Spaces and Places

Spaces and Places Peter Bruun, JexPer Holmen, torBen SnekkeStad, morten olSen, ThomaS agerfeldt olEsen eva ØStergaard – flute SpaceS and placeS eva Østergaard, flutes and vocal peter Bruun, vocal peter langberg, bells Spaces and Places 4 PETER BRUUN Den bedste nytårsvise (The Best New Year’s Song) (2011) �� 6:03 Peter Bruun, JexPer Holmen, torBen SnekkeStad, for picccolo flute, C flute, alto flute, bass flute and vocals morten olSen, ThomaS agerfeldt olEsen 5 TORBEN SNEKKESTAD (b� 1973) eva ØStergaard – flutes and vocal Francis Sketched (2009)� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 10:16 Peter Bruun – vocal for alto flute Peter langBerg – bells 6 PETER BRUUN Alt, hvad sjælen nynner på (All that My Soul Will Hum) (2011) �� 4:58 for piccolo flute, C flute, bells, bass flute, alto flute and vocals 1 PETER BRUUN (b� 1968) Mit smykke, min rose, min ære (My Jewel, My Rose, My Honour) (2007) �� 6:08 7 MORTEN OLSEN (b� 1961) for bells, piccolo flute, C flute, alto flute, bass flute and vocals The Dark Room (2011) �� 11:56 Remix 2 JEXPER HOLMEN (1971) Mrs. Schmidt (2005/2010)� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 5:06 8 THOMAS AGERFELDT OLESEN (b� 1969) for 9 bass flutes Stralsund (2006) �� 14:41 for piccolo flute, C flute, alto flute and bass flute 3 JEXPER HOLMEN Deimos (2010)� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 2:10 Total: 61:17 for 9 bass flutes Dacapo is supported by the Danish Arts Council Committee for Music SenSing Space by Frode Andersen For some years the composer PETER BRUUN lived in the neighbouring city of Ribe and visited Løgumkloster many times. “There is a quite special atmosphere around the old abbey church in Løgumkloster. History is alive and present, and it’s as if you can feel the Few of us are aware how much we use our ears to orient ourselves in everyday life. life that was once there: the beautiful, impressive building speaks! The surroun dings Through sounds, our brain quickly forms an impression of the space or place in which too have spiritual vibrations. I’m quite sure that since the dawn of time the sacred sites we are moving, indoors as well as outside. We ‘know’ that sounds are reflected quite have been established at places where nature and the landscape already exude fertility, othe r wise in places surrounded by stone – brick churches or city spaces in concrete – than grandeur and gentleness,” he says. On one occasion when he visited Løgum kloster in buildings of wood, and the width, height and architectural shape too are signi ficant. he heard the large carillon in the tower playing one of the old Danish hymns – “The We can also tell where in the space the source of a sound is, and whether it is moving; and loveliest rose has been found”. The space of the landscape and the space of the church if it is, how quickly it is moving – an invaluable faculty to have in traffic for example. This in Løgumkloster, the sound of the bells and the hymns, were the inspiration for three capacity to sense a space with our hearing is the starting point for the present CD. pieces for song, bells and the many flutes. Løgumkloster Church in South Jutland is one of the most important church build My Jewel, My Rose, My Honour is a set of variations on “The loveliest rose”, which ings from the Middle Ages in Denmark, and was built as part of a large abbey complex almost seems to start in the landscape around Løgumkloster, hear the bells and the for the Cistercian Order. This church has particularly strong acoustics, with high melody and then move into the church. The Best New Year’s Song too is a set of variations vaulting, aisles and small spaces. EVA ØSTERGAARD has played many concerts there, on a hymn – “God’s goodness we shall praise now”, while All that My Soul Will Hum is and after one of them she had the idea of animating the space – making it into a living a composition based on the well known melody “Jesu deine tiefe Wunden”. At the end player in the experience of the music. She therefore asked a number of Danish compo one moves humming out into the landscape again, where the airy sound of the flute sers to compose music with this in mind – or should one rather say in the ear? – for this mixes with the wind and the song of the birds. particular CD. The wish to vitalize the space has meant that a range of unorthodox methods have JEXPER HOLMEN’S Mrs. Schmidt is pretty much a song, apart from the fact that it is not been used to record this CD. Normally one would have found one place in the church performed by a singing voice, but by nine bass flutes