Ljudbio III

Dokumentation för Ljudbio III 2016

Ljudbio III, 2016

Slottsbiografen, söndag 4 december 2016

För tredje året i rad presenterar kulturföreningen NEO en konsert kurerad av Girilal Baars och Thommy Wahlström med elektroakustisk musik. Denna gång i format med fyra och fem högtalare. Konserten genomförs med stöd från Uppsala kommun, Slottsbiografen och Elektronmusikstudion.

Medverkande verk och kompositörer:

  1. Nav (4.0) Helene Hedsund (SE)
  2. La scompozione della mente (4.0) Luca Turchet (IT/SE)
  3. The Kitchen Sessions: 4AM (4.0) Sol Andersson (SE)
  4. Breathe (5.0) Mirjam Tally (EE/SE)
  5. In Absinthe (4.0) Lars Bröndum (SE)
  6. Råttfällan (5.1) Maria Lindström (SE)
  7. The Colour of Space (5.0) Pär Johansson (SE)
  8. asinglewordisnotenough1 (5.0) Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (CA)
  9. Fyr (4.0) Zuriñe F Gerenabarrena (ES)
  10. Around (4.0) Marcecl Nichan (SE)
  11. Lidan II (5.0) Ríkharður H. Friðriksson (IS)
  12. 2016 invention for EA no. 12 (4.0) Thommy Wahlström (SE)
  13. Mala Ma (4.0) Julie Mondor (FR)
  14. Dogtown III (stereo) Rosanna Gunnarson (SE)

 

Helene Hedsund

Helene Hedsund har varit aktiv vid EMS (EletronMusikStudion) i Stockholm sedan 1994. Hon är för närvarande doktorand i komposition vid University of Birmingham, UK.

Nav (2010) utgår från inspelningar av vatten i olika stadier: rinnande, porlande, droppande, svallande, kluckande… Blunda!

Luca Turchet

Luca Turchet (1982), is an Italian musician and composer. He holds master degrees in composition, electroacustic music, classical guitar, and computer science, as well as a PhD in media technology. Currently his artistic research focuses on building and playing conventional acoustic instruments augmented with sensor technology. He is the author of several compositions for these instruments, such as hyper-hurdy-gurdy, hyper-zampogna and hyper-guitars.

La scomposizione della mente (”The decomposition of the mind”) is a composition of 2016 inspired to an early work of the same author ”La mente mente” (”The mind lies”) composed in 2007. The piece is a continuous evolution of a sonic fragment of running water. The water is indeed the archetype of the mind.

Sol Andersson

Sol Andersson is a Stockholm based composer and artist. The voice is no longer the main instrument although it played a crucial part in the beginning on her musical journey. When introduced to the analog 4track portable recorder in the early 90s it became possible to explore a world beyond mixtapes. Coming from a background of choir singing and classical training it was also a great introduction to start using the voice for another purpose than traditional singing. Thanks to a number of music collaborations with an urge to explore and experiment with different electronic genres her own work got time to develop at the pace that it needed. Sol presently pursues a mixture of influences and interests.

The Kitchen Sessions: 4AM: ’Pierre Menard did not want to compose another Quixote, which surely is easy enough – he wanted to compose the Quixote.’ (Borges, ”Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”) The initial question – What is my kitchen’s being and is it possible for me to detect and understand it and also even somehow capture it? Thinking about this and using time, space & memory as gateways into some sort of understanding about the kitchen’s being, but also as tools to interpret and transform the mindexperiment into a musical composition. Originally mixed in B-format and played in 17.4 speakers + 1 mono speaker at Audiorama (Stockholm).

Mirjam Tally

Sound is central in Mirjam Tally’s creations. Her music is a flow of playful contrasts where a sense of humour and poetic use of sound are blended to mix. She has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music as a student of Lepo Sumera in 2000. Since 2006, Tally lives on the island of Gotland, Sweden. In 2009–2010, she was Composer in Residence at Swedish Radio P2 channel. Tally ́s music has been performed in over 20 countries.

Breathe (2005) is created at Visby International Centre for Composers, in Studio Alpha. I have used extended techniques of flute, recorded with Estonian flutist Monika Mattiesen.

Lars Bröndum

Lars Bröndum (fil.dr) är tonsättare, live-elektronikmusiker, teoretiker och gitarrist. Bröndums musik har uppförts i Sverige, Japan, Skottland, Ryssland, Litauen, Finland, Lettland, England, USA, Spanien och Mexico. Hans musik har också sänts i radio i Tyskland, England, Sverige, Italien och USA. Lars album ”Fallout” vann Manifestpriset 2016 i kategorin experimentell musik. Lars arbetar ofta med interaktion mellan akustiska och elektroniska instrument och hans musik utforskar gränslandet mellan noterad musik och improvisation.

