Beginnings
Instrumentation
Sinfonietta and tape
Written
for the Norwegian Academy of Music’s sinfonietta
Durata
12-13 min
About
How does a piece start? Is there something like a cliché contemporary music beginning? How do my own pieces start?
This piece came about after having done thorough analyses of my own and others’ works and having thought hard about the general nature of beginnings. A piece about beginnings but one that never seems to begin, and then later comments on its own progress.
Concert recording
Score
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World premiere
by the Norwegian Academy of Music’s Sinfonietta, conductecd by Thomas Rimul, 27th of April 2007.