aria for bassoon solo. Performed by Valdemar Sersam

ARIA

In Beyond Lust, a character was created drawing upon features, thoughts and examples given in the 1920 essay "Jenseits des Lustprinzips" by Sigmund Freud. The character appears before us, as an analysand, wrapped up in an obscure trauma, narrated in different ways, through various experiences, placed on a labyrinthine path that runs through his memories. Initially, instruments and voice are both talking, the speech is resonated and mirrored in the string texture. Though during the course of the narration, the music transforms itself, in a similar way to the text, into new organisms, shadow objects that creates, together with the projected images, the mental space in which the narration restlessly crawls forward.

Schallfeld Ensemble (Myriam Garcia Fidalgo - cello, Francesca Piccioni - viola , Margarethe Maierhofer Lischka - 5 -stringed double bass ,and Davide Gagliardi - Electronics)

Video art by Anna-Karin Rasmusson
Narrator, text, and music - Jonatan Sersam

Commissioned by NOW! Oper der Gegenwart
Artistic director: Yulan Yu

Beyond Lust

The third piece in the "Sånger" series. A line is explored, blown up and put back together. 

Trumpet - Ture Herrgårdh
Piano - Jonatan Sersam

25th of april 2022 at Metronomen in CPH

Sånger 3 - for trumpet and piano (2018)

Blue Notes

Text from the poem "Presencia de Sombra" by Alejandra Pizarnik. Used with kind permission by Ana Becciù on behalf of Myriam Pizarnik. 

Performed by ICTUS ensemble. Eva Reiter - viola da gamba, Ann-Claire Baconnais - soprano, Marie Ythier - cello. Conducted by Tom De Cock. Performed during the Festival de Royaumont in september 2022. 





Presencia de Sombra

two chants run parallel, they meet and trigger different behaviors. Finally, the chants form a sort of arpeggiator, that reminds us that "tout mélodie est une arpège" like Rameau said back in the 1700's. 
Bass flute: João Liberato 
Viola: Sebastian Flögel

Sånger

Vindöga is written for four bassoons, one contrabassoon, marimba, piano and double bass. It was one of the finalist pieces in the ALEA III composition competition in Boston in november 2016.

Vindöga

Falling, then climbing again, so high that you don't hear it no more. Floating on air, then mirrored.  Then it falls again.

som en hemlighet

Notturno 2.0

A piece for two sopranos, piano, electric guitar, sampler, flute and double bass. Lyrics by Inger Christensen, from her collection "DET".

Jonatan Sersam - Scenen.handlingen. Text Av I. Christenssen

"Pareidolia" - for solo viola d'amore. Performed by Marco Fusi in Malmö 2018.

Pareidolia

Phono Junction explores different ways of building communities. One part is dedicated to a behavior where many different actors create a single line or surface, with others creating a resonating space. Another part is the opposite, where many individual voices are leading different processes, although the interpretation of this behavior could also be perceived as in the first case. These processes lead finally to a sort of “mass”, with less clearly perceivable individualities and characteristics, and with a slight constant de-synchronization of the rhythm – melodic relationship. This is the third community behavior and is heard at the very end of the piece.

phono junction

Eva Zöllner - accordion
Heather Roche - clarinet in Bb

passing lodestones

Ensemble FontanaMix diretta da maestro Francesco LaLicata

a questa voce

Composer, pianist, blues harmonica blower, occasional conductor. Member of Ars Nova Ensemble Malmö and Hertzbreakerz. Composition studies in Malmö, Bologna, Graz. Stage works, orchestral, chamber pieces, solos. 

Jonatan Sersam

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