Name: Mads Emil Dreyer: Doldrums, inertia by Edition·S music¬sound¬art
Duration: 26 min 40 s
Description: Mads Emil Dreyer's Dodrums, inertia (2025) premiered by JACK Quartet, September 24 at Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin

Pernille Louise Sejlund: Moby Dick

Animals Of Your Pasture 
by Bara Gisladottir

Riot Ensemble, Aaron Holloway-Nahum, conductor

Live concert at 20 November, 2021 at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, St. Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, UK. Performed by Riot Ensemble. Performers: Horia Dumitrache, clarinet; Richard Craig, flute; Philip Haworth, oboe; Amy Green, baritone/tenor saxophone; Sam Wilson, percussion; Goska Isphording, harpsichord; Jack Ross, guitar; Marianne Schofield, double Bass; Aaron Holloway-Nahum, conductor.

Animals Of Your Pasture

Mads Emil Dreyer's Dodrums, inertia (2025) premiered by JACK Quartet, September 24 at Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin

Mads Emil Dreyer: Doldrums, inertia

Elísabet Einarsdóttir, soprano
Elektra Ensemble

Recording from the premiere of the piece, on the opening concert of Dark Music Days 2016 in Kaldalón, Harpa Concert Hall, where music by members of Errata Collective was performed.

I - mantra / mantra
II - millispil / interlude
III - þitt eigið ævintýri / your own adventure
IV - hali / coda​

About the piece:
The piece, which is in four interwoven movements, is a research on the concept 'control'. Each movement tackles the concept from a different perspective. Most of the piece is composed of small fragments of musical material that the group navigates through based on a loose system, in a previously undetermined way. The piece is therefore never exactly the same. In two movements that make up the biggest part of the piece (mov. I and III) the soprano controls which way to navigate through the piece, while the ensemble has to pay attention to where she's going in order to follow her. The lyrics of the piece mostly refer to things happening in the actual piece, making the piece a kind of a self-contained ritual.

The idea for this open structure came from the book series "Choose Your own Adventure", which I read when I was a kid, but in these books the reader could control the actions of the protagonist by choosing between different pages to continue reading on.

Stjórn (2016)

Duckcall, carhorns, cans, boxes, buckets and various toyinstruments - all played by Thomas Sandberg

Duckie Dance

'Country' for cello and chamber orchestra (2019) by Niels Rønsholdt performed by soloist Jakob Kullberg and OMN at NOSPR Katowice conducted by Szymon Bywalec. All rights reserved.

Part One:

1. We Will Dissolve
2. Trees
3. Island (based on traditional)
4. We Don't Ride The Same Horse
5. Train To Glory
6. Someday We'll Meet Again
7. Man of Honor (based on traditional)
8. My Guitar
9. Your Land, Your Love

Niels Rønsholdt: Country, Part One (live)

Jinx - Double Concerto for 2 accordions & orchestra
1. Furious Trails
2. Rustles Reflecting
3. Echoes
4. Jinx / Cadenza
5. Acid Orbits

Premiere performance / Copenhagen 9 november 2012 
The Royal Danish Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Michael Schønwandt
accordionduo TOEAC: Renée Bekkers & Pieternel Berkers

Jinx - Double Concerto for 2 accordions & orchestra

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Mads Emil Dreyer: Doldrums, inertia

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