2017-01-01

Machinic Propositions

 for video and laptop More...

Private recording

2014-01-01

Att konceptualisera glömskan

 for Saxophone and voice More...

Private recording

2014-01-01

Drinking

 for dan tranh, voice and electronics More...

Private recording

2013-01-01

Elle a dansé - Il se tourna

 for Video and electronics, eight channel diffusion More...

Recorded and available on cd

2014-01-01

Opposite of Black Noise

 for Laptop, eight speakers More...

Recorded and available on cd

2007-01-01

Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions

 for Viking Eggeling's "Symphonie Diagonale", 10-stringed guitar and electronics. More...

Recorded and available on cd

2011-01-01

Månens Gråa Ögon

 for t.sax, s.sax, git1, git2, el.piano, organ, bass, drum1, drum2, drum3 More...

Recorded and available on cd

2011-01-01

The Transparent I

 for sheng, dan bau, dan tranh, accordion, 10-stringed guit., vla, d.bass, More...

Private recording

2006-01-01

Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions

 for 10-stringed guitar and computer More...

Recorded and available on cd

2010-01-01

The Mystic Writing Pad I

 for sax (midi) or windcontroller, vc (electric), el. guitar, keyboard, MIDI-marimba, crotales and gongs More...

Private recording

2009-01-01

Continuous Breach

 for cl, sop sax, trb, pi, laptop, dr, vn, vc, bass First performance: Copenhagen, July 12, 2009

Download score:

Continuous Breach [1,5MB]

Recordings:

2009-07-14

English program note

The word breach in the ambiguous title refers to a multiplicity of ideas regarding man and technology. It refers to the breach, the non-continuity, between 0 and 1 within the binary system of our machines (specifically in the machine used to perform the computer part in this piece) as well as the non-continuity between man and machine, or rather, between musician and laptop. This relation is dual by nature: There is a breach between the laptop and its operator as well as between the two as a unit and the rest of the ensemble. This is true audibly because the sounds produced electronically are destined to differ in quality from those produced acoustically. But it is also true conceptually as the relation between the laptop musician and the computer, the interface through which he interacts with the binary universe of the computer, is to say the least, crude in comparison to that of the violinist or the saxophonist of the ensemble. This breach, or discontinuity, has (almost) always been of great interest to me.

The first part of the title, continuous, is both the antinode of the breach and its source of inspiration. Anything wishes to be continuous does so because somewhere there is a breach to be overcome. But here it also refers (probably linguistically incorrect though) to how the breach, in its wanting to be a discontinuity, becomes a continuous breach. The breach, as defined as a discontinuity in space, is a conceptual continuity in time. These are thoughts that emerged during my writing of the piece and they were part of my thinking before I started working. My (obsessive) fascination for the impossibility to truthfully represent a continuous process with a binary machine is a source of inspiration in this music as well as in most of my work.

Swedish program note

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Private recording

2006-01-01

The Six Tones

 for Dan Tranh, Dan Bau, banjo, e-bow, 10-stringed guitar and electronics More...

Private recording

2003-01-01

Drive

 for electric viola grande or viola and computer More...

Recorded and available on cd

2001-01-01

Improvisations for saxophone and computer

 for saxophone and computer More...

Private recording

2003-01-01

Perspicio

 for saxophone quartet and computer More...

Private recording

2001-01-01

Music for houses / Housebroken

 for four channel tape More...

Private recording

1996-01-01

Tetrachordal Variations

 for String orchestra and improvising soloist(s) More...

Private recording

2001-01-01

Improvisation VII

 for improvising soloist and computer More...

Private recording

2003-01-01

etherSound

 for computer and cellular phone (and improvising artists) More...

Private recording

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