30. POING / NORWEGIAN WIND ENSEMBLE
Friday 28 November
ST PAUL'S HALL 6PM,
Tickets £12 (£10 concession)
Eivind Buene Into The Void WORLD PREMIERE POING:
Frode Haltli accordion
Rolk-Erik Nystrøm saxophone
Håkon Thelin double bass
Norwegian Wind Ensemble
Christian Eggen conductor
Samuel Rohrer drums
The Norwegian Wind Ensemble commissioned Norwegian composer Eivind Buene to write a piece that would focus on improvisation as a formal element within a larger through-composed framework. In other words, a work where the lines between improvisational elements and fixed elements are blurred, in order to achieve a truly realtime music for a large ensemble.
Eivind responded by inviting POING into the mix, and the result is a double concerto for the Norwegian Wind Ensemble and POING. Fine Swiss improviser and percussionist Samuel Rohrer was invited as well, and accepted.
If this piece succeeds, you will hear about one hour of continuous music that explores the gravity and anti-gravity of improvisation as a formal element.
Imagine, if you will, a black musical hole that expands and contracts randomly by the strict laws of Buene's physics.
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