The ensemble asamisimasa, and Håkon Austbø portraying the Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen and Eivind Buenes version of Brahms’ Clarinet Trio.
Prepositions – to, from, in front of, behind, beside, etc – form the basis for many of the titles of the works of Simon Steen-Andersen, one of Denmark’s most promising young composers. If his explorations mostly apply in terms of space, they are also incorporated in time with Eivind Buene’s work Johannes Brahms: Klarinettentrio. Another feature they have in common is an interest in how technological tools make it possible to articulate and manifest the transformations and adaptations to which the material is subjected as something in their own right. For Buene, critical intervention will not only be a parasite of something which originally was stable, but will instead emerge as an independent part of the work. Something similar happens with Steen-Andersen, when the megaphone is transformed from a technical tool for an externally produced sound into an independent object with a life of its own.
Johannes Brahms / Eivind Buene: Clarinet Trio WP
Simon Steen-Andersen:
On & Off Ultima-version
Run Time Error v. 1
Study for String Instrument # 2
Half a Bit of Nothing Integrated
On And Off And To And Fro (for 3 megaphones and 3 instruments)
Study for String Instrument # 3
Run Time Error v. 2
asamisimasa + Håkon Austbø
Live video and whammy: Simon Steen-Andersen
Lars Erik ter Jung