Elisabeth Klinck comes to present her new album Chronotopia in a unique setting at AB’s Main Hall. Following on from her debut Picture a Frame (Hallow Ground, 2023), the Belgian electro-acoustic artist now enters into a deeper dialogue with herself.
On Chronotopia, Klinck opts for a more song-oriented approach, embracing her voice as an essential counterweight to her violin. The album marks an important turning point in her artistic development and opens up a rich inner world. It is a tapestry of sound spun with the emotion and curiosity – both literally and figuratively – of her developing voice.
Klinck, who works as a composer and performer in the theatre, wrote the pieces between tours and recorded the album in the same setting as her previous work: in the Spanish Pyrenees, with producer Oscar Claus. Although the outside world is not as explicitly reflected in the recordings as on Picture a Frame, her second album responds to that outside world by capturing both the expansive serenity of the mountains and the hectic pulse of life on the road.
Whereas she used to take a moodier and more abstract approach, Klinck now creates a musical landscape that is established around song and imbued with intimacy. Her music feels both vulnerable and deeply human, balancing between the rawness of improvisation and the careful precision of melody-driven composition.
Klinck describes Chronotopia as a playful exploration of time, its fluidity, its limitations and its influence on how we experience the world. These ideas resonate in her melodies and lyrics, which balance between moments of brilliant clarity and messy, beautiful chaos. These contrasts are enhanced by the ingenious interplay of voice and violin, reflecting Klinck’s fascination with duality and transformation.
Recorded in both organic and controlled surroundings, Chronotopia blurs the boundaries between intuition and design. The ‘time-space’ into which Klinck invites her audience, is a place where sound feels like touch, where time bends like light and where every moment bears the tension of discovery.