“Över mitt ögas dag” by composer Lisa Stenberg and poet David Zimmerman is a collaborative text and sound composition in which past and future are constantly gravitating towards the present – a “now”, as raging as it is inept. The glacial electronics of Lisa Stenberg slowly grinds through David Zimmerman’s lyrical segments and repurposed fragments of poet Vilhelm Ekelund’s ancient grave epigrams, all the while lamenting:
Nej / inga klockor märker ut /
döda längre
För allt är onödigt,
en avsägelse
In addition to the collaborative title track, the album features five of Stenberg’s instrumental compositions. All sharing the poem by Zimmerman as a point of departure and centered around the Halldorophone – an electroacoustic string and feedback instrument created by Halldór Úlfarsson.
LISA STENBERG (b. 1980) is a composer and musician whose work with electronic and electroacoustic compositions primarily focuses on texture, timbre and spatiality in relation to music as an embodied experience. Stenberg is a member of the renowned art scene at Fylkingen & Elektronmusikstudion
EMS and is also an integral part of the Stockholm drone scene. Her works have been commissioned and performed at festivals and events for experimental and extreme music such as Donaufestival (AU), Inversia (RUS), Norbergfestival (SE), Open Source Art Festival (PL), Sonica festival (SI), documenta in Athens (GR), etc.
DAVID ZIMMERMAN (b. 1993) is a celebrated writer and critic based in Malmö. Until recently Zimmerman was the chief editor of Swedish poetry magazine Lyrikvännen. He has released three poetry collections
“Mal” (Anti editör, 2017), “Ljus och strålning“
(Albert Bonniers, 2019) and earlier this years
“Ark” (Albert Bonniers, 2025).
Edition of 100 copies.
Irrlicht, 2025