Smordal - My Favorite Thing
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Label: Lawo Classics
Cat No: LWC1276
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 26th April 2024
Contents
Artists
Silje Aker Johnsen (soprano)Yumi Murakami (flute)
Kristine Tjogersen (clarinet)
Ane Marthe Sorlien Holen (percussion)
Pinquins
Ensemble neoN
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Conductors
Kai Grinde MyrannMagnus Loddgard
Works
Flock of MeMy Favorite Thing 1
My Favorite Thing 2
My Favorite Thing 3
less-sense
Artists
Silje Aker Johnsen (soprano)Yumi Murakami (flute)
Kristine Tjogersen (clarinet)
Ane Marthe Sorlien Holen (percussion)
Pinquins
Ensemble neoN
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Conductors
Kai Grinde MyrannMagnus Loddgard
About
Based on interviews with all participating performers, Smørdal has interpreted the performers' formative encounters with music from childhood. The works consist of direct quotations, abstracted reflections and free retellings.
Smørdal has long been concerned with mechanisms behind herd behaviour, reflex movements, self-standing patterns and spontaneous social dynamics. "Thoughts about such phenomena, and concretising and interpreting such phenomena as sound and flow, have been the springboard for much of my work over the past 10 years." On this release you can hear an early example of this, where an individual's short-term memory forms an entire swarm, Flock of Me played by Yumi Murakami.
The disc also contains another early work, less-sense. The piece was written for and performed by Silje Aker Johnsen, Kristine Tjøgersen and Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen. Through a text fragment by Augustine, the I-person tries to remove his former self, gradually by unraveling his own note.
Jan Martin Smørdal (b. 1978) is a composer and performer. He is also a member and co-founder of Ensemble neoN, an award-winning new music collective that initiates and implements projects internationally. Smørdal is an established composer with works for orchestra and chamber ensembles, in addition to installations, choral works and improvisations in various forms. He is co-recipient of a number of Spellemannprize, and in 2022 received Arne Nordheim's Composer's Prize.
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