György Kurtág / Luciano Berio

Four female composers, take up, sixty years later, the utopic quest for continuity between the so-called popular arts and the so-called learned arts, as expressed in Luciano Berio's Folk Songs. In order to do so, they turn their attentions to sound of an impure nature, raw impulses and the sensations brought on by a tremor.

With its blend of seemingly unrelated text, music and sounds, reflecting different facets of the history of today’s world, what legacy does Luciano Berio's virtuoso piece Sinfonia, one of the major works of the 1960s, leave behind? And what resonances can Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir extract from it now?