Klangbiotoper Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer

• 1 Kvæven 05:49
• 2 Tvo duvor 03:41
• 3 Klovnefiskens desorientering 02:32
• 4 Sju vindar 05:57
• 5 Valbekkskogen 02:41
• 6 Dagpåfugløyelarvens betraktninger 01:52
• 7 Sut 03:25
• 8 Å den svalande vind 02:38
• 9 Gåsenebbhvalens lament 03:40
• 10 Ekko 03:13
• 11 Det var en gang 06:27
• Total Runtime 41:55

Info for Klangbiotoper

Politische Klanglandschaften: „Klangbiotoper“ ist das, was man von der norwegischen Ausnahmevokalistin Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer wohl am Wenigsten erwartet hätte: Ein politisches Statement: „Ich habe beobachtet und darüber nachgedacht, was mit unserem Planeten passiert“, so Meyer, „Ich habe über meinen fehlenden Willen zum Handeln nachgedacht sowie den fehlenden Willen der Menschen im allgemeinen. So wurde die Arbeit an dieser Scheibe für mich zu einem Mittel, mit Orten, Gewächsen und Kreaturen in der Natur in einen Dialog zu treten.“

Politik bedeutet hier freilich nicht kanalisierte Wut oder das Verfolgen einer ideologischen Agenda. Sondern eher eine Rückkehr zur Menschlichkeit, einen Neuaufbau unserer Beziehung zur Natur, ein Sich-Öffnen für die Schönheit, die uns umgibt. Die sanft fließenden Kompositionen pendeln zwischen Folkmelodien aus Meyer’s Kindheit und fast schon skulpturhaften Instrumental-Teilen, in denen die Band aus Tuba, Saxophon und Schlagzeug flackernde Schatten an die Wand des inneren Ohrs wirft.

„Klangbiotoper“ ist zugleich audiophile Kopfhörermusik und direkte, unverfälschte Emotionalität, ein Bekenntnis zu den eigenen Wurzeln und zu dem, was uns alle verbindet.

Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer, Gesang
Lars Andreas Haug, Tuba
Grzech Piotrowski, Saxofon
Terje Isungset, Percussion
Gast:
Zakarias Nikolai Meyer Øverli, Gesang (on track 9)

Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer
is a distinctive voice artist, multi-vocalist, and composer who explores her instrument to create music through vocal timbres with different ranges of expression and color. Her music free of genres is filtered through several genres and stylistic expressions that range from classical vocal tradition, selected ethnic traditions including throat singing, Norwegian folk music, multiphonics, and pure noise music. Her voice range is from 32 Hz to 2800 Hz, almost 7 octaves. This expression makes her popular for concerts, stage productions, film music, sound installations, and recordings all over the world.

With her multi-expressive vocal expression, she creates sound worlds from the realistic to the unrealistic, the expected and the unexpected, and the sound becomes the narrator.

She collaborates worldwide with instrumentalists and singers from various genres and cultures. She is the vocal soloist in the World Orchestra/Warsaw under the direction of Grzech Piotrowski and other main collaborators are jazz pianist Helge Lien and organist/composer Nils Henrik Asheim. ...

Nordic Voices
was formed in 1996 and consists of singers educated at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Academy of Opera. Right from the start, it was a goal to explore the possibilities of the human voice and get composers to write more demanding and exciting music for vocal ensembles. The singers are classically trained, they are familiar with various extended vocal techniques, and always challenge themselves to expand their possibilities. Their close work with a wide range of composers has led to more than 70 world premieres. Nordic Voices masters a wide range of musical styles, everything from folk music and Renaissance music to new works commissioned by composers from all over the world.

In concert, Nordic Voices often presents program concepts that revolve around themes, such as historical figures or poetry, which bring the music to life in several unexpected ways. Artistic creativity, communication, versatility and technical precision are the main ingredients in the perfect recipe for a vocal ensemble. These are precisely the elements that make up Nordic Voices, a six-voice a cappella group that has made waves not only in Norway and Europe, but in places as far away as South Africa, Japan, Bolivia, as well as frequent tours to the USA and Canada.

Nordic Voices are: Tone Elisabeth Braaten (soprano), Ingrid Hanken (soprano), Ebba Rydh (mezzo-soprano), Per Kristian Amundrød (tenor), Frank Havrøy (baritone/tenor), and Rolf Magne Asser (bass).

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