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What do we experience when we listen? Not seldom, just a fleeting sensation, born beyond the reach of words.
For Reasons Unknown, the title of Peder Barratt-Due’s new work, is borrowed from Lucky's monologue in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot – a torrent of seemingly nonsensical thoughts circling around the insoluble and absurd nature of existence. Barratt-Due’s music inhabits a similar borderland between restlessness and beauty, fragmentation and coherence.
In Residue, Joanna Bailie processes musical recordings through layers of echo and distortion. The sound oscillates between recognisable contours and dissolving harmonies, gradually merging with the live sonority of the strings. The echo of what once was hovers in the room like a ghost.
The concert concludes with the duo Tlön (violinist Sara Övinge and cellist Gregor Riddell) in close collaboration with musicians from the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Inspired by the magical realism of Aldous Huxley and Jorge Luis Borges, they transform familiar musical references into strangely beautiful soundscapes.
Familiar turns strange, and one listens – searching, vulnerably present.
Programme
Peder Barratt-Due
For Reasons Unknown (world premiere)
Joanna Bailie
Residue for strings and tape (2024) (Norwegian premiere)
Tlön
Huxley for amplified strings with effects
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with Pekka Kuusisto. Photo: Magnus Skrede
Peder Barratt-Due
Joanna Bailie
Tlön. Photo: Yrjan Sundfør Rodrigues
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra at Sentralen