general information

composition date
2003
duration
10 min

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Voice(s) and/or choir(s) and plucked strings)

detailed formation

soprano, guitar

information about the creation

date
September 12, 2009

Norvège, Oslo, Litteraturhuset, Ultima Festival

interpreters

Silje Marie Aker Johnsen : soprano, Solmund Nystabakk : guitare.

Information on the electronics

Electronic device
amplification

Program note

Words tend to disappear before our very ears in favour of their meaning. The word word has a special position in the language, because it also points back to it self, forms a kind of closed circle and therefore manages to be concrete meaning as a word as well as absolute - not-to-something-else-referring. It means itself. The text in the piece consists of the word word in Islamic, German, Romanian, Arabic dialect and Koran Arabic: orð, wort, vorbă, kilma, kilmeh. These are repeated again and again as a mantra or a substream exposed to different degrees of distortion and infiltrated by sounds and phonemes without meaning. The piece is among other things the struggle of these five words to mount to the surface - to become meaning.




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