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Contemporary and experimental vocal music and electronics

Name: Oslo 14 Vocal Ensemble - Ut=inn (CD)
SKU: WEEC656061
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Ut = Inn (Â«Outwards = InwardsÂ») is a collaborative composition by Tone Ãse and vocal ensemble Oslo 14. Ãse wanted to explore how musical ideas, associations, and new sounds and meanings can appear when we listen closely to sounds that surround us in our daily live. The found sounds in the composition were collected by the vocalists in the ensemble, and they also produced texts, triggered by the sounds they chose to collect. This material became the point of departure for Ãse”s composing, and the work was developed further through workshops with the ensemble. The different frameworks for improvisation call for the same state of listening focus and awareness that the piece is exploring. The work has 8 connected parts/landscapes that are meant to be listened to as a whole.

Tone Ãse is using voice sound, extended techniques, electronically processed sound and recorded sound in her work as improviser and composer in general. She is exploring he merging of sound and song, and the mediation between sonic, melodic and rhythmical parameters and words/text both as sonic material and as meaning . She sees the electronic possibilities as an extension of the vocal instrument, and together with the collective improvisation seeks to open up a place for the vocalist to take on new roles in the interplay.