Pas de Deux
Duo show with Abbi Patrix and myself. A collection of stories from different times and different parts of the world, all around the theme of the first step: who takes it, and how?
A wide variety of
percussion instruments allows each story to exist in its own musical
universe,
and the music is inspired by traditional music as well as contemporary
music of
different genres. Has been performed around France, Switzerland, in
Cheltenham Literature Festival and Edinbourgh Fringe Festival.
L’Os a Vœux
Violinist Jean
François Vrod, storytellers Marien Tillet, Delphin Noly, Abbi
Patrix and I have
worked with text from the Wishing Bone Cycle by Howard Norman.
This has resulted in a 40
minute show, where text and music work together in an almost seamless
way.
Link to Compagnie du Cercle
Inger Christensen was
a poet, novelist and essayist, and is considered the foremost Danish
poetic
experimentalist of her generation.
Danish singer Birgitte Lyrgaard introduced me to Christensen’s world, and we both find her texts utterly inspiring. The rhythm of the text; the sound of the words; the structure of the poems; this poetry is music, quiet music waiting to be played and sung!
We are currently
working on a concert-project based on Christensen’s texts. We approach
the
texts in different ways, some appear in the form of composed pieces,
others
serve as a base for improvisations, still others are spoken in a
musical
landscape and some have simply become songs.
Has been performed in Denmark, Germany and France.
Project Homepage
Spectacle musical pour les enfants et leurs
parents.
Les trois chanteuses-musiciennes plongent au
fond de la mer, volent aux confins de la Lune pour atterrir et regarder
à la
loupe une simple feuille, un ver de terre...
Elles
inventent des histoires, des jeux vocaux, des chansons, des ambiances
sonores
étranges et surprenantes pour petits et grands à partir
de textes surréalistes
et poétiques de Robert Desnos, Raymond Queneau, Jean Tardieu,
Boris Vian et de
Michèle Buirette.
Avec Michèle Buirette, Elsa Birgé et Linda Edsjö
plus d'infos
Singer Randi Pontoppidan,
Flutist Jennifer Dill and percussionist Linda
Edsjö present a concert created around the work of Finnish
composer Kaija
Saariaho. The core of this concert are the Saariahos’ pieces Lonh, for voice, Noa Noa, for flute
and Six Japanese Gardens, for percussion.
All three pieces include
electronics.
Around these, the three musicians create contrasting, improvised
pieces, reflecting the compositions as well as the general
circumstances of the
space.
”We have worked with this mix of composed and
improvised music on
several occasions, and find that it creates a very special quality of
presence.
The “here and now” of the impro-parts influences the performance of the
composed pieces, the deep concentration and precision of the
solo-pieces helps
to structure the improvisations.
From our experience, the audience is involved
in what we are doing from the first sound to the last, and leaves the
concert
hall with the feeling of having lived something unique.”
More info at the Project hompage.
Is an ensemble working
with flute, percussion and electronics, formed by Jennifer Dill and
myself. We
collaborate with composers, exploring the possibilities of the
instruments with
modern techniques to find links between classical tradition and the
present.
Our repertoire consists of music with live-electronics, music using a
more
classical tape technique and music that is wholly acoustic.
We also work with
different improvisation techniques, and in this manner have created
music for
two choreographed pieces by Eva Lundström: Regn-Regnbåge
–Regn in collaboration with Colombian
composer Eblis
Alvarez and Blå, närmast vatten
in collaboration with Swedish violinist Jonas Lindgren (Fleshquartet).
