Ceremony Container
  

  • 2024
  • 55’
  • concert-installation for ensemble and audio
  • bfl. ob/cor. cl/bcl. alto/bari sax. perc. pno. 2vln. vla. 2vc. audio
  • commissioned by Ensemble Mosaik and Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung


  • Shunning traditional performance formats, Ceremony Container disperses the live musicians of Ensemble Mosaik around the vast Betonhalle of Silent Green, through which the audience move and settle freely as the music unfolds. Operating on the blurred lines between a sculptural installation and a concert, this spatial work collages together Sheen’s fragile, hypnotic, instrumental music and electronic sound into an immersive, ‘playful and emotional’ experience (The Cusp).

    Part new commission, part retrospective collating music untangled from works dating back as far as 2014, Ceremony Container was created on a residency at the Wilhelm Kempff Cultural Foundation Positano awarded by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.