The work \u201cUR\u201d for five instruments and live electronics by Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg is the chamber music counterpart to the powerful orchestral work \u201cKraft\u201d and combines the dense energy of Lindberg\u2019s early work \u2013 inspired by punk rock and spectralism \u2013 with precisely controlled electronic sound manipulation. Rhythms, chord sequences, and harmonic processes were generated using mathematical calculations and the programming language \u201cLeLisp.\u201d The title \u201cUR\u201d refers both to the ancient Sumerian city of Ur and to the prefix commonly used in German and Swedish to denote something extreme, primordial, or primitive. Furthermore, the word \u201cur\u201d means \u201cclock\u201d or \u201cstorm\u201d in Swedish.<\/p>\n
Drawing on Peter Maxwell Davies\u2019 \u201cEight Songs for a Mad King\u201d as an inspirational model for its compositional form, \u201cover the threshold; right foot\u201d by the Norwegian composer Tze Yeung Ho draws upon ancient Chinese poems about court ladies from various dynasties. Each text focuses on the relationship between a parrot and the person speaking to it, as owning a parrot is a symbol of courtly loneliness \u2013 since the bird would parrot back the thoughts directed at it.<\/p>\n
The music of \u201cEnigma\u201d by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir is inspired by the concept of \u201cin-between\u201d and juxtaposes flow and fragmentation. Pulsating stasis \u2013 the \u201cwhole,\u201d an expanding and contracting foundation \u2013 contrasts with fragmented elements \u2013 shadows of things that exist as part of the whole. Harmonies emerge and fade away or disintegrate in various ways, leaving traces of elements that project themselves through different textures and nuances and gradually take on a form of their own. Some return to the core, others remain separate. Throughout the piece, the perspective constantly shifts between the two \u2013 the foundation and the fragmented shadows \u2013 yet the focus always remains on their relationship \u2013 the \u201cin-between.\u201d<\/p>\n
A program that seeks to break through the boundaries of \u201cabsolute new music\u201d through musical-theatrical and electronic means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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