the members of my band is the people I am working with,depending on what the forthcoming project will be - mainly members of Vesterbro Composers Group KOMVEST (check the site with the english text version and tons of music!) and a bunch of talented and dedicated singes from various choirs in copenhagen
Been working with organ players, string players and solo singers, orchestras and percussionists - and poets
Influences
heart and brain:
my musical influence is all music that reaches my heart and my body - the brain is good for understanding, what hits you afterwards ...
sound and structure:
so writing score music is not mainly about finding a sound, but recognizing and forming a structure - the sound will be there, when you find it. Yet I would say, that before structure, there is a "sound image", a sounding vision. Even before that, if we are talking about vocal music, is the reading and feeling the words creating this sound vision.
The creative process is an allmost divine experience - you have the opportunity and privilege to create out of nowhere - you are God for a moment, you have borrowed the control room, and you must return it in good shape when the time comes. Meanwhile let's have some serious fun !
vocal:
my influence is the best vocal music ever written, in a time when the human voice was the ideal instrument and therefore well known and well treated by the composers.
Sounds Like
or does it ?
not really,
but I am thankful to and much aware of:
J.S. Bach,
Egberto Gismonti,
Josquin Desprez,
Astor Piazzola,
Johannes Brahms,
Jan Johansson,
Radiohead,
Orlando Gibbons,
Martin Hall,
William Byrd,
Keith Jarrett,
Orlando di Lasso,
Arvo Pärt,
Vagn Holmboe,
Elvis Costello,
Alfred Schnittke,
Chris Isaac,
Max Hillman,
Perotin,
Leonard Cohen,
Johannes Ockeghem,
Penguin Cafe Orchestra,
Tuomi - Daerr,
Gustav Mahler,
Keith Jarrett,
Alan Stivell,
Dan Olof Steenlund,
Steve Reich,
Heinrich Isaac,
Thomas Tallis,
Bobby McFerrin,
John Dowland,
Per Nørgård,
Erik Satie,
Hildegard von Bingen,
Bob Dylan,
Olivier Messiaen,
Peter Gabriel,
Glenn Gould,
Christian Hildebrandt
.. and a whole bunch of musical ancestors and contemporaries - not all mentioned, noone forgotten
also sounds like:
- a very slow dance
- a kaleidoscope
- the longing for ..
- an owls wing
The music you are hearing is part of a larger project going on for years. It involves 100's of people and a lot of spirit. This can be experienced in full complexity and simplicity - visually and though sound with:
one man band:
- trained as violinist, musicologist and conductor
- active member of choirs in Cph for 20 years
- leader of choirs and ensembles
- arranger and composer of bandmusic, musical, afromusic and vocaljazz-rock 1985-1995
- composer of vocal and instrumental music since 1987
- member of Vesterbro Composers Group KOMVEST since 1999
Hi and thanks for the friendship! Here’s a video from our most recent tour, in March-April. In an attempt to merge traditions of improvisation in Vietnamese and contemporary Western culture, this is a performance of Tu Dai Oán, a traditional Vietnamese song. In this performance with Thanh Thuy (playing the dan tranh), Stefan Östersjö (playing 10-string guitar) and Henrik Frisk (laptop), this traditional tune is overlapped with free improvisation with electronics. The performance is from a Scandinavian tour in spring 2009 with The Six Tones, a Swedish/Vietnamese project merging traditional and experimental music. The video was recorded at Atalante in Gothenburg by Niklas Rydén.
hay, nice to hear from you. Wait until you hear the songs now! they have completely come alive. Half way through the album now. hope you are well morton. take care. anne x
Just dropping by to say hi. I am on tour at the moment and in a meditative mood I put on some of your music, it really moved me. Hopefully I will catch up with you soon
Hi and thanks for the friendship! We go back in the studio and do the final sessions in our deconstruction of John Dowland’s galliards in December. Material from the September sessions up on the site right now. The Black Bile Galliards/Stefan Östersjö and Natasha Barrett
12 splinternye sange, en stribe prominente gæstemusikere (heriblandt Randi Laubek, musikere fra Didium and the Black Bonnie Picture, Kå og 180 Grader Virvar), mixet af blandt andre Carsten Heller - kan erhverves landet over fra mandag d. 6. oktober.
Førstesinglen 'Europa' kan høres på vores MySpace-side, og købes via iTunes.
All the best! from Animirror. 
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