Anna Thorvaldsdottir : Illumine
from Shadows' Dream, Nordic Music (FBRCD-22) by Trondheim Soloists
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ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR is one of a handful of Icelandic composers who have proposed new direction for Nordic ‘nature’ music, one in which nature is as much a technical guide as it
is an aesthetic inspiration. Natural forms and processes influence the metamorphosic states of Thorvaldsdottir’s canvass-like scores, each
of them an ecosystem of sounds in which all materials continuously grow in and out of each other, often resembling the fungus-like, dark
volcanic rock that forms Iceland’s unmistakable landscape.
Illumine was written in 2016 for string ensemble. It includes many of the hallmarks apparent in Thorvaldsdottir’s bigger orchestral works:
‘extended’ instrumental techniques that see instruments played in unusual ways (in this case delivering evocative slaps, thwacks and thuds); a searching tendency to reach for microtones (the notes between the notes); drones or pedal notes pressured into bending out of shape; uneasy harmonic concessions that suggest a world
teetering on the edge of change – or worse. A latent threat seems to exist underneath Illumine, which appears to be held suspended in the air, by turns glistening with luminosity and shot through with
darkness. The feeling, familiar to many Nordic folk at high latitudes, is that nature is both friend and foe.
is an aesthetic inspiration. Natural forms and processes influence the metamorphosic states of Thorvaldsdottir’s canvass-like scores, each
of them an ecosystem of sounds in which all materials continuously grow in and out of each other, often resembling the fungus-like, dark
volcanic rock that forms Iceland’s unmistakable landscape.
Illumine was written in 2016 for string ensemble. It includes many of the hallmarks apparent in Thorvaldsdottir’s bigger orchestral works:
‘extended’ instrumental techniques that see instruments played in unusual ways (in this case delivering evocative slaps, thwacks and thuds); a searching tendency to reach for microtones (the notes between the notes); drones or pedal notes pressured into bending out of shape; uneasy harmonic concessions that suggest a world
teetering on the edge of change – or worse. A latent threat seems to exist underneath Illumine, which appears to be held suspended in the air, by turns glistening with luminosity and shot through with
darkness. The feeling, familiar to many Nordic folk at high latitudes, is that nature is both friend and foe.
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from Shadows' Dream, Nordic Music (FBRCD-22),
released May 31, 2021
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Fabra label of Norway was founded in 1993 and has presently released 29 albums and 4 ep's. Run by Geir Inge Lotsberg. All artwork by Erik Johan Worsøe Eriksen.
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