Melodiska rörelser för en högtalare/Melodic movements for one loudspeaker

Premiered at NYCEMF, 16th june 2024 (New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival)

Photo from SEAMS mono concert 2020

En röst; en linje som sätter sig själv i perspektiv endast genom sin rörelse; sin färd i tiden. En linje som kanske lockar till kontrapunkt, men som här i stället får färdas fram i tiden utan annan beledsagning än vårt minne av dess rörelse.

A voice; a line that puts itself in perspective only through its movement; it's journey through time. A line that may tempt to counterpoint, but which here instead may travel in time without any other accompaniment than our memory of its own movement.

In the ”Studies for one speaker” in which the ”2019 invention for one speaker no. 3a & b” is a part, I am searching for the starting point from where my melodic lines derives from, to achieve perspective on what a melody can be. I

Searching for a swinging language hidden somewhere in the realm of imagination, the swinging between myself and my surroundings.

When playing many different kind of melodies such as in improvisations, traditional s wedish folk melodies, folk from different parts of the world I have experienced that there is a lot of similarities in terms of what a melody is. Where/when are the boundaries between when you start experiencing the sounds as a melody and where/when does it stop being one.

2020 invention for EA and video no.11