Travelling Heavenward is the first of four collages that make up the work Music for Virtual Orchestra, a work for tape produced at DIEM in 1995. Together with Music for Two Pianos the work was commissioned by the Boxiganga Performance Teater for the multimedia performance Kinematograf, which was premiered in Aarhus in November 1995. The performance, which was conceived and produced by Kjell Yngve Petersen, involved three-dimensional film projection as well as live performers. In connection with DIEM’s Planetarium Concert Series, Michael Nyvang and Kjell Yngve Petersen were commissioned to create a new multimedia work for tape and slide projection. The result was Music for Virtual Orchestra, which consists of the original four collages from Kinematograf in a four-channel version. Parallel to the idea of three-dimensional film projection used in the performance of Kinematograf, various spatialization techniques were used to place the sounds in “virtual rooms” and create the illusion of movement within these rooms.

[source: Réseaux des arts médiatiques]