“We arrived in Gothenburg on a Friday and on Monday I was at work,” says Claudio Fantini in a feature story in Dagens ETC. When he came to Sweden in 1948, the country was starving for labor, and as the factories filled with new employees, the foundation for the Swedish welfare state was laid. Today, society looks different, but the industrial premises remain as memories of a bygone era, and are now increasingly used for cultural events rather than factory production.

At the same time as his compatriots migrated to Sweden, composer Luigi Nono occupied himself with depicting the conditions of the Italian industrial worker. Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony, he strove to create encounters between the bourgeois-conditioned art music and the concrete reality of the working class. For La fabbrica illuminata (1964), Nono collected sound material from a steel mill outside Genoa, which, together with a composed soprano part, tells the story of the hazardous working conditions.

During the autumn, Italian soprano Felicita Brusoni will perform La fabbrica illuminata at three unique locations in the Västra Götaland region. The first event will take place on 20 September in Rexcell's paper factories in Dals Långed as part of the BRUK festival; the same day, the local village festival will also take place, where Levande Musik will participate with a workshop and concert, see information for the Kärl event above. The work will then be performed on 21/9 in Gothenburg, and the mini-tour will end on 26/9 in the old textile factory that now forms the Rydal Museum – here Vinko Globokar's Jenseits der Sicherheit will also be performed , which links to the theme of risk by asking how dependent we late-modern beings have become on security.