Sonica Sequence

The project Sonica Sequence came to life in Cuba in 2012. In an abandoned lot turned makeshift soccer pitch in old Havanna Lisa Nordström met up with the percussionist Hanser Santos Gómez. Two musicians who had never played together before, never rehearsed together and not even talked about what they were going to play. With the city’s soundscape as a backdrop they explored each other’s musical expression and the end product turned into the first step on a four year long journey for Lisa Nordström. Sonica Sequence has taken her from Cuba to Japan, Cyprus and Indonesia in search of musical meetings in everyday environments. In a karaoke bar, a busy subway car, a back alley or in the middle of a rice field - all perfect settings for improvised musical gatherings with humans from different cultures communicating only in the universal language of musical expression. The project became a critically acclaimed documentary film that was reborn as the album Volume. In 2021 the Sonica Sequence duo also releases the soundtrack from the movie. The album collects musical encounters, sounds and reflections from different corners of the world and come together as a naked and curious whole.