Cantus Arc
(2016)- Abstract
- Mattias Risberg is an organist, synthesizer player, pianist and composer who was living in Uppsala when we made this collaboration. We visited two churches several times outside of Uppsala, Vittinge Congregational Church in Vittinge and North Congregational Church in Tärnsjö, during the summer and fall of 2015, where we recorded three sessions of purely improvised music. We also had many conversations about music, literature and ideas around notions of community while driving to and from Uppsala. The tacit understanding I gained of the organ by improvising with Risberg on the violin, and how it might mesh with plans for this project by playing that music, informs all the subsequent work with organ here. Since the selection of instruments... (More)
- Mattias Risberg is an organist, synthesizer player, pianist and composer who was living in Uppsala when we made this collaboration. We visited two churches several times outside of Uppsala, Vittinge Congregational Church in Vittinge and North Congregational Church in Tärnsjö, during the summer and fall of 2015, where we recorded three sessions of purely improvised music. We also had many conversations about music, literature and ideas around notions of community while driving to and from Uppsala. The tacit understanding I gained of the organ by improvising with Risberg on the violin, and how it might mesh with plans for this project by playing that music, informs all the subsequent work with organ here. Since the selection of instruments in this project is, in part, a metaphor for Stockholms' architecture in transformation, the way Mattias transformed the instrument through his deeply sophisticated and multi-facetted improvisational language, also influenced my ideas about what methods of transformation to use on the instrument in subsequent work, in order to make it change in ways fitting to its ephemeral place as architecture in this group of works. Mattias made liberal use of half-stops, clusters and volume differentials to create the kind of multi-layered sonic world I had imagined for my own work. We released an album of some of these improvisations in January of 2016, as an internet-based Bandcamp release. This is a collaborative improvisation. (Less)
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- 2016-01-26
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- organ, violin, improvisation, half-stop, psychogeography
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- English
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abstract = {{Mattias Risberg is an organist, synthesizer player, pianist and composer who was living in Uppsala when we made this collaboration. We visited two churches several times outside of Uppsala, Vittinge Congregational Church in Vittinge and North Congregational Church in Tärnsjö, during the summer and fall of 2015, where we recorded three sessions of purely improvised music. We also had many conversations about music, literature and ideas around notions of community while driving to and from Uppsala. The tacit understanding I gained of the organ by improvising with Risberg on the violin, and how it might mesh with plans for this project by playing that music, informs all the subsequent work with organ here. Since the selection of instruments in this project is, in part, a metaphor for Stockholms' architecture in transformation, the way Mattias transformed the instrument through his deeply sophisticated and multi-facetted improvisational language, also influenced my ideas about what methods of transformation to use on the instrument in subsequent work, in order to make it change in ways fitting to its ephemeral place as architecture in this group of works. Mattias made liberal use of half-stops, clusters and volume differentials to create the kind of multi-layered sonic world I had imagined for my own work. We released an album of some of these improvisations in January of 2016, as an internet-based Bandcamp release. This is a collaborative improvisation.}},
author = {{Hernandez, Katt}},
keywords = {{organ; violin; improvisation; half-stop; psychogeography}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{01}},
title = {{Cantus Arc}},
year = {{2016}},
}