NORDIN
4th Retrospective
for Double Bass, Chamber Orchestra and Optional Live Electronics
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JESPER NORDIN
4th Retrospective for Double Bass, Chamber Orchestra and Optional Live Electronics (2023)
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LEIP ZI G · L ONDO N · NE W YOR K
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INSTRUMENTATION
2 Flutes
2 Oboes
2 Clarinets
2 Bassoons
2 Horns in F
2 Trumpets (one in B- and one in C)
Percussion (one player)
First staff - Tam-tam (with chains and/or drum sticks added for rattling effect), Ride Cymbal and Triangle Second staff - Gran Cassa and 3 large to mid sized Tom-Toms
Optional Live Electronics
Use microphones on all or part of the orchestra as your sound source and treat the material according to the instructions. Feel free but make sure to not drown out the orchestra or the Soloist commissioned for the inaguration of the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm 2017
Solo Double Bass (in solo tuning)
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Violoncello
Double Bass
Quartertone notation
Duration ca.18’
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4th Retrospective is the fourth piece in a series of orchestral pieces where I go back to earlier material and look at it in a different way. I do this mostly by re-composing existing material through my apps Gestrument and ScaleGen where I can import the ”musical DNA” of a piece and then see what else can be obtained from the same material.
At the writing of the first piece in this series 2016 (commissioned for the inauguration of the new Campus for the Royal College of Music in Stockholm) it was fifteen years since I graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2001. When I graduated it was fifteen years since I first started playing music in a local punk band in 1986. Therefore my graduation from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm marked half time of my active musical life, and that seemed like a good starting point for a new series of pieces that focus on retrospection and self-reflection.
The other pieces in the Retrospective series have been commissioned by the Brandenburger Symfoniker, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae and for the inauguration of the new campus of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
Commissioned by ShareMusic & Performing Arts and Västmanlandsmusiken / Västerås Sinfonietta
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Jesper Nordin
Jesper Nordin (b. 1971) studied at the Royal College in Stockholm, at IRCAM in Paris and at Stanford University where he carried out research at the CCRMA studio. Electronic elements, folk, rock and improvisation inform his music. Conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Harding and Kent Nagano have collaborated with Nordin; the S an Francisco Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Philharmonia Orchestra and Ensemble Intercontemporain have performed his music as well as soloists like Martin Fröst and Pekka Kuusisto. A s a developer he has founded the music tech startups Gestrument & Reactional Music that have released apps and interactive music for video games.
Jesper Nordin (*1971) studierte an der Königlichen Musikhochschule in Stockholm, bei Philippe Leroux am IRCAMInstitut in Paris und später bei Brian Ferneyhough an der Standford University, wo er auch am CCRMA-Studio forschte. Seine musikalische Sprache ist von elektronischen und folkloristischen Elementen, von Rock und Improvisation geprägt. Dirigenten wie Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Harding und Kent Nagano haben mit Nordin zusammengearbeitet; seine Werke wurden von der San Francisco Symphony, dem Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, dem Philharmonia Orchestra und dem Ensemble Intercontemporain, sowie Solisten wie Martin Fröst und Pekka Kuusisto aufgeführt. Als Entwickler hat er die Musiktechnologie-Startups Gestrument und Reactional Music gegründet, die Apps und interaktive Musik für Videospiele neu aufgelegt haben.
Photo © Freddie Sandström