endlessly, and the painting has inspired the creation of a whole range of other art expressions. The Scream has been used as a symbol of world crises from all the way back to World War I, during Brexit, and now the corona pandemic.

- I think it's a roar from the ground right now because the earth is in crisis. It is the planet we live on - it cries to us, from the echo of Atlantis, that now we must begin to see the planet from the outside - now we must listen to the voice of the heart, says Fredrik Høyer.

INSPIRED BY MUNCH'S TEXT

Høyer says that he is inspired by Munch writing that he heard a scream, in a way through nature. A song from the earth. Together with Baksaas, he sat down and began to work from what that tone was to them, both in text and in electronic music.

- For me, an "A" is 440 Hertz, and I'm pretty sure Mother Earth is broadcasting frequencies. I don't know if it's at 440 Herz, but you can hear a low-frequency elephant roar from the ground, I'm sure. And that's what we wanted to try to interpret in a techno track, says Høyer.

This is Edvard Munch's text:

I was walking along the Road with two Friends
The Sun was setting
The Sky turned / blood red
and I felt a wave of Sadness
I stood still tired to Death
above / the blue-black Fjord and City blood and Flaming Tongues hovered
My Friends walked on
I / remained behind
shaking with Angst
I felt the great Scream in Nature

In the series MUNCH + Music you can experience unique performances and music inspired by Edvard Munch.