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Maja S. K. Ratkje’s To F

26 September 2015 Trondheim Chamber Music festival concert at Gråmølna Analysis of To F: The work starts from nothing, a C with an overtone trill from ppp, and sul tasto. The tempo is so slow, and I need to create a very slow and gradual crescendo to forte. I have to force myself not to cut the time short, but…

Developing presence vlog

Developing presence practice blog 8 April 2015 I start my session just working on sitting and centring my attention. Attention on how my back is, am I sitting on my sitting bones? Head balancing on the top. Not held, not forced, just balancing. Head free. Arms hanging. The cello peg is in my neck but I try not to be bothered.…

19 August 2015

Practice blog on interpretation of Khipukamayuk Today I will focus on the interpretation – and analyse the form of the work. Trying to see figures and rhetoric principles to help me create the interpretation. At the same time, I want to keep the feeling of presence through the whole practice session. And I also try to make an affect analysis…

Alwynne Pritchard: Hospice Lazy

Hospice Lazy 24 November 2014 Hospice Lazy, a concert performance with Alpaca Ensemble and Alwynne Pritchard Hospice Lazy is a project exploring what happens with music making and performing when we take away the “holding up” of the body, using hanging devices and supporting gear, or when we approach the instrument and music from the body moving. We worked with engaging…

31 August 2014 KHIPUKAMAYUK PREMIERE

Khipukamayuk by Lene Grenager Soloist with Trondheim Sinfonietta premiering Lene Grenager’s cello concerto Khipukamayuk In the concerto, we experiment with the use of electronic effects in an acoustic setting. Lene Grenager says about the work: This piece is a cello concerto for solo cello and sinfonietta. The title refers to the Inca – kingdom. To be able to maintain the…

6 June 2014

Practice blog Khipukamayuk The harmonics, it’s a chord part – seven bars – I try to change the tension for each shift of chords to show the musical development. Then there is a melodic part, from bar 122. I try to feel the energy of smaller notes before the long ones as upbeats leading into the next – it creates…

Great comment in Klassekampen

Så derfor går jeg ned på T-banen for å lytte til «Khipukamayuk», en cd med musikk komponert av Lene Grenager og spilt av cellist Marianne Baudouin Lie, sammen med Trondheim Sinfonietta og dirigert av Trond Madsen i tittelverket på plata. Og platemerket er Øra Fonogram, etablert i 2005 og som muligens er å forstå som undergrunn. Og Grenager, er hun…

Den underfundige klangverden

Lene Grenager (f. 1969) er en søkende komponist. Hun leter hele tiden etter noe spesielt og unikt i sitt musikkskapende, noe som gir et et mangslungent lydbilde.  Det er «Khipukamayuq, konsert for cello og sinfonietta» som står i sentrum på denne platen. På solisten Marianne Baudouin Lies hjemmeside finner vi at Khipukamayuk betyr «den som kan tyde knutene», og…