"In Switzerland, four young adults explore, contemplate and, in the form of a letter, bid farewell to their favourite natural site. Forests, mountains, glaciers and lakes of overwhelming beauty follow one another, like postcards that attempt vainly to fix these landscapes in place, soon to be transformed by climatic disasters to which this generation will inevitably bear witness."
(Camille Kaiser - Visions du Réel)
The work has the intensity of a universal message, which transcends partisan logic or specific complex and controversial issues. Produced by young people, with the point of view of young people, it highlights an awareness that is often not recognized by these generations, obviously the most influential on the future. A desperate appeal and a global challenge to prevent the protagonists’ letters from becoming reality.
(MUSE – Museo delle Scienze)
In the music for Lukas Ackermann's film, I focused on creating a kind of voice of nature. Following the director's idea of showing nature transformed by human influence, the main musical idea was the timbre of the flute. It appeared in its pure form, composed of individual melodic phrases inspired by birdsong, balancing on the edge of air noise and extracting whistles and overtones, or combined with electronic sounds and white noise. This blending of extended flute and live-breathing techniques with artificial sounds created an additional level of meaning for the film.
Although the musical soundtrack is rather static, it has a dramatic contrast. In these moments, the electronics become more prominent, and the flute sound, through transformations, is stratified into many individual voices, forming a somber sound cluster. At the end, the electronically distorted flute penetrates into the cheerful song of the film's heroine, overlaps it and takes the song into the background, as if painting over the vocals, draining them of color.
Our habitat is in a state of flux. Four young adults say goodbye to places in nature, which mean a lot to them. Civilisation and nature meet, borders blur.