placed at various points in relation to interior where everything was recorded. But here constant variations were made in the the microphone. The nine voices fuse together into one sound, which how ever constantly distance from and positioning of the microphone and instrument, both in the main changes character in shades of light and darkness. Mrs Schmidt is not a specific person church interior and in the small passages and adjacent rooms – as well as outdoors. but a representative of all of us, just as one might say Mrs. Smith in English. At the same time Eva Østergaard’s many flutes were recorded ‘layer on layer’, often In Deimos Jexper Holmen takes us out into a different space – outer space. Deimos is the with different placings in the space. We can thus hear some flutes sounding far off, name of the Greek god of terror, but also of a very small moon in orbit around the planet some close up, some in a compact, closed space, others high up in the vaults. This gives Mars. It moves around Mars almost at the same speed as the planet’s own rotation, so our ears an impression of a space – a space both physical and mental that is constantly viewed from the surface of Mars the moon would almost seem to stand still. And the music changing and becoming a part of the music. in Deimos is almost static too; it moves around and around in the same circular motion again and again – like a small moon in orbit around a planet. 4 5 From outer to inner space: Francis Sketched is inspired by Francis Bacon’s famous painting at SanSe et rum af Frode Andersen Triptych. It is based on a long, whispering series of notes that slowly and patiently change. “I like to imagine that it is like taking these notes along on a walk,” says TORBEN SNEKKE STAD. Abstract Expressionism, Surrealist textures and rest less reflections make up this De færreste af os er bevidste om, hvor meget vi bruger vore øren til at orientere os i dag piece, as if it were a “painting for the ear”. ligdagen. Gennem lyde danner vores hjerne sig hurtig et indtryk af det rum eller sted, vi bevæger os i, inde som ude. Vi “ved” at lyde reflekteres helt anderledes i omgivelser The producer of this CD, MORTEN OLSEN, is also a composer, and his The Dark Room is a omgivet af sten – som i kirker af mursten eller byrum i beton – end i bygninger af træ, remix of selected elements recorded for this CD. In fact this is more of a recomposition, or og rummets bredde, højde og arkitektoniske udformning har ligeledes også betydning. perhaps rather a kind of soundcollage, of pieces and fragments from the CD’s other works. Vi kan også afgøre hvor i rummet en lydkilde er, og om den bevæger sig, og hvis den Here one can let one’s ears go ‘reexploring’ among the sounds and tones of the CD, and gør – hvor hurtigt den bevæger sig. En uvurderlig egenskab at have med sig i fx trafik experience how they are radically changed in sound and tone by being relocated in a differ ken. Denne egenskab – at sanse et rum gennem vores hørelse – er udgangspunktet for ent context and – as the title suggests – given a more sombre character. denne CD. Løgumkloster kirke i Sønderjylland, en af de betydeligste kirkebygninger fra middel Not far from Løgumkloster, twice a year, a strange natural phenomenon takes place, known alderen i Danmark, er bygget som del af et stort klosteranlæg for Cisterciensesordenen. by the name of ‘Black Sun’. In the marshland around Ribe huge numbers of starlings congre Denne kirke har en særlig levende akustik, med høj hvælving, gange og små rum. EVA gate, flying in great flocks across the sky – literally turning the sky black. And birds are in fact ØSTERGAARD har spillet en lang række koncerter her og fik efter en af disse koncerter the key concept in THOMAS AGERFELDT OLESEN’S Stralsund. “In Stralsund I yielded to cer idéen at levendegøre rummet – at lade det blive en konkret medspiller i oplevelsen af tain preconceptions about the flute,” says Agerfeldt Olesen. “It’s a bird fluttering around. Nor musikken. Hun bad derfor en række danske komponister komponere musik med netop mally I would avoid that sort of thing, but I thought that in among the preconceptions there dette for øje – eller burde man heller sige øre – og netop for denne CD. was a lot of valuable flotsam and jetsam that deserved to be looked at. Especially if you looked Ønsket om at levendegøre rummet har betydet, at der er blevet brugt en række at it through the microscope. The introduction looks at the flight of the birds close up, so you uortodokse metoder for at indspille denne CD.

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