Tag: Rei Munakata

  • Infiltrations

    Infiltrations

    Infiltrations

    Cover art for Madeleine Isaksson's album Infiltrations with Gageego!

    Madeleine Isaksson

    Conductor: Rei Munakata
    Producer: Per Sjösten

    Footprint Records FR129
    2024

    Buy and listen: Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, CD

    A composer portrait signed Gageego!

    Madeleine Isaksson’s work are a recurring feature at Gageego!’s concerts. Now we are finally presented a portrait of the composer with works from different phases of Isaksson’s production:

    1. Infiltrations (2022)
    2. Fibres (2004)
    3. Sondes (2009)
    4. Far … (2011)
    5. Ici est ailleurs (1988–1989)

    Besides Gageeego! featured guest musicians are Stefan Östersjö on guitar and Hans Hellsten on organ.

    From the CD insert essay

    The key words here are ‘map’, ‘colour’ and, especially, ‘drawing’. They suggest ideas to do with lines and relationships, as well as forms of movement and spontaneity: means of navigation and orientation, the connecting of points, and the articulation of vertical and horizontal space.

    When one talks at greater length with the composer, these are the concepts that the conversation keeps coming back to. And although some aspects of Isaksson’s style and technique have evolved over the years – particularly her early use of microtones, which have been more or less absent from her music since the early 2000s – the fundamental 4 elements have remained relatively constant.

    From Ici est ailleurs, from 1998, to Infiltrations, composed in 2022, this CD presents an oppor- tunity to examine the development and stability of those elements across almost the full span of Isaksson’s career.

    Atmospheric soundscape

    Producer Per Sjösten has created a three-dimensional and evocative soundscape that is particularly effective in the Dolby Atmos edition (Apple Music and Tidal). Also available in 24 bit lossless stereo.

    Cover art: Jean-Louis Garnell

  • Late night: Gageego! in new organ piece

    Late night: Gageego! in new organ piece

    2022/10/21 @ 22:00 – 23:00

    Step into a nocturnal sound world when the chamber ensemble Gageego! explores the possibilities of the organ and the ensemble in the enormous acoustics of the concert hall.

    Inspired by the new concert hall organ, Swedish composer Madeleine Isaksson has written a brand new piece for Gageego! and organ. In tonight’s concert, we get to be part of the premiere.

    We also hear Isaksson’s piece Fibers for flute, violin and guitar and Anna Korsun’s Spleen for bass flute, clarinet, barytone saxophone, violin and two cellos. And in Germany-based Marina Khrokova’s Installation, the organ’s entire tonal spectrum is explored. Hans Hellsten, professor at Malmö Academy of Music and specialist in contemporary organ music, is the soloist.

    The concert is carried out with the support of The Swedish Arts Council.

    Gothenburg International Organ Festival

    Gothenburg International Organ Festival 2022 welcomes all ages to a world of passion and sound experiences. The festival is Northern Europe’s largest organ festival and has existed since 1994. A number of great musicians take part in workshops and concerts in Gothenburg’s Concert Hall and in Gothenburg’s largest churches.

    The Concert Hall Organ

    The new concert hall organ with its 9 000 pipes is behind the stage and the vibrations from the bass pipes extend under the floor all the way to the middle parquet.

    Programme

    Madeleine Isaksson Fibres, 2004
    Marina Khorkova Installationen, 2011
    Anna Korsun Spleen for singing ensemble, 2019
    Madeleine Isaksson Infiltrations, 2022

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    Stora salen, Göteborgs konserthus

    Götaplatsen 8
    412 56 Göteborg Sverige
    031-726 53 10
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    Details

    Date:
    2022/10/21
    Time:
    22:00 – 23:00
    Cost:
    210SEK – 290SEK
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    Göteborgs konserthus
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    031-726 53 10
    Email
    biljett@gso.se
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  • Timelines

    Timelines

    2022/10/15 @ 19:00 – 20:30

    Rei Munakata, conductor

    Gageego! celebrates two pioneers: György Ligeti – who would have celebrated his 100th birthday next year – is celebrated with his wonderful 10 Pieces for Woodwind Quintet, and Karlheinz Stockhausen with the iconic Zeitmasse, the work that brought serialism to the time dimension. We also cast an eye towards the pioneers of the future in Swedish-French composer Madeleine Isaksson’s ingeniously layered web of sounds and timelines, Sondes, and in the Visby-based American Joseph Lake’s sprawling, vast and meditative This is one small stone in an entire city of monuments I am building for you.

    Hungarian composer György Ligeti is one of the most important artists of the post-war period. He is in many ways a panorama through which the late musical achievements of the 20th century can be discerned, both through his aesthetic transformations and his varied residence: from labor camps under Nazism, to the avant-garde idealistic Central European mecca in Cologne, to Hollywood star-studded shimmer through not least film director Stanley Kubrick’s recurring use of his music.

