commission: Concerts Sweden for ensemble MA
first performance: 5.9.2009, Capitol, Stockholm, MA: Sarah Lindloff, Kennet Bohman, Christer Johnsson, Eva Lindal, Chrichan Larson, Love Derwinger, Jonny Axelsson, conductor: Staffan Larson
publisher: Svensk Musik
Sondes
Inspiration from the Japanese word Ma (dimension, interval, distance in time and space) was a natural starting point for composing for the Ma ensemble. Sondes thus consists of a network of different tempi, each linked to a specific space-time. Each instrument follows its own path or line, its own combination of these different spaces, crossing, merging or overlapping with the other instruments throughout the piece, and can appear as a “soloist” according to a dramaturgy of roles between the instruments in specific sections: in short, a kind of patchwork, organized in advance.
The title Sondes (Sounding lines) was an obvious choice, referring above all to the exploration of registers, towards nautical depths and airy heights, in lines.
Madeleine Isaksson