Räkna med Mig
Programme Note
It is funny how the brain works, especially when it comes to connecting things together. As a composer with various types of synaesthesia i often find myself in a situation where i need to adapt my world perception to the new environment. These pieces are a perfect illustration of this confusing process.
To the listener: please close your eyes and experience the sound.
1: Fyra (4)
2: Tre (3)
3: Ett (1)
4: Twå (2)
5: Fem (5)
Instrumentation
Flute/piccolo
Oboe
Clarinett in Bb
Horn F
Bassoon
Duration 10.00”
Imagine the colour of a cloudy sky right before the lighting cuts through with the rage of a storm. This electric purple grey. To me that is the colour of 1, the sound of Fyra and this piece.
The deep grey, nearly black with specks fo white and colours undescribable… The strange colour of 2, of the sound of Tre and this piece.
The red of the rose, the crimson os the sunrise on a cold winters morning, the dusty colour of wet red granite road. This is the colour of 3, the sound of Ett and the colour of this piece.
This is one colour that is hard to describe, it is both orange and pink, and even a bit green, but it is not the colour of salmon, not the colour of coral of the colour of tea roses, it is a colour that perhaps only exists in the mind of the composer and in the osund of this piece
Context Note
These pieces are placed in the order of their colour , however, should the performers have a different idea of the order in which the pieces should be performed or wish to choose only one or a few miniatures, please, adapt the general program note or omit it entirely.
The pieces are orginised in the order by the following critria: the colour of the sound of the piece is matched to the phonetic colour of the numbers in Swedish, that is the same as the colour of the numbers as a symobol. For example: Greyish purple = sound of “Fyra” and the colour of 1.
Ah, the piece where everything matches! The beautiful light cream rose with streaks of orange and yellow, bright like the summers day and colourful like the autumn forest.
