Name: Benedictus by Mirjam Tally
Duration: 7 min 7 s
Description: Benedictus (2025) for mixed choir and 2 tam-tams. Text Latin mass. Performers: Swedish Radio Choir, c. Kaspars Putnins.

The third installation of Pandemic monologues - a series of improvisations for contrabass recorder "Paetzold" and loop pedal by Ida Höög.

Recorded in my living room April the 25th 2021

Photo: Désirée Burenstrand Schyman

bottenfrusenheten

The Pigeon Tunnel (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film)

Traitors

Betrayal

Benedictus (2025) for mixed choir and 2 tam-tams. Text Latin mass. Performers: Swedish Radio Choir, c. Kaspars Putnins.

Benedictus

work comments

Winner of the Swedish Music Publishers Association (SMFF) Award in the category "Contemporary Award of the Year” - chamber musc/smaller ensemble 2017.

Over a period of years 2013-14, I wrote music for the Gesamtkunstwerk Saiyah that was performed at the Norrland Opera during the MADE Festival. The work focused on the neurological condition of synaesthesia in which an interconnection in the brain between the two senses. Concretely, it means that a person hears music also see it, for example in the form of different colors.

In there was a section for guitar and ensemble I decided to do a concert piece in five movements as a "wordless song cycle without words" and described as follows:

1. Air - peace and quiet with small pedal tones from the glasses and guitar shapes an aria-like line while the ensemble comments.

2. Spiral I - this is music in motion a perpetual motion where it leads to a break with a djembe in a "virtual jam session" which literally breaks down. It ends with a cadence of the guitar solo with glass.

3. Light - which takes up the first movement material but the character here is more meditative and minimalist with oozing bright sounds in and out like the colors and shadows of an abstract painting.

4. Spiral II - a continuation of the second movement soon purring material, but this is the term the more aggressive moving toward a more improvisational cadenza where everyone in the ensemble are involved in events like a traffic accident and disappears into thin air.

 5. Epilogue - from this comes a wide "free pulsative" epilogue where the guitarist puts down the guitar on his knees and trembling with a glass on the strings and gradually hanging ensemble that particular sound. Everything fades gradually down dynamically to finally disappear completely.

Live recording from the world premiere
AIR - SPIRAL - LIGHT 
for guitar solo, small ensemble and electronics WORLD PREMIERE!
Apelrydsladan, Båstad
July 1st
Jacob Kellermann, guitar
Camilla Hoitenga; flutes
Karin Dornbusch; clarinets
Magdalena Meitzner, percussion
David Huang, piano
Trio Lendvai:
Nadia Wijzenbeek, violin
Ylvali Zilliacus, viola
Marie Macleod, cello
Christian Karlsen, conductor
Arne Bock, electronics

Air–Spiral–Light Live

Live at Vårdklockans Kyrka, Skaiv concert series. Performed on metal springs, effect pedals, MW radio, and computer.

Innocence (Live at Skaiv 2016)

featured in the compilation Made of Wood 3, lossless and free download from from label Game of Life:

https://gameoflife.bandcamp.com/album/made-of-wood-iii

Cocotar (as in VA - Made of Wood III)

Forslund/Sigurðsson/Åhlén - The Thoughts

Water was flowing through flooded forest. Cranes were calling in nearby bog. Birdsong in forest: Chaffinch, Blue Tit, Eurasian Treecreeper, Robin. 14. April, Lihula.

Birds in flooded forest

Duo Anna & Eva Lindal
Live in Västerås, Sweden
Västerås konserthus, 6th of May 2017

Abrovink II. (2017)

1921 is David Åhlén (vocals) and Andreas Eklöf (synthesizers and electronics)

In their collaboration, 1921, both of their musical expressions have reached full force while being united in an almost unimaginable manner. David’s timeless melodies and angelic falsetto voice, are interlaced with Andreas Eklöf’s electronic-organic soundscape, full of harmony and counterpoint. Together, they create an electronic chamber music of sorts. 

Guest musicians: Marie Bergling - vocals and Arvid Svenungsson - organ.
Produced by Andreas Runeson. Cover art by Tomas Einarsson.

In my veins is the first singel from the coming  album: In my veins (release November 24th)

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnujIzxE8Mk

In my veins

1921 - In my veins (Single)

Mirjam Tally's music profile (chamber, choir and orchestra works). For more music (film+electroacoustic works), visit also: https://soundcloud.com/mirjamtallymusic
For my folk/electronic duo, visit: https://soundcloud.com/unejogi

Benedictus

Mirjam Tally

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