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Water Walk (demo)

Weather forecast, 2016. Work for voice, double bass and electronics.

Noget om vejret

For three melodicas and trio (alto sax, double bass, piano)

Chang'e-4

Water, fire, earth, wind, birthday

Featuring:
00:00 Søren - Uttenthal
02:00 Rune - Den Fjerde Væg
06:28 Eigil - BILLy
08:32 Troels, Marie, Mikkel - Collider
10:57 Jonatan - The Love Coffin
13:14 Kasper - Gulddværg
15:16 Sebastian - SATNAV
18:54 Mikkel, Susanne - Internazionale, Yuri

Artwork: Sebastian Zieler

Tredive Rotationer Rundt Om Solen

"Testent" for Extended Orchestra (2009-2011)  Bil Smith Composer

Extended Orchestra refers to an expansion of instrumentation beyond the traditional orchestral modicum. In this piece it involves adding a prescribed number (in this performance 18) of non-traditional orchestral instruments. While the score for the instruments is carefully notated, the instrument selection is left up to the key stakeholders of the performance.

"Form and referent coincide, and response rarely goes beyond the initial frisson. In creating a score of this magnitude, it is not the immediate, visceral reaction but the critical reception, the work’s potential to generate independent thinking, that matters.

By going back to timeless archetypes, he bypasses the slag heap of historicism and yokes the orchestra to a heavy sense of time, far from the everyday and the customary. 

It does so, however, without falling prey to the transcendental consolations of the sublime that serve to empower the viewer at the expense of introspection. This music is resolutely opaque...

...Smith is not shy about seeing himself as something of a traditionalist, as his strategic deployment of outmoded forms makes plain—and yet the dynamic quality of his relationship with history is clearest when considered in terms of his unconventional choices in instrumentation."

- Alexander Wong, "The Japan Times"

" In the end it’s not so interesting to have an answer which is interesting to hear. You take something which might be from very near to you, very personal, very private, and you transform it into something else, you transform it into a fiction."

  -  Bil Smith Composer at Laboratorie New Music

"Testent" for Extended Orchestra (2009-2011)  Bil Smith Composer

Recording from the world premiere of VÍDDIR, February 19th 2020 in Grundtvigs Kirke, Copenhagen.

Performers:
Bass Flute 1: Björg Brjánsdóttir
Bass Flute 2: Marie Sønderskov
Bass Flute 3: Flavia Huarachi
Bass Flute 4: Sofia Kayaya
Bass Flute 5: Beata Preisaite
Alto Flute 1: Steinunn Vala Pálsdóttir
Alto Flute 2: Marina Cyrino
Flute: María Ösp Ómarsdóttir
Piccolo: Christine Elizabeth Clancy
NEKO3: Fei Nie, Kalle Hakosalo, Lorenzo Colombo
Bass Guitar: Skúli Sverrisson
Double Bass: Bára Gísladóttir

Recording: Alma Hede and Yangyadi (Chloe) Deng
Mix: Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir

Photo: Therese Precht Vadum

VÍDDIR

performed by ensemble proton bern and Gregor Mayrhofer as part of protonwerk no. 9 at Dampfzentrale Bern, March 2nd, 2020

Closed Contact (2002) by Jenny Saville

gasser (2020)

Gelignite

Performed by the Ligeti Quartet at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
8 September 2020

Kiklismos

Transcendental Progression

Played by Ensemble Transduct
composed by Jens Peter Møller
(2020)

Ensemble Transduct:
Oriol Pares - Baritone Saxophone
Christian Tscherning Larsen - trombone
Kalle Hakosalo - Percussion & keyboard (yamaha PS-180)
Oda Mathilde Dyrnes - amplified cello

Recorded live @ Literaturhaus in Copenhagen on February 24th 2020

Commisioned by Christian Tscherning Larsen & Ensemble Transduct

Water Walk (demo)

Connor McLean

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