Pictures of fields without fences
2006 | string orchestra (8')
Pictures of fields without fences aims to strip down the music to the essential parameters, to peel off and remove until what is left is some kind of ‘skeleton music’. It offers a meditation on the inevitable transformation or obsolescence of things, in the manner of a photograph which over time becomes faded and bleached by the sun.
1st Prize-winning composition of the London Music Society 2017 International Composer’s Competition (UK). 1st Prize-winning composition of the 2017 Eleanor Stubey Recording Prize (CA). Selected for the Nordic Music Days 2019 in Bodø (NO). For the pas de deux in the Karl Alfred Schreiner ballet “Atlantis” 2019 at Gärtnerplatztheater, Munich (DE). Dedicated to Eva Gran.
Selected performances: Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal, CA), Église Notre-Dame-Des-Sept-Douleur (Verdun, CA), Casa Del Popolo (Montreal, CA), Lion d’Or (Montreal, CA), La Fonderie Darling (Montreal, CA), Sagebrush Theatre (Kamloops, CA), St Stephen’s Church (London, UK), Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (Munich, DE), Bodø Domkirke (Bodø, NO), NRK P2 (broadcast, NO), Bromma Kyrka (Stockholm, SE), Styrsö Kyrka (Göteborg, SE), Christinateatern (Kristinehamn, SE), Fornsalen (Visby, SE), SR P2 (broadcast, SE), Spira, (Jönköpig, SE).
Selected performers: London City Philharmonic; Olsi Quinami (UK), Ballett und Orchester des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz; Michael Brandstätter (DE), Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra; Kjetil Almenning (NO), Phoebus Chamber Orchestra; Andrew Crust (US), Kamloops Symphony Orchestra; Dina Gilbert (CA), Jönköpings Sinfonietta; Christian von Gehren (SE), Styrsö Kammarsolister with Stenhammar Quartet (SE), Ensemble Arkea; Dina Gilbert (CA), Mtl Strings; Francois Koh (KR), Quasar saxophone quartet (CA), KMH Strings; Marcus Jonsson (SE), Kristinehamns Stråkorkester; Maria Erixon (SE).
Alternative title: Bilder av fält utan stängsel
Score available at: nomus21
Release on: Title TBA album, Moderna records (CA) 2020