Kristine Tjøgersen

Let eardrums grow on your ribs.
Tongues on the soles of your feet.
Place your hands behind your ears.
There. Now you are ready for the night.

When the sun goes down, a new world comes to life that most of us know little about. Although we share physical space with its inhabitants, we rarely meet them, since evolution has given them senses that we humans do not have—senses that allow them to rule the night just as we rule the day.  Kristine Tjøgersen’s Night Lives (2023) is an excursion into this shrouded world of nocturnal creatures. Produced in a multidisciplinary collaboration with the Norwegian contemporary music ensemble Cikada, biologist and writer Hanna Bjørgaas, scenographer and performer Ellen Jerstad, visual artist and lighting designer Evelina Dembacke, and artist and designer Marie Payan, Night Lives offers a fantastical imagining of how bats, moths, owls, micro-organisms, and other nighttime dwellers communicate, immersing audiences in wonders that are beyond our human eyes and ears.

Welcome to Night Lives — to the world of those who sing in the dark and communicate on different frequencies.

To the album at Aurora Records

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