Titeln In Absinthe är en ordlek på frasen ”In absentia” (frånvarande) och drycken absint. Stycket är komponerad för fyra kanaler och kan spelas utan min närvaro (in absentia). Drycken absint blev förbjuden på början av 1900-talet eftersom man trodde att den framkallade galenskap och hallucinationer. Det har dock visat sig att absint inte alls framkallar galenskap så absint är en laglig dryck idag. Ingen absint har konsumerats i kompositionen av stycket utan använder sig av associationer till vad jag tycker ordet besitter – t.ex. (mar)drömsk, suddig och förvrängd harmoni, nyckfull dynamik och fragmenterade glitchiga och osymmetriska melodiska fraser. Med 4-kanal högtalaruppställningen har jag även använt en hel del ”spinning” för att ge känslan av vertigo. Stycket är ett collage av tre live improvisationer var jag huvudsakligen har använt analoga synthesizers.

Maria Lindström

Maria Lindström är verksam som musiker/tonsättare. Med en bakgrund som folkmusikviolinist kombineras ofta element från traditionell folkmusik med elektroakustisk musik i hennes kompositioner. Maria har skrivit musik för bland annat ljudinstallationer och dansföreställningar och studerar idag komposition på Musikhögskolan i Stockholm.

Råttfällan: Bjursmål är en dialekt som talas i Bjursås socken i sydöstra Dalarna. Dialekten är idag nästintill utdöd. Materialet till ”Råttfällan” grundar sig på ett kort urklipp från en berättelse på bjursmål. Ljuden i musiken är inspelade i trakten kring Bjursås och berättelsen handlar om en råttfälla. Vokalernas ordning har utformat kompositionen.

”å på môron när ja va dit å såg ättär hur ä ha gått då, sô var ä tôlv i hinken då. å så sännä vart dä så där en fäm säx nån natt då. Män så vart dä slut sänd.”

Pär Johansson

Pär Johansson (f. 1972) komponerar elektronmusik och arbetar som musikbibliotekarie. Mer infomation på www.parjohansson.se The Colour out of Space (2002) ”West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss- coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges; but these are all vacant now, the wide chimneys crumbling and the shingled sides bulging perilously beneath low gambrel roofs.”

The Colour out of Space bildar, tillsammans med The Outsider och At the Mountains of Madness, sviten Tombeau de Lovecraft, som löst bygger på tre noveller av Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937). Men berättelsernas innehåll återspeglas bara på ett mycket ytligt plan – det väsentliga har i stället varit att fånga deras stämningar.

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay is a composer and a performer on bass guitar and sound processing devices, in solo and within the groups ars circa musicæ (Paris, France), de type inconnu (Montréal, Québec), and Splice (London, England, UK). He is a member of the London-based collective Loop. His music is released by empreintes DIGITALes and Ora. Pierre Alexandre Tremblay is Professor in Composition and Improvisation at the University of Huddersfield (England, UK) where he also is Director of the Electronic Music Studios. He previously worked in popular music as producer and bassist, and is interested in video music and coding. He likes spending time with his family, drinking oolong tea, gazing at dictionaries, reading prose, and taking long walks. As a founding member of the no-tv collective, he does not own a working television set. In 2016 he was awarded the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music organised by the Canada Council for the Arts.

asinglewordisnotenough1: ”Traduttore, traditore,” says the Italian proverb. ”Traduire, c’est avoir l’honnêteté de s’en tenir à une imperfection allusive,” nuances the translator Pierre Leyris. This series of pieces looks at the impossibility of translating, firstly, the text, then, the context. The multiple nuances of words and images, flatten, lost, unseizable. Moreover, it is also a reflection on the inexpressible, where music and silence, allow some states / sentiment / experience to be expressed with more power / precision / nuances. Therefore, this suite of pieces should be taken as different expressions of a single impression, whose sense is multiplied by their common / composed / remembered past. Explain / comment / multiply the music by music, or as Harold Bloom says so elegantly: ”The meaning of a poem can only be another poem.” This first piece/iteration/instance is the ‘theme’ of the suite, in three movements, each musing on one approach to the action of defining: by stubborn repetition, by nuanced contemplation, and my logical development.

Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena

Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena studied composition with C. Bernaola and Franco Donatoni. Gerenabarrena has written pieces for orchestra, chamber ensembles, theatre, dance, acousmatic, sound installations and multidisciplinary shows.

Fyr (2016) is a multi-channel work composed in Studio Alpha in VICC, Visby (Sweden), during my residence in Spring 2016. In Fyr the voice is material that is atomized to assimilate to the sonorous landscape. I explored in this work the relationships emerging as pure sound and I searched a constructive relationship between the internal and outside sound, where the possibilities, the stimuli of nature linked with technology resources produced and processed in studio.

