Musicians Håkon
@jazzathlete and Davide
@davide_bertolini23 getting ready for the underwater concert at
@pluravalley Plura Cave Concert - the largest concert ever locked in air chamber in a cave that is scuba access only.
The music for this concert has been composed by Håkon Erlandsen, an artist whose focus is on expressing the emotions of extreme sports and expeditions through the medium of music. This artist is already renowned for his outlandish concert locations, holding the record for the world’s highest concert, played at 8848mas, on the summit of mount Everest and the world’s coldest concert, in Antarctica at a whopping minus 57 degrees Celsius. He has also had to work closely with Yamaha, whom he is an ambassador for, as they designed a saxophone hardy enough to play in the harshest conditions in the world.
Håkon, who has been cave diving since 2019, has composed this music based on his experience of cave diving. He plans on doing this by incorporating the sounds of the cave that speak most to him, such as the droplets of water and echo of bubbles. He says his goal with this project is to convey the feeling of cave diving to everyone, in his words “the simultaneous thrill and calmness you experience”. He says he wants to share the feeling of something being both beautiful and exciting at the same time. By utilising art to reach a greater audience and share an experience previously only held by few individuals
Santi is the partner of the event and has made dry bags to transport musical instruments and electronics through the passage of the cave to make this concert possible.
