Performed by the Foot In The Door Ensemble on October 12, 2016
Hartt School of Music (West Hartford, CT)

A Series of Breaths (2013)

Edited recording of reading session by Wet Ink: Erin Lesser, Liam Kinson, Alex Mincek, Rachel Drehmann, Weston Olencki, Ian Antonio, Laura Barger, Josh Modney, Marina Kifferstein, Carrie Frey, Mariel Roberts, Tristan Krause, with Eric Wubbels, conductor and Sam Pluta, recording engineer. St. Peter's Church, Chelsea, New York, NY. 2017.

I watched her smile her hand

happy valley (extract)

Streifenjunko: Everything we touch is electric

Cycles/Emptiness (2018)

Strings iv

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Juliet Fraser, Amanda Morrison (soprano)
Lucy Goddard (mezzo)
Tom Williams (countertenor)
David de Winter, Alastair Putt (tenor)
Simon Whiteley, Jimmy Holliday (bass)

James Weeks (conductor)

UK premiere, live performance
Milton Court Concert Hall, London
22 March 2019

'The backgrounds of the pieces are lists: lists of chords and lists of words. The elements of the lists are not arbitrary, but have loose connections and touch contents, emotions and continuations.

light 
fall 
breeze 

shade 
view 
trace 

birds 
flew 
south 

long 
late 
lost 

Last snow 
last bird 
last plaine 
last tune 
last loneliness 
last shadow 
last sadness 

'Just as the form of the chorale has a tendency towards the impersonal, I have tried to be unspectacular in the word lists, too, and to put it on the threshold of abstraction and figuration. It gives the piece a kind of intensity and sensuality that can be created with a few tones and subtle connections.'

Jürg Frey: Out Of Chorales (2018)

Pip is a duo playing improvised and composed pieces of music, consisting of Torstein Lavik Larsen on trumpet and Fredrik Rasten on guitar. 
Long lasting, blending sounds with a basis in chord structures and harmony is an ever returning element in their music. 
Pip's music also emphasizes small variations in tonal colour, often applying just intonation, extended playing techniques and repeating musical patterns.
Sometimes they include electronic sounds, without leaving behind the core sound of guitar and trumpet as a point of departure.

The duo has existed since 2006, and since then explored many different musical approaches. 
A recuring theme of their exploration has been expansions of the duo instrumentarium, including 
electronics, multiple guitars and different electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments.

Pip released their first official release on the Portuguese label Creative Sources in 2016,
and they have toured in countries as Germany, Czech Republic, England and the Scandinavian countries.

The duo has also worked with artists from other disciplines. They collaborated with choreographer and contemporary dancer Marie Bergby Handeland on the piece Lyden av besluttsomhet, jeg tåler den ikke, which were premiered at the CODA festival in Oslo in 2013, and they have also worked together and performed with the Copenhagen-based live visuals duo of Freya Sif Hestnes and My Lambertsen, called Manuals.

Torstein and Fredrik also play together in the band Oker, with drummer Jan Martin Gismervik and bass player Adrian Fiskum Myhr, and in the quartet Volumes with Magda Mayas on prepared piano and Isak Hedtjärn on clarinet.

Release date: 27. September 2019

Pip: Possible Worlds (excerpt)

An excerpt of the live performance of Lines Transpire and Blur at UCR Arts - 12/15/2018

Pluto Bell - Electric Guitar
Andrew Young - Electric Guitar 
Eric Heep - Live Electronics

Lines Transpire and Blur, Live @ UCR Arts - Excerpt

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