Dream Protocol / Harmony Automatism | Eva Sidén, Irene Gellein
16 to 20 March 2026
A project based on an idea by Swedish composer, sound artist and pianist Eva Sidén and partly developed with Danish/Norwegian visual and sound artist Irene Gellein.
"Dream Protocol" merges live performance with immersive sound and video installation, exploring automatism, improvisation, dreams, and the subconscious. Handwritten scores serve as a starting point, translated into sound and visual compositions that integrate grand piano, flute, vocals, electronics, and dream-inspired textual material. Music is composed from material generated from improvisations.
Video works are created using feedback loops and installation objects, forming abstract and figurative shadow plays. By translating visual information into sound, the project examines the interplay between media, shaping environments where perception, attention, and experience are continually reconfigured.
Eva Sidén is a composer, sound artist, concert pianist and performer with an international career. She has a wide range of artistic creations in her ouvre, encompassing sound art with multichannel audio and video, instrumental music for various instruments and ensembles, electroacoustic music, chamber operas and music with dance performances as well as concert performances, both with her own music and of others. She is specialist in the interpretation of contemporary piano music.
Eva Sidén has developed an artistic concept for concert installations which combine music, sound and visuality, as well as acoustic instruments with electronics spatialized in specially created rooms. Keyboard instruments and the Grand Piano specifically are central for her artistic works. Her recent creations feature underlying stories inspired by themes like: natural phenomena, the borderline between life and death/destruction and creation, and images and sound from dreams.
Visit Eva Sidén's artist page - evasiden.se
Irene Gellein is a Norwegian painter and sound artist. She finished her masters degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2020, and is currently working in Denmark. Her sound consists of a vide range of instruments such as vocals, flute, synths, drum machines and guitar, looped and mixed with field recordings, effects, digital and analog elements. Making live-performances within experimental music, improvisation and noise, both with solo-project VRÆL, and in various collaborative projects.