STRING QUARTETS:
 
No. 1: Kontur des Fühlens (2004)
Performed by Cikada string quartet

No. 2: Three Colors (2007):
1. White symmetry - 2. Black Glissando - 3. Orange noise
Performed by Messerkvartetten

No. 3: Sich hingab (2010)
Performed by Messerkvartetten

No. 5: Obscure Transparence (2013)
Performed by Jack quartet

String quartets & live electronics (Max)

String quartet no. 3 with live electronics (Max). Live recording, performed September 12, 2010, by Messerkvartetten.

Sich Hingab (2010)

String quartet no. 5 with live electronics (Max). Subtitle: Mosaico 2. Commissioned by, dedicated to and performed by Jack Quartet (NYC) at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, November 7, 2013.
About the beautiful blur that can be observed for example in the nature when ground mist maker or when seeing the misty outline of a city or a seaport in the distance. Something that is indistinct to the sight or mind. The not easily distinguished. The ambiguous.
Written with support from the Danish Arts Foundation.

Obscure Transparence (2013)

String quartet no. 1 with live electronics (Max). World premiere performed by Cikada at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, concert hall; May 2, 2004. Recorded in Bach recording, Copenhagen 2005. Dedicated to CIKADA string quartet and my sons Valdemar and Villads.
Schönberg said: "The music shall not decorate, but be true". Postmodernism has thrown an ice-splinter in the demand for truth. Hereafter it will be an exorbitant postulate, that only one kind of music is contemporary. The music shall not be true, but create a change. It shall make a difference listening a work.
In Kontur des Fühlens is the slow time, the space in extreme registers, contrary directed speeds, static motion despite of fast figurations, organic process-oriented form despite of well defined proportioned sections, everything penetrated by the fall.
Written with support from the Danish Arts Foundation.

Kontur des Fühlens (2004)

Three Colors (2007, 11 min) - for string quartet & computer
1st movement: White Symmetry
Inspired by the color theories of Wassily Kandinsky.
The white is as yellow an extrovert color, springing towards you.
Performed by Messerkvartetten.
Written with support from the Danish Arts Foundation.

White Symmetry (1st movement of Three Colors)

Three Colors (2007, 11 min) - for string quartet & computer
2nd movement: Black Glissando
Inspired by the color theories of Wassily Kandinsky.
The black is as blue an introvert color, sinking down inside yourself.
Performed by Messerkvartetten.
Written with support from the Danish Arts Foundation.

Black Glissando (2nd movement of Three Colors)

Three Colors (2007, 11 min) - for string quartet & computer
1st movement: White Symmetry
Inspired by the color theories of Wassily Kandinsky.
Orange is a mixture of yellow and red, an active color, moving passion in a spot.
Performed by Messerkvartetten.
Written with support from the Danish Arts Foundation.

Orange Noise (3rd movement of Three Colors)

Composer Ejnar Kanding (b. 1965) is internationally known for his unique colourful sound, where the electronic and acoustic are united in complex textures, physical energy and delicate simplicity. To him, music should not embellish, but be a realm of fantasy. A journey into the ambiguous – a hall of mirrors. Kanding originally got his degree in composition and musical theory at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen in 1993, followed by studies at IRCAM in Paris and with Professor Lev Koblyakov in Jerusalem in 1994 and 95, but has since his debut concert from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1996 specialized himself in composing music for computer and instruments. This has led to an extensive use of the software MaxMSP in the development of his works and as an instrument in live performances. Despite this obsession his focus is never the electronic experiment, but always the musical expression, form and phrase.
The way Kanding uses the digital mixing console and MaxMSP as an instrument is pioneering the new assignment as a musician which is known as live electronics or sound direction. His virtuosity in this field has led to numerous performances of own works or others of both improvised and written music with various groups, for example, works by Saariaho , Nono and Stockhausen; and ensembles as Cikada (NO), Ars Nova (SE), Jack Quartet (NYC), Transit ensemble (NYC) and Adpater (DE).