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[…] by Anthony Roth Constanzo. Danish / American composer Kristina Wolfe is a sound archeologist, wandering the world and listening closely, recording found sounds, transforming them, presenting them to us simply and directly and letting us hear them as music. Her new work will be performed by passionate flutist Molly Barth. María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir has performed on the Bang on a Can Marathon before – in 2006 she came as a member of Amiina, Iceland’s ensemble that looks like a string quartet and tours like a band. As a composer she brings her sensitive ear and exquisite timing to this new work for double bass, performed by UK-based bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE. Matthew Shipp is spontaneity itself. He is a deeply probing composer and virtuoso pianist whose work is almost wholly improvised – he is an improviser’s improviser, and the thrill of his performance is that his […]
2020-11-13 09:27:47
I have just finished reading Neil Price's terrific book Children of Ash and Elm, [Amazon, Hive] about the Vikings and their culture, and under its influence I am trying to read some of the primary sources, in translation, starting with The Sagas of the Icelanders [Amazon, Hive] so I was more than intrigued when this popped into my inbox this week. Odin's Raven Magic is an orchestral work created as a collaboration between a diverse group of Icelandic musicians, the band Sigur Rós, the musician Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Steindór Andersen, the most respected chanter of Iceland’s traditional epic narrative known as Rímur and Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (from the string quartet Amiina). The work is inspired by the 14th or 15th century poem Hrafnagaldur Óðins (Odin's Raven Magic) which is associated with (scholars disagree about its origins) the Poetic Edda one of the two major written sources of our knowledge of […]
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