Pendants

Review: DN.se
Nominated for Nutida Sound 2013 for best contemporary music

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Pendants means “jewelry”, “prisms” or “pendant” in English, and in French “in the meantime” and “waiting”. All of this fits into the description of Jesper Nordin’s music. In the final movement of the title track Pendants, Asian bells are allowed to swing and strike together freely and improvisationally, just as Nordin composes.

For Jesper Nordin, the creative moment is central. He has himself developed a digital drawing board to become an instrument for improvisation.

A line can be traced back to the late 1950s when Giacinto Scelsi played music on his keyboard, the ondiola. Nordin has been working with improvisational music for years. At the same time, there are two more important pieces of the puzzle: Nordin comes from an ancient family of fiddlers, but his first musical steps were taken in a completely different context, namely punk. All of this may seem like sound worlds that are impossible to reconcile, but for Jesper Nordin it is about a huge sound bank to exploit.