    Zeitmasse is one of the German pioneer composer Karlheinz Stockhausen‘s real breakthrough works. Like several of Stockhausen’s pieces, there are often shelves of analyzes to delve into. Overall, Zeitmasse is a first implementation of the systematics of serialism in the time dimension. Before that, serialism had only been found in the structuring of pitches, in Zeitmasse Stockhausen goes a step further.

    Madeleine Isaksson‘s music is characterized by the floating and shimmering. The meticulous sounds are like layered tonal sculptures. There is a sensibility, and impressionistic color scheme that appears to explain why she decided to settle in Paris many years ago. Isaksson’s music looks organic, as if under the pace of music grows and takes shape – becomes form.

    For a number of years, the American composer Joseph Lake has lived in Visby, where he teaches at Gotland’s composer school. An environment and place that is not so strange when you consider the sounds that Lake has been exploring for a long time. His musical appearance is characterized by a silence and a deep fascination for the richness of the individual tone.

    This evening we will experience all this, with the Gothenburg-based ensemble Gageego! and conductor Rei Munakata.

    Stenhammarsalen, Göteborgs konserthus

    Götaplatsen 8
    412 56 Göteborg Sverige
    031-726 53 10
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    Details

    Date:
    2022/10/15
    Time:
    19:00 – 20:30
    Cost:
    105SEK – 260SEK
    Event Category:
    Event Tags:
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    Organizer

    Göteborgs konserthus
    Phone
    031-726 53 10
    Email
    biljett@gso.se
    Website
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  • Göteborg International Organ Festival

    Göteborg International Organ Festival

    Logotyp för Göteborg International Organ Academy

    2021/10/24 @ 19:00 – 21:30

    Creative Collisions V

    Rei Munakata, an extended Gageego! and two organists – Ligita Sneibe och Hans Davidsson – perform a work commissioned by Swedish Radios, and much more.

    Programme

    Michelangelo Rossi Toccata settima
    Christer Lindwall Sometimes standing in the void, sometimes shivering in the open
    Girolamo Frescobaldi Toccata quarta per l’organo da sonarsi alla levatione, Il seccondo libro di Toccate
    Paul Hindemith Kammermusik No. 2 op 36 No. 1 for piano and chamber orchestra
    Henrik Denerin Atmen Sie mit mir… (first performance, commissioned by Swedish Radio)

    Featuring

    Rei Munakata conductor
    Mårten Landström piano
    Øyvor Volle, Helena Frankmar violin
    Daniel Lee viola
    Johan Stern cello
    Thomas Allin double bass
    Anders Jonhäll flute
    Geoffrey Cox oboe
    Ragnar Arnberg, Kate McDermott clarinet
    Constantin Gerstein bassoon
    Lisa Ford horn
    Bengt Danielsson trumpet
    Endre Vetås trombone
    Kristian Karlstedt tuba
    Ligita Sneibe organ
    Hans Davidsson organ
    Stefan Östersjö guitar
    Jonas Larsson, Johan Bejke percussion

    Göteborg International Organ Academy

    +46 738 41 86 00

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  • GSOPlay: low fidelity

    GSOPlay: low fidelity

    A first performance that finally can meet its audience: Joshua Wat’s somber soundscapes, inspired by his native Hong Kong. Now streaming on GSOPlay.

    Please note: the clips of GSOPlay often have time limits. If this clip won’t play, it has probably been disabled for a shorter och longer time.

    Joshua Wat is a composer from Hong Kong. He has composed for orchestra, choir, various ensembles and solo instruments, as well as electronics. He has worked with ensembles like Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Gageego!. He has won the Stellar Composition Competition with his Prologue to Neither Here nor There for solo marimba. His piano quintet Souvenir of Fallen Grace was a finalist entry in the O/Modernt Composition Award in Sweden. His viola quartet Vanity of Repetition was also selected to be performed at a concert by the Dutch Viola Society. Earlier this year he has been accepted into the Swedish Society of Composers (Föreningen svenska tonsättare).

    low fidelity was written under the guidance of Malin Bång and Ole Lützow-Holm in the composition courses at the Academy of Music and Drama of the University of Gothenburg. In this piece, Joshua Wat looked at transposing daily soundscapes in Hong Kong into music for flute/bass flute, bass clarinet, percussion, piano and cello. This results in a calm and obscure listening experience in contrast to the swarming life of the city.

    Programme

    Joshua Wat low fidelity

    Rei Munakata conductor

  • GSOPlay: Tackatta

    GSOPlay: Tackatta

    In may 2020, Gageego! was scheduled to perform composer Nino Hellberg Håkansson latest work Tackatta. Restrictions due to the Corona pandemic undid those plans, but a concert was given nonetheless, in front of the Gothenburg Concert Hall’s sophisticated cameras and microphones.

    Now, this performance is available for a limited time below and on GSOPlay.

    Composer Nino Hellberg Håkansson is a methodical composer. In a master’s thesis, he has investigated how three of his compositions, using three different composition methods, are structured. The first one is to build the form of the work first and then the detailed material, according to this structure. The second is to work directly on small musical fragments that are later put together into a larger form. The third way is a combination of the first two, where one works with musical fragments while having a large form that they must fit into.

