A work connected to ecology, acoustics and embodiment; drawing on encounters and what happens in the connection. A fluctuation between hear-here-hér*-her.

Readers and improvisers are Carina Ehrenholm, Liv Kaastrup Vesterskov, Angela Rawlings and Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir. Text score extracted from writings and digital works by Angela Rawlings (In Memory: Jökull**, Jöklar) as well as by Roni Horn, Pauline Oliveros, R. Murray Schafer, David Suzuki, Bruce Chatwin, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Bernhard Leitner, Heidi Fast, Robert Macfarlane and Salomé Voegelin. He( a) r was recorded at Inter Arts Center in Malmö, Sweden.

The quadrophonic version was premiered at Nordic Music Days in 2016. He(a)r also exists in a seven-movement stereo version, which can be found on Nordic Affect’s album by the same title.

* hér is the Icelandic word for here.

** jökull is the Icelandic word for glacier

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir