Jakob Bangsø - Connect – Electronic Works for Guitar (2018)

The five composers behind these world premiere recordings, written for the young classical guitarist Jakob Bangsø, all share a keen interest in the field of electroacoustic music. Through live electronics, sound-transforming algorithms and interactive systems, CONNECT explores captivating soundscapes in the borderlands between the acoustic and the digital, the raw and the processed, the heard and the reheard – guitar and electronics are equal partners.

The connection between man and machine is more topical than ever before. It is what is in focus in this release, with music as the communicative medium; from the ‘old’ acoustic sound in one corner of the ring to harsh digital noise in the other. In between lies the music, as heard and written by five composers, all with experience of working in this particular field. CONNECT features works, all of which are appearing for the first time on CD. The composers have all worked with electronics and especially with live electronics, presenting here works which also incorporate interactive computer software. The music has its origins in curiosity about the connection between the acoustic and the digital, the musician and the computer, the living and the “replayed”. Within this field between the acoustic and the electronic the works are played out: delicate sounds of the guitar and musical associations with Spain and even Arab scales as against elec­tro­nics that can extend the acoustic tonal universe far into possible futures and remote universes. Guitar and electronics are equal partners.

The Danish-Norwegian composer and artist, Tine Surel Lange (b. 1989), works with the surrounding world as both theme and material. She trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Sonic College, the Norwegian College of Music and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her compositions range from chamber music with live electroacoustics, where classical instruments are treated electro­nically, to soundscapes, ambisonics, industrial sounds, noise, graphics and video. She belongs to a new generation of artists and composers who work with, among other things, ‘3D sound’. ...

Jakob Bangsø, classical guitar