    Conclusion: to combine the first and second working methods to find a work process that is personal, while trying to innovate by working methods you are not comfortable with. The piece Tackatta was composed under the guidance of Malin Bång in the composition class at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg.

    Programme

    Nino Hellberg Håkansson Tackatta

    Conductor Rei Munakata

  • GSOPlay: Rosenberger’s Shift

    GSOPlay: Rosenberger’s Shift

    From a concert that never met a live audience, due to the pandemic. But here it is: Gageego! and conductor Rei Munakata perform Shift by Katharina Rosenberger.

    Swiss composer Katharina Rosenberger studied in Boston, London and New York and is currently active in the United States. She pays special attention to the works that move between the art forms with elements from concert music, musical theater, sound art and sound installations. Her work has been performed at concerts and festivals in London, Rome, Berlin, Prague, Marseilles and Shanghai.

    Her piece SHIFT for two trombones and ensemble was composed in 2016 and premiered in January the following year. One reviewer wrote that her music “seemingly exists in solid, liquid and seemingly gaseous states and on a myriad of planes in our spacetime continuum as we know it”.

    GSOPlay is a video channel published by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Hall of Gothenburg. You can watch its content on the web or in the app GSOPlay.

  • Spaces of Sounds

    Spaces of Sounds

    2021/03/07 @ 19:00 – 20:30

    Ligita Sneibe, organist

    Älvsborg & GIOA Quarantine Concerts presents Gageego! and organist Ligita Sneibe, live on YouTube och Facebook.

    Works by Jenny Hettne, Madeleine Isaksson and Sven-Eric Johanson. Conducted by Rei Munakata and introduced by Esaias Järnegard.

    Programme

    Sven-Eric Johanson Concerto for organ and string orchestra
    Madeleine Isaksson Ici est ailleurs, for flute, percussion, violin, viola, cello and double bass
    Jenny Hettne Backdrifting

    Featuring

    Organ: Ligita Sneibe
    Conductor: Rei Munakata
    Violin: Øyvor Volle, Helena Frankmar
    Viola: Tuula Fleivik
    Cello: Johan Stern
    Double bass: Thomas Allin
    Flutes: Anders Jonhäll
    Trombone: Endre Vetås
    Piano/Harmonium: Karin Birgersson
    Percussion: Jonas Larsson, Martin Ödlund
    Moderator: Esaias Järnegard

    About the music

    Concerto for organ and string orchestra (1946) is an early work by Sven-Eric Johanson (1919-1977) in three movements: Allegro moderato, Adagio ma non troppo and Allegro elastico. During his years in Uppsala, Johanson composed this concerto for the wedding of his friends Märta and Lars Edlund. The style is characterized by Hindemith’s musical language, a composer whose compositional technique was admired and studied by the young Swedish composers in the so-called Monday group to which Johanson belonged. For 25 years, between 1952 and 1977, Sven-Eric Johanson was organist in Älvsborg’s church. To our knowledge, today’s performance is the first time that the work is performed in its entirety on the sounds of this colorful and distinct instrument in Älvsborg’s church.

    Ici est ailleurs [Here Is Elsewhere] for flute, percussion, violin, viola, cello and double bass was composed out of a form tableau, inspired by a photographic work by artist Jean-Louis Garnell, the triptych M 96. Composer Madeleine Isaksson (b. 1956) chose to call these three pictures (in French) Ici – est – ailleurs, (in Swedish) Här – är – annorstädes, [Here – Is – Elsewhere]. These basic parts are surrounded by an introduction (Prologue) and two interludes: Intervalle 1 and 2. When folded horizontally and vertically, each movement contains its contrary mirror, Ici/Ailleurs and Ailleurs/Ici. The encounter takes place in Est, as in the flowing movement which introduce and conclude the work. In Ici the string trio, violin, viola and cello play the main part, the double bass and flute are of secondary importance. In Ailleurs the relationship is reversed. A similar relationship is found in Intervalle 1 och 2. The percussion is present throughout the piece, but plays a main part in Est where the horizontal replaces the vertical range and role play of the other movements.

    Backdrifting (2006) is an exploration of sound and timbre of the five inhomogeneous instruments, composed by Jenny Hettne (b. 1977). It is built up by two very different materials, both however relating to the transformation of an electroacoustic sound world into acoustic instruments. The first part of the piece is created out of spectral analysis of environmental sounds recorded in India, resulting in a harmonically and rhythmically chaotic material. The second part is inspired by the electronics in a Radiohead-song called “Backdrifts”, a simple rhythm and harmony, but a great variety of timbre.

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    Presented in partnership with Sensus.

    Organizer

    Göteborg International Organ Academy

    +46 738 41 86 00

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    Venue

    Älvsborgs kyrka

    Hagens Prästväg
    426 71 Västra Frölunda Sverige
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