Jexper Holmen - Oort Cloud
Oort Cloud
- Dacapo November 2010
Frode Andersen, accordion
Frode Haltli, accordion
Torben Snekkestad, saxophone
- Dacapo November 2010Frode Andersen, accordion
Frode Haltli, accordion
Torben Snekkestad, saxophone
This is the world premiere recording of Jexper Holmen's international breakthrough work Oort Cloud, which has just been launched at the estimated Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music to great acclaim. The work's title refers to the cloud of comets believed to surround the solar system a light-year away from here. Oort Cloud is a 1-track, 1-hour cloud of sound - an extraordinary experience in every way!
- Dacapo Records.Jexper Holmen is a composer of extremes - a classicial' composer with a penchant for the likes of Aphex Twin. One that enjoys placing the soft noise distortion of ambient electronica alongside the radical thinking and existential intensity of through-composed music such as that of Xenakis.
His earlier works were often provocative in their embrace of ugliness' - loud and extreme instrumental sounds presented in only slightly varied repeated patterns confronted one with a raw musical surface. Yet in more recent works a gentler side has made its appearance - the lengthy and subtle Night Cycle with its moments almost Feldmanesque sensitivity was also one of the first of his works to expand its boundaries so as to fill an entire CD or concert performance. Along with this one nevertheless still finds a taste for the macabre and grotesque (E.A. Poe's Berenice formed the basis for a recent chamber opera') or, as in a recent series of works, his own take on the cosmic. But the music, despite its fantasy or consciousness of bigger pictures', never spaces out' nor succumbs to grandiose schemes - it remains strongly rooted in an awareness of the musical resources used to construct it and the everyday reality the composer finds himself in.
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- This is the reading I get from most eMu files these days and the sound is good.