Berichte/Features
Woche 25-30 / 16.06. - 27.07.08
Swedish Focus III
curated by Johannes S. Sistermanns
Electroacoustic Music from Sweden
01. Mirjam Tally / Blow / 07:46
02. Mirjam Tally / Turbulence / 09:56
03. Sten-Olof Hellström / AMBIENT EDGE / 07:17
04. Ann Rosén / STRESS / 06:10
05. Ann Rosén/ SLIPLAY / 02:34
06. Ann Rosén / 5'15'' / 05:15
07. Hanna Hartmann / Att fälla grova träd är förknippat med risker / 08:35
08. Hanna Hartmann / Plåtmås/ 03:02
09. Hanna Hartmann / Musik för dansstycket jag glömmer bort / 06:53
Mirjam Tally / Blow / 07:46
Electroacoustic composition (with video)
Premiered in February 2006 in Island, during the festival "Dark music days"
The electro-acoustic composition “Blow” (2005) was created at the Studio Alpha at Visby International Centre for Composers. There I used some sounds from my usual everyday environment: the bottle blowing, the heavy rain-drops on my window, the pizzicato of wine-glasses... and developed these sound sources further to imaginary “blowing-landscape” where a wind never becomes silent.
Mirjam Tally / Turbulence / 09:56
for amplified orchestra and live-electronics
(will be performed at ISCM World Music Days, 2008);
Premiered on April 13th 2007 during thefestival "Estonian Music Days"
Crosswinds, flickering, a breeze. The sound of a ferry coming ashore, or a plane shivering in a tempest. These and other ideas used in this work came to life during a ferry trip to Hiiumaa island, listening to various noises of the engine and the rattling of the ship, until, suddenly, music emerged from the noise -- strong and powerful.
The ideas were further developed during some plane trips, and there was even a part played by a "wistful factory" in Visby that, due to complaints from the neighborhood, no longer "sings", but once inspired me with the sounds of its machinery.
A symphony orchestra, which uses electric instruments and alters its sound live, further emphasizes the relation to the theme "in-between - contemporary music as a transit zone and middle ground", augmenting classical soundscapes with modern technology. Here, natural sounds meet mechanical sounds, weaving a unified musical fabric. The result is a sonorous jungle illustrating the workings of a machinery and the beauty of creaks and rattles therein; sounds that are so common in our landscapes and environment, and so often considered terrible, but true gems nonetheless.
Mirjam Tally graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in 2000 as a student of Lepo Sumera. During the studies she also received guidance in electronic music from Rauno Remme. In 2003 she obtained the master degree at the Estonian Academy of Music. 1998–2004 Tally was active as a freelance program host in the Estonian classical music channel Klassikaraadio; 2003-2006 she worked as an editor of the Estonian music magazine Muusika. Tally has published articles on music also in other editions.
Tally's work "Swinburne" participated at the International Rostrum of Composers in 2001. In August 2005 Tally was in Visby International Centre for Composers as a grantee of NOMUS. Works she created in VICC´s electronic music studio premiered at the Dark Music Days festival in Reykjavik in February 2006. In 2008, Tally's orchestral work "Turbulence" participates in ISCM World Music Days in Vilnius and at The Venice Biennale's International Festival of Contemporary Music. Since the autumn of 2006, Mirjam Tally lives and works in Visby on the island of Gotland, Sweden.
Mirjam Tally has collaborated with ensembles and musicians, such as Kaspars Putninsh and Altera Veritas (Latvia), Ensemble Courage (Germany), The Gothenburg Combo (Sweden), Ensemble Wirbel, Küberstuudio, Weekend Guitar Trio, flutist Monika Mattiesen, Estonian zither (kannel) player Kristi Mühling, and others. Tally’s choral work “2 pages, 122 words on music and dance” was commissioned by Kaspars Putninsh, chief conductor of Estonian National Male Choir, in 2005. Presently Tally is collaborating with Ülo Pikkov in the realm of animation.
