ESS in cooperation with Lund 2014 launches an exciting new project showing connections between music and science. Artistic director for the project is the world famous trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger.

- For a long time I have wished to create a musical programme which brings together  classical, contemporary and future music. As artistic director for a Neutron Music Festival I will be able to bring this into effect, says Håkan Hardenberger. The arts and sciences share a common dilemma: That which is at the front, the cutting edge innovation, is most often removed from everyday life. For most people it becomes hard to access. It doesn’t have to be so.

During the year of Lund as European Capital of Culture 2014, this will all result in a unique one week long festival where the classical, the modern and the music of the future meet in small as well as in  large scale concerts, with a “grande finale” up at the construction site for ESS where world artists will meet and genres are mixed in a large outdoor concert.

Project developer at ESS is Karl McFaul, a multidisciplinary artist who here brings unorthodox new methods into the ESS communication work. He means that the concept of neutron music hasn‘t existed until now, but if every composer and musician give their own interpretation of the concept we will get to see the birth of a new music genre in the region - Neutronica.

- Research implies creativity and creativity implies a rich cultural life, says Colin Carlile, director at ESS. Through the Neutron Music Project we can communicate on a deeper level to the citizens of Lund and Øresund as well as to the international research community what ESS stands for.

- This is the type of project which makes Lund so special as a candidate for European Capital of Culture, says Albin Balthasar, project leader for Lund 2014, the connection between history and cultural heritage on one side, and science, innovation and unruly creativity on the other side.

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Press images from the meeting can be downloaded here:
http://esss.se/neutronica.html