Oslo 14 Vocal Ensemble - Ut=inn (2019)

Experimental vocal music from a big vocal ensemble. About Andreas Backers Love, Pen and Paper: The piece aims at exploring the instrumental, sonic potential, characteristics and qualities of the voice, offering a great range of voice techniques, dynamics and musical expression. The work's aesthetics and general vocabulary attract inspiration from European free improvisational tradition over the last 30-40 years, combined with the influence of modern free jazz, folk music from different corners of the world and classical contemporary music from the 20th to the 21st century. Backer has also partly taken a starting point in both his own vocal, physical and mental musical palettes as a vocal improvisationary musician, and further different working methods and approaches to the musical formation of different vocal technique areas. About Guro S. Moes Why are we so afraid to feel, do you know: The composition is based on a common emotional understanding of motivation into the sound material and a quest for a multi-media expression. This is a method derived from both the compositional work with the theatre company Plexus Polaires and the compositional work with the Len dem Ikke ut with Frida nnevik and the dancers Astrid Groseth and Marthe Reithaug Sterud in 2014. Moe has taken the method further in pure musical compositions and the result gave a huge artistic, robust experience, through the work Svart/Hvitt at nyMusikk (Norway's Centre for New Music And Sound Art), June 2015 and Lysleder during the Borealis Festival 2016 with the ensemble Avgarde. This method opens up a strong common language where all knowledge stood equal; it formed a community and established a deep trust even though the musicians have never played together as a group. Moe's conviction is that this creates music with a different sensitivity and energy, and this is what she as a composer wants to explore.