NORDIC EXTRACTION (2022) for violin, viola, cello, piano & live electronics (MaxMSP, duration: 29:37) is dedicated to Rudersdal Chamber Players – digital release: April 26, 2024.
NORDIC EXTRACTION focuses on removing or taking out something, what can be extracted from the Nordic? Prepare for a melancholic ambiance and a mesmerizing interplay of motifs, intricately woven with beautiful piano and string melodies, an artistic exploration of the region’s essence with modal harmonic structures, and live electronics. The quartet’s acoustic sound is transformed in real-time by the MaxMSP software into a double-sided expression: the acoustic reality and the surreal electronic sound processing.
The work is conceived in a larger work cycle, The Nordic Trilogy including NORDIC BROKEN and NORDIC FRAGMENTS. They have in common the use of the piano and live electronics and are inspired by the life and nature in Scandinavia. The Nordic Trilogy itself is characterized by music with Nordic moods. It is the dawning morning that looms hopefully in the east. And the melancholy dusk when the sun colors the northern sky in red-orange colors. Spring and Autumn with morning and evening shadows reminiscent of the elasticity of life. The ecstatic endless bright summer nights, and the endless pensive long winter evenings. Morning mist over the field bug, the calm glitter of the water in the moonlight. The powerful greenery of spring, the explosion of Autumn in diverse colors, the bright light of winter, and the long warm evenings of Summer.