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Colliding Bubbles (surface tension and release) - 28:50
Composed by Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard, 2022

Quatuor Bozzini:
Alissa Cheung, violin I + harmonica (G) Clemens Merkel, violin II + harmonica (G) Stéphanie Bozzini, viola + harmonica (C) Isabelle Bozzini, cello + harmonica (C)

Colliding Bubbles (surface tension and release) is a composition for string quartet and harmonica quartet, meaning that Quatuor Bozzini is playing string instruments while playing harmonicas.

"The title refers to different kinds of bubbly matter which are set to collide within the composition, leading to different ruptures and possible release of surface tension.
The collision of bubbles unfolds partly in relation to sound, where small fluctuations appear in the encounters between harmonicas and string instruments and partly in relation to a more performative or conceptual bubble where instruments representing different systems, or bubbles, will collide; the very celebrated instruments within the classical string quartet and the perhaps more prosaic harmonica."  - Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard

This release was made possible with generous support from Augustinus Fonden, The Danish Conductors Association & The Danish Composers’ Society.

This release has been supported by Conseil des arts lettres du Québec

Cover photos by Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard (Bubble studies, 2023)

Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard & Quatuor Bozzini: Colliding Bubbles CD release: 3.1.24

Excerpt from Egis Ce Asc 

Egis Ce Asc is a solo piece for pipe organ and a calibration of the human ear. Across 6 movements the listener is presented to a series of sonic plateaus which ascend from the low range to the high range frequency spectrum, and in many ways Egis Ce Asc is thought out to be an abstract sine sweep for the human ear.
The title refeers to the major third intervals between E - G#, C -E and Ab - C which in Danish are pronounced Egis Ce Asc.
Løkkegaard holds a special interest in the major third due to the keyposition of this interval within Western music. The major third is thought to be a "natural"  interval but is in fact artificially high pitched within the tempered tuning of Western music, and by playing only major thirds - the ear starts to listen in and capture the low differential tones the upper partials and so on - tones which are all interfering with eachother.
A major third is not just a major third - it´s a micro cosmos - and the normativity ot the major third is exposed.

Egis Ce Asc is released as a limited edtion triple vinylbox (released in a edition of 100) containing a 12" + 10" + 7" record - each representing a frequency spectrum.
Due to the long wavelenght of the lower frequencies it takes up more space when cut to vinyl and therefore the 12" presents the low range frequencies, the 10"  - mid range frequencies and the 7"  -  high range frequencies
The physics of sound becomes visible as Moiré patterns embedded within the vinyl record appear.

Egis Ce Asc will be released on september 3rd on Topos - an intermedial platform formed by Jacob Kirkegaard, Tobias Kirstein and myself.

12" vinyl - Low range

Egis 1 
ƒ̥=  81 & 102 Hz  
Duration: 20 minutes

Egis 2
ƒ̥=  162 & 204 Hz 
Duration: 20 minutes

10" vinyl - Mid range

Ce 1
ƒ̥= 258 & 324 Hz 
Duration: 10 minutes

Ce 2
ƒ̥= 516 & 648 Hz 
Duration: 10 minutes

7" vinyl - High range

Asc 1
ƒ̥= 816 & 1032 Hz 
Duration: 4 minutes

Asc 2
ƒ̥= 1632 & 2064 Hz 
Duration: 4 minutes

Recorded december 2017 in Brorsons Kirke, Copenhagen.

Egis 1 - ƒ̥=  81 & 102 Hz  (excerpt)

https://www.discogs.com/Jonas-Olesen-TEST/release/6877823

Shepard Tonal Paradox [Ascending + Descending]

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Egis 1 - ƒ̥= 81 & 102 Hz (excerpt)

Niels Lyhne Lokkegaard

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