Music for Solaris
By Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason
Performed live by Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason with Sinfonietta Cracovia
Film manipulations by Brian Eno and Nick Robertson
Commissioned by Unsound Festival, Poland
World Premiere: Kraków Poland, October 2010
'We Don't Need Other Worlds. We Need Mirrors' is an ambitious project that celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Kraków writer Stanislaw Lem’s novel 'Solaris'. Written for twenty-nine string players, two percussionists, prepared piano, guitars and electronics by Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason and performed with Sinfonietta Cracovia, 'We Don't Need Other Worlds. We Need Mirrors' also draws inspiration from the Andrei Tarkovsky film adaptation. The performance features film manipulations of Brian Eno and Nick Robertson, drawing on moments from the original Tarkovsky film to create a visual parallel to the music composition process.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