Tally´s music has been performed at the International New Music Festival NYYD in Tallinn, at the Estonian Music Days festival, at David Oistrakh Festival in Pärnu and elsewhere in Europe (Germany, Latvia, Iceland). In collaboration with ARM Music Tally released an author’s CD in 2003. In 2004, she was awarded the Heino Eller Music Prize. “Turbulence” was awarded the Composer Prize at the Estonian Music Days Festival 2007. In 2008, Tally was awarded the annual prize of the Society of Swedish Composers.
www.mirjamtally.com
www.myspace.com/mirjamtally
Sten-Olof Hellström / AMBIENT EDGE / 07:17
During my work together with Ann Rosén I started to think about modifying some of the ideas we worked with and adapt them to my compositional work. Two of Ann's exhibits involved silent sounds in very different ways. In "Spatial Silences", silent zones where created through the technique of active noise control and in the exhibit ‚Schhh...’ an inaudible sound controlled audible noise. My idea was to use inaudible sounds and let them interfere with each other thus creating audible shadows.
Sten-Olof Hellström has been active as a professional composer since 1984 and gained a Masters of Music in composition at University of East Anglia, England 1990. He has been employed as a researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) since 1997. As a researcher Sten-Olof has mainly worked in the fields of Human Computer Interaction and sonification (representing data with sound). One example of current work is the construction and development of a computer interface for the visually impaired. Sten-Olof’s main occupation and profession is as a composer working with electro-acoustic music. His music has been performed and broadcast around the world . He is also active as a performer playing live electro-acoustic music.
www.tii.se/node/1286
portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=633364
Ann Rosén / STRESS / 06:10
"Stress" is originally composed for four-channel but is here remixed to suit stereo playback. During a period of heavy stress I composed this piece that’s about stress!
Nothing works, loads of unwanted side effects, not enough time, distractions etc.
Ann Rosén/ SLIPLAY / 02:34
After a series of large and demanding projects I needed a break and longed after doing something different, something that was fun and filled with lust. In the middle of the winter, equipped with a few microphones and a minidisk recorder I set of for the north of Sweden to collect sounds and ideas for a new sound piece. With a "spark" a sort of Swedish kick-sled, skies, snow and ice I made sounds that I later modified using a software that conveniently was named "Spark".
Ann Rosén / 5'15'' / 05:15
5’15’’ is the first work in the project Deputy Silences. How does visual noise affect our perception of silence? In the composition 5’15’’ it is the transition between sound and silence, between chaos and calm. When I gathered sound material for this piece I noticed that there was always noise from distant traffic on my recordings. This inspired me to remove all the normal sounds from the sound files and just keep the garbage i.e. the clicks, glitches noise etc and use this as the material for 5’15’’.
Ann Rosén is a sound artist, composer and performer.
Sound, space, people, meetings, processes and collaborations are all important factors in her art. In her recent works such as "Deputy Silences", "Schhh" and "Spatial Silences" she explores different aspects of sound and the social context in which it is encountered. As a composer Ann works mainly with EAM (Electro-Acoustic Music) utilizing different surround techniques such as in Surr, IC - first movement, Stress etc. When performing Ann uses a variety of sensor based controllers that she develops and builds herself. In her solo work Ann prefers to work with compositions but together with others she often but not always takes on the role as an improviser.
www.annrosen.nu
Hanna Hartmann / Att fälla grova träd är förknippat med risker / 08:35
Hanna Hartmann / Plåtmås/ 03:02
Hanna Hartmann / Musik för dansstycket jag glömmer bort / 06:53
Hanna Hartman ist eine schwedische Komponistin und Klangkünstlerin, die in Berlin lebt.
Geboren 1961 in Schweden,lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Studium der Theater- und Literaturwissenschaft an den Universitäten Uppsala und Stockholm sowie Radio und Interactive Media am Dramtiska Institutet und Elektroakustische Musik am EMS in Stockholm. Sie erhielt u.a den Prix Europa (1998), den Karl-Szcuka-Prize (2005) sowie den Swedish Music Publishers' annual Award (2007) und ist Composer in Residence beim Sveriges Radio (2007/08).
www.komplott.com
www.hannahartman.de
Hier werden Produktionen aus Archiven der Elektroakustischen Musik, wie z.B. dem Archiv der DEGEM oder dem IDEAMA- und dem DEGEM-Archiv des ZKM, dem Archiv des elektronischen Studios der TU Berlin sowie anderen internationalen Archiven und Dokumentationen elektroakustischer Kunst unter verschiedenen Aspekten präsentiert.