Alpha Waves

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Musik för soloflöjt och elektronik. Flera av styckena är komponerade för Anna Svensdotter.

”The extended flute
As wrong as it is to state that humankind by nature has one temperament, one attitude, or acts in one specific manner in all situations, it is just as difficult to answer the question: how does a flute sound? Anna Svensdotter is something as exclusive as a Swedish flutist who has specialised in newly written music. Always inquisitive about the way the flute and electronics give and take from one another in a musical collaboration, she has a place all of her own among performers of the new flute repertoire.
In the ensembles L’Orchestre Disparu, (flute, voice, live electronics, live video), Trio Ek/Janson/Svensdotter (voice, double bass, flute), and the duo SkarvFX, (flute/electronics and double bass/electronics), Anna delves into new modes of expression with her fellow musicians. On this CD, where most of the works were written directly for her, she plays in an ensemble all by herself. All the registers of the flute conjure the weight of destiny and the twitter of play all at once. Sometimes the extraneous sounds are the main point and one’s perspective is turned inside out, sometimes the material changes slowly, like when a music box successively trips out of phase.
A sort of musical democracy is created, where all the sound impulses, no matter their origin, form a whole, and the breathing becomes the listener’s own.
So – how does a flute sound?”
Paula af Malmborg Ward, composer (translation: George Kentros)

Contents:
Mirjam Tally: LAST YEAR’S SUN STILL GLITTERS IN THE DROP OF WATER
Malin Bång: ALPHA WAVES
Daniel M Karlsson: THREE ARRAYS OF WEIGHTED DISTRIBUTIONS
Paul Bothén: GRAVITY
Benjamin Staern: YELLOW SKIES
Ida Lundén: HLP
Fredrik Österling: NESCIO
Paul Bothén: MIRAGE
Tony Blomdahl: RTS

”Svensdotter rör sig lätt och ledigt i samspelet med elektroniken. Trots att inget stycke på skivan direkt får mig att göra kullerbyttor bildar de tillsammans en konstnärligt övertygande helhet som är större än delarna var och en för sig.