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Jesper Nordin
Aftermath
Jesper Nordin
The music of Jesper Nordin (b. 1971), with its powerful emotional impact and traces of traditional Swedish folk music, rock music and improvised music, is broadcast and performed throughout the world by major soloists, ensembles and symphony orchestras, for instance BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, both the Finnish and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain and Ensemble l'Itineraire. He has received commissions from ensembles and institutions around the world. In 2006 the Swedish Radio released the internationally acclaimed portrait CD "Residues" that include some of his major orchestral works. As a performer he plays laptop in Trio Trespassing who released their successful debut CD ”Transitory Frames” in 2009. His music is published by Edition Peters.
Aftermath (2010)
For saxophone quartet and live electronics
Jesper Nordin has once described his music as being "like if you play a traditional Swedish folk melody in a huge cathedral, and then you take away the melody". It is the resonances, residues and remnants of things that is his focus. In "Aftermath" for saxophone quartet and live electronics, it is not just soft melodies that are the base but also large eruptions from the powerful sounds of four saxophones. To get resonances from the saxophones the musicians have been playing their instruments into a grand piano which was recorded and used as a base for the electronic sounds. To add a different quality to the sound drum sticks were put on the strings and left to rattle, in that way they produced a kind of "acoustical distortion".
A lot of the music was composed with a new technique of drawing music instead of writing it that Nordin has developed, he says: "I programmed an environment where I can control the harmonic and rhythmic framework and then, using a pen on the computer-connected drawing board, I can play freely within this framwork. This is the utlimate tool for me who has always searched for controlled freedom using improvisation in different ways. Here I can improvise and still have an exact control over harmony, microtonality and direction."
"Aftermath" is commissioned byt the Swedish Radio for the Quasar saxophone quartet and published by Edition Peters, Frankfurt.
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