Video of a North Star performance
Tacet(i) Ensemble has been uploading some of the performances of their concert in September. It’s now possible to watch a video of North Star here¨.
Tacet(i) Ensemble has been uploading some of the performances of their concert in September. It’s now possible to watch a video of North Star here¨.
The Tacet(i) Ensemble has now posted the concert’s full stream that included North Star on their Facebook page, which you can see here. Additionally, it’s possible to listen to the composition on my Soundcloud page. I will soon be getting the multi tracks and video to do a full mix and master. A video extract …
I’m very honored that my piece North Star (2018) has been chosen as one of the pieces to be played by the Tacet(i) Ensemble in Thailand. Congratulations as well to all of the other chosen composers and everyone that got an honorable mention. 524 works were submitted for this call for works in total. Tacet(i) …
The website has now been updated again, and I’ve merged most of the old blog posts back into the website as well. Hopefully it will not crash again. So far 2020 has only included two concerts due to the COVID-crisis. North Star was premiered in a concert which included Laconisme de l’aile by Saariaho played …
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Quasar is meant to be a 20 minute piece for sinfonietta (12 musicians) and electronics. The piece is inspired by having read quite a bit of science fiction and cosmology books in the last. I have thought of this piece for quite a long time before actually setting myself down to write it. Like several …
I finished the piece about 3 weeks ago now, and had to put it away for a little while to reflect more on it. As I was putting the finishing touches on the piece, a more direct conceptual idea of how to describe the piece arose, and is written in its program notes at the …
Last week I had a few hours with a good friend and colleague, Hilmar Thordarson. It’s often incredibly positive to have another composer one can use to bounce ideas off, when working on a new composition. I had sent him the notation as well as these blogs before meeting up. I find this useful to …
The last few days have been rather busy with other projects than this composition, but it has always been at the back of my mind. I can hear the piece in my mind much better at this point, but must develop the ideas more as well as work on its structure in a more substantial …
One of the first issues I have been thinking of is how to relate the electronics to what the pianist is playing and making both feel as a whole. I’ve always thought that this sounds easy, but it is clearly difficult and I often find myself disliking mixed music pieces as I find both entities …