Music:
Instrument with live electronics or tape
Cracks and Corrosion II for guitar and live electronics.
First performance June 2, 2004. Comissioned by Svenska Rikskonserter.
Cracks and Corrosion II is part of a composition project that explores variation in music. Cracks and Corrosion II is built on the structure of Cracks and Corrosion I (for clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano). However, the music is reinterpreted to suit the mixed media, and Cracks and Corrosion II is an independent piece. Cracks and Corrosion II is the result of a collaboration with the guitaist Mĺrten Falk.
Amanzule voices for cello and live electronics.
First performance November 22, 1998.
It was on the way back from our visit to this village that an unforgettable moment came to pass. The sun was about to set (which it does very suddenly at the equator) and all the night sounds began. When we reached the marshes again we paddled in the dark surrounded by hundreds of frogs who "sang" their evening song. I was fascinated by the way they seemed to listen and wait in silence before starting a new "phrase" together. When they "sang" they all seemed to agree on a unison rhythm.
The piece was composed at IRCAM, Paris, and it uses score following technique and combines real time sound processing with prerecorded sound samples (recorded in Ghana). Amanzule Voices was premiered by Isabelle Veyrier in Espace de projection at IRCAM.
Résonance d'instrument á vent for windquintett and four channel tape.
First performance May 16, 1997.
The harmony in the piece is based on 2 chords from "Symphonies of Wind Instrumnets" by Igor Stravinsky.
...split by the frost for piano and tape.
First performance in May 1994.
The piece explores distortion techniques for piano sounds. The piano part is quite simple - the focus in the piece is on the processing of piano timbre.