Marsel Nichan

Marsel Nichan jobbar sedan 2012 med sitt nystartade skivbolag och är aktiv som producent och arrangör. Marsel balanserar som tonsättare ständigt mellan flera kulturella inspirationskällor. I den meningen är han en tidstypisk representant för en ung, växande tonsättargeneration som allt mer låter sig påverkas – intryck/uttryck – från ett mångkulturellt samhälle. För Marsel personligen formas inte denna sammansatta mångfald till separata infall, dekorativa färgklickar, utan snarare till en slags konstnärlig helhet, en oupplöslig komposit eller legering. Han gräver i den globala myllan. Dagens expansiva ljudlandskap utgör en skattkista för hans skapande, en ständig källa till inspiration och förnyelse.

Around (2016) bygger på ljudinspelningar på instrumentet duduk av Leif Karlborg som processats försiktigt till ett tjockt ljudlandskap. Stycket har en meditativ karaktär.

Ríkharður H. Friðriksson

Ríkharður H. Friðriksson’s music falls into two general categories; he either makes pure electro-acoustic music, working with natural sounds and their movement in space, or he does live improvisations, playing electric guitar, processed with live electronics, either alone or with the Icelandic Sound Company. He teaches composition and electronic music at Iceland Academy of the Arts, Kópavogur Music School and the Reykjavík College of Music. In his spare time he plays punk rock.

Lidan II (2002/2011): Do you have a sore throat? A bad cold? Did you have too much to drink last night? Is the voice shot and the respiratory mechanism in shambles? The idea came trough in the darkest time of year when the composer suffered from most of the above and the sound environment of broken respiratory- and speaking mechanisms surrounded and obsessed him for a good number of days. Lidan is an Icelandic word for the state of one’s health. The original Lidan was not finished properly for the given deadline. Take two resulted in pretty drastic reorganisation of the whole thing. Hence the title; Lidan II. The work was done almost entirely using the Kyma/Capybara system at the Kopavogur Computer Music Centre in Iceland in darkest part of the winter of 2001–2002. Time passes and in 2011 the piece was slightly re-worked and re-mixed into more channels than the original version.

Thommy Wahlström

Thommy Wahlström, musiker och tonsättare. Tar avstamp i grönskan kring stigen varifrån man med varierande lätthet kan betrakta de områden som inom synhåll och utom synhåll, ger sig till känna och inte ger sig till känna. I lunden den gröna går en dans och det går inte en dans men där går en figur och där går inte en figur, i lunden den gröna. Thommy Wahlström, tonsättare och musiker med bakgrund inom EAM, folkmusik och improviserad musik. Utbildad i komposition på Musikhögskolan i Stockholm. I Wahlströms musik kan man skönja hur tydliga strukturer blandas med rent intuitiva flöden i samma rörelseart som i exempelvis blandningen mellan akustiskt och elektroniskt.

2016 invention for EA no.12, Excerpts and fork from ”i Kolarskog II” är som en folkmelodi men i en helt annan ljudvärld, samma kontakt med skogarna, bäcken, kolarna och flottarna. Inte ett naturlyriskt stycke, men ett stycke som innehåller känslan av skogslivet.

Julie Mondor

Julie Mondor started playing cello at the age of 10. She explores contemporary music and plays baroque cello. She creates performances combining contemporary circus, music. She has composed film music for ”Hermes” by Saad Salman and ”Compostelle le chemin de la vie” by F. Mouchard. She is a graduate of Le studio d’éléctroacoustique de Pantin with C. Groult, M. Marini and J. Prager.

Mala Ma: ”I wanted to experiment the Ma, a Japanese word rediscovered, one of the simplest and most ambiguous; a concept of spatiality which quadrophonie will be able to experiment.” In Japan, both time and space were conceptualised with the word MA, meaning ”natural distance between two or more things that exist in a continuity,” or ”space or vacancy between things.” MA came to mean a space surrounded by poles and screens, i.e. ”rooms,” and in relation to time it was ”the natural pause or interval between two or more phenomena occurring continuously” (Iwanami Dictionary of Ancient Terms).

Rosanna Gunnarson

Rosanna Gunnarson, 24-årig kompositör från Värmdö. Har studerat komposition på Gotlands tonsättarskola samt Kungliga musikhögskolan i Stockholm. – Min musik är ibland elektronisk, ibland akustisk, ibland till film, men ganska ofta någonstans i gränslandet mellan alltsammans. Jag är väldigt intresserad utav olika ljudvärldar, transporterande rörelseenergi och ögonblick av flow i relation till musik.

Dogtown III är precis som det låter det tredje stycket i min Dogtown-serie, där jag inspirerats utav rörelseenergin som uppstår när någon surfar på vågor. I just det här stycket föreställde jag mig en välfylld line-up (en surf-term för det turordnings-system som råder i vågorna) i Kalifornien där det är en kamp för att ta plats, och nästan varje våg surfas.

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