Side 1: About the Technique
a. What is the relationship between composition and improvisation?
photo by Ann Iren Ødeby
Besides composing, the performances I have done over the last twenty years using vocals, often with live electronics, and most often in an improvised setting, has also greatly influenced my composing, my methods and thinking about form, timbre, and the aspect of communication. I have also felt, while composing, the challenge of grasping some of that immediacy a performance gives. Over the last years I have combined performance and improvisations more and more with more traditional composing, perhaps starting with the Concerto for Voice which features me as an improvising soloist with an orchestra.