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In the project Lethe the research team of Anna Lindal, Andreas Hiroui Larsson, and Johan Jutterström investigates forgetfulness as an artistic method for a musical process, and the project takes its metaphorical point of departure at the Greek mythological river Lethe. Lindal (violin), Larsson (drums), and Jutterström (saxophone) constitute an ensemble, which performs practice-based research on forgetfulness as an artistic method and guiding principle. In Greek mythology, the river Lethe was considered to possess the power of forgetfulness, and the souls who were to enter or leave the underworld [to be reincarnated] drank from the river Lethe to forget, e.g., aspects of their previous life.























In contemporary civilization where everything is standardized and where everything is repeated, the whole point is to forget in the space between an object and its duplication. If we didn't have this power of forgetfulness, if art today didn't help us to forget, we would be submerged, drowned under those avalanches of rigorously identical objects (For the Birds, 1981).  -John Cage