Musikk

Interrupted, live

This is one of the first works I composed using extended pianotechniques. A smal sound-tableau where the two sound-worlds of the piano converse and interrupt one another.

Rythm-improvisation

This is a rather rough improvisation from a work session where I experiment with damping some of the strings and having rythm as a central idea through it all.

Pressure

Pressure was written as an exploration into the nature of both physical and psychological pressure. Physical pointing to the soundeffects produced by adding pressure to the strings of the piano. Psychological pointing to the nature of the kind of stress and pressure which are the constant companion to any performing artist or musician, or any human being, for that matter.
When under pressure we tend to close up, become ridgid and stacatto and our thoughts and movements speed up and makes us loose control. Self-anger and impatiance are the results and with that also the chance to experience how vulnerable we become when confronted with our own self-critique.

Woven, live 2010

This work was inspired by a glasspainting by the Norwegian glassartist Tone Kjønniksen in which several fragments of luminous colour crisscrossed each other in a pattern of diagonals like a woven fabric. Technically it is based on a so-called “crystal chord” where the main harmonic material is taken from the Norwegian psalm “Ingen slipper frem til den evige ro” with melody by Lars Lindrot. Hidden within the work is also a mathematical code of personal significance pointing to the man I love.