PORTRAIT OF EIVIND BUENE
Doubles (2023)
Nature morte (2008)
conductor Lars Mlekusch
Eivind Buene talking to this evening's hosr Mara Genschel
Portraits of contemporary composers and core 20th century works, which have influenced modern music down the years are, important, fixed features in theses Happy New Ears events. EIVIND BUENE, born in 1973 in Oslo, where he works as a professor at the Music Academy, where he graduated in 1973, was Composer in Residence with the Oslo Sinfonietta and has worked with orchestras including the Ensemble intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, the Musikfabrik Ensemble, the Oslo and Berlin philharmonic orchestras. He's also passionate about improvised music. In his Schubert Lounge project, he developed his own arrangements of Schubert lieder, accompanying himself on a Fender Rhodes keyboard. He's written 5 novels and numerous essays and experiments in combining text and music. In Doubles, instruments come face to face with their own “double”: recurring harmonies, in the form of a chaconne, for example, encounter microtonal structures and mixtures of timbres that explore the expressive range of the instruments involved. Nature morte is the final part of his Possible Cities cycle, in which he explores the relationship between a monumental city and what will remain of it one day, probably a landscape of ruins, thereby drawing on Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities.
