Håkon Thelin Light The Norwegian double bass player and composer Håkon Thelin released his first album with his own compositions on the label Atterklang in 2011. Håkon is recognized as one of the worlds leading performers of contemporary music, and he has researched and presented a number of novel techniques on the double bass. The album feature his solo playing and the performance of two duos, with the tenor Frank Havrøy and with the Italian violinist Marco Rogliano who plays on the title track “Light”. Light was recently awarded the Norwegian Grammy “Spellemannprisen” for best contemporary music album 2011. As an ensemble musician, Håkon is widely known from the group POING who in 2011 were artistic leaders and artists in residence for the Ultima festival in Oslo, the largest festival for contemporary music in Scandinavia. He regularly performs with leading European ensembles like musikFabrik and Ensemble Modern. From 2007-‐2010 Håkon was employed as an artistic research fellow at the Norwegian Academy of Music with the project "A new world of sounds -‐ advancements in contemporary double bass techniques". Here, he specifically works on the music and techniques of Stefano Scodanibbio, researching novel techniques such as harmonics and multiphonics and questioning performance practices in contemporary music. “The music on this CD represents a defining discovery of my own musical voice, as it speaks through the double bass. The exploration of sounds has been ensued by an evolving thought regarding the contextualization of this specific language of music, which I have come to call a folk music for the double bass. The great Italian double bass player and composer Stefano Scodanibbio said that he wanted ”...to allow the contrabass to sing with its own voice”. During the 1980’s he found this voice, which came from the instrument itself, being based on the possibillities that the instrument provides. The main discovery that allowed such a language to be created was the expansion of flageolet techniques, the most evident being the interchanging of ordinary tones and flageolets. The conception of such a folk music for the double bass has been my main approach in creating this music, and my aim for the sounding result. To create a composed music, bound by intricate fixed rhythms, melodic shapes and forms, but yet to envince the sounding impressions of improvisation. My music is based upon an exploration of certain sounds which speak particularly well through the double bass. The overtones enable a new world of sounds, and at the same time strengthen the link to the fundamentals of all sound.”
Contact: Håkon Thelin www.thelin.no www.haakonthelin.com [email protected] phone: +47 95247305
Kristian Skaarbrevik www.atterklang.com [email protected] phone: +47 92442101
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