About Us

Girilal Baars & Mari Kretz

Mari Kretz and Girilal Baars (SE) are performing and conducting Gracing Space, a live installation and performance that uses live feeds and field recordings of Very Low Frequency radio waves from the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere. The so-called VLFs are generated by cosmic and solar radiation and reflect the energy state of our local part of the universe; the outer bounds of Earth’s ecosystem.

Girilal Baars (SE) is a composer, singer and musician based in Uppsala, Sweden. Girilal works with vocal, acoustic and electronic music and holds to the idea that all rapid air-pressure changes are music. His piece Litanies in Zero Kelvin for voice, theremin and electronics was chosen for the Nordic Music Days in Oslo in 2009. In 2010 he wrote and staged an opera for two voices based on Karin Boye’s novel Kallocain. Girilal is particularly interested in exploring sounds from the cosmos, as he has been obsessed with space from a tender age. www.girilal.com

Mari Kretz (SE) is based in Stockholm working in the fields of acoustic and visual art. In her work, she has focused on scientific studies of acoustical phenomena in the atmosphere, low frequency radio waves traveling around Earth and in the depths of space, as well as electric signals generated by internal organs and the nervous system of the human body. Working with researchers and engineers, ranging from astronomy to medicine, she has visualised the barely perceptible worlds around us. www.marikretz.se