Christian Blom Bring Me That Horizon (WP)
Jan Martin Smørdal (herd)STUDY (WP)
Ragnhild Berstad xtendõ (WP)
Silje Aker Johnsen – soprano
Vidar Koksvik - glass artist
Ultima regulars Ensemble Ernst formed in 1996 to specialise in new music. This sequence of three Norwegian premieres highlights work with undercurrents from the natural sciences.
The starting point for composer Christian Blom’s Bring Me That Horizon was noises made by his self-built mechanical orchestra. The random movementa of his automata revealed a music he could never have dreamed up in his own imagination.
Jan Martin Smørdal is fascinated by the swarming and flocking movements of insects, birds and animals, and herd(STUDY) attempts to replicate such forms of ‘emergent behaviour’.
In Ragnhild Berstad’s new piece, sounds of glass are mixed with instrumental interpretations of robins’ birdsong. Xtendõ is an exploration of time and being-in-the-moment: creating a deeper sense of now.
NB! Unfortunately the venue in the printed program is wrong. On page 16 it says that the concert is being arranged in Kulturkirken Jacob, but the correct arena for this is Sentralen/Marmorsalen.
