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SIX MOVING GUITARS

SIX MOVING GUITARS

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SOFA MUSIC , 2019

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Six Moving Guitars is a choreographed musical work for six guitars. The piece comprises an integrated whole of sound and movement, where all the six performers become moving guitar players and where the moving of the guitars is always instrumental to its specific spatial and sounding effect. The piece can also be seen as a study in how people, without necessarily being trained musicians and/or dancers, can act together in a musical situation based on awareness of listening and spatial orientation.

 

Six Moving Guitars is released by the record company SOFA MUSIC, and can be heard online here.

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The work was filmed by Jenny Berger Myhre for We Sing for the Future Festival by Louth Contemporary Music Society. It is fascinating and beautiful to watch. Look at the piece here.

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Six Moving Guitars has its origins in  The fifty meters (2018)

a choreographic sound work in an old industrial hall.

 

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Composer: Fredrik Rasten Concept, choreography and performance: Fredrik Rasten, Marie Bergby Handeland, Mathilde Øverland, Erlend Albertsen, Catharina Vehre Gresslien and Hans Pålsen Kjorstad Photo: Elin Osjord Sound: Espen Reinersten Film: Jenny Berger Myhre

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"... this music is quivering full of nerve and beauty." (...) non-virtuoso projections and calm steps from the performers create a completely different form of movement, with both active and passive resonance in the guitar strings, and in the nerve strands I would add. " (...) As a listener, we can only imagine the movements of the six musicians, but we can hear them trip legs against the ground, feel their body temperature, and notice how their movements affect the sounds, like rings in the water. " - Review Jazz News

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