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Let us all sense

Tine Surel Lange I AREPO

Saturday 12 September, at 17:30–18:30

160–350 kr

Come in. It’s dark out.

As a child, Tine Surel Lange heard a Danish priest invite his congregation with the words lad os alle bede — let us all pray. Beyond religion, the idea of a group of people called together into a communal act stayed with her.

Let us all sense is a full-length concert experience in four parts, built around four colours, four tastes, four textures and four musicians. The colours emerged from a period Surel Lange spent in Lofoten during the polar night. For weeks, the sun never rose above the horizon, yet darkness was never simply dark. The days hovered in twilight; deep blues giving way to traces of pink and gold on snow and sea. From this landscape, she chose four colours — blue, green, red and white — and began to explore how each might sound, taste and feel.

Performed by AREPO Ensemble, the work unfolds as a sequence of immersive sensory environments. Sound moves through the space in overlapping layers and shifting blocks. Taste, sight and touch also become part of the experience. We are invited to enter a shared sensory space and linger there together, undistracted.

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Mørketid is the Northern Norwegian word for the polar night, the period when the sun does not rise above the horizon. In the north, the dark season is also met with kos: candles, fires, warmth and togetherness. Let us all sense resonates with this tradition.
“It is not so important to me, this thing about genres” Tine Surel Lange says when asked to define her practice across music, image, video, performance and text: “I think the best word for me is storyteller. I tell stories.”
AREPO consists of clarinet, cello, electric guitar and accordion. Formed in 2022, the ensemble works closely with young composers including Olivia Køppe and Ferdinand Schwarz, both also featured at Ultima 2026, in And Now the Weather and Untitled School and Other Strange Lessons, respectively.
The concert is co-produced with nyMusikk Oslo – Periferien, a concert series for contemporary classical music that presents innovative music in Oslo throughout the year.