Basics

Retuned and amplified string quartet
Commissioned by Cikada Quartet
Premiered 12. Sep 2011, Ultima, Oslo
Revised and extended 2012
Ver. 1.0  25. April 2012

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Bendik Hagerup:
Things are connected. This is the obvious but essential truth that underpins all of Knut Olaf Sunde’s activities.

Regardless of whether he composes music for a particular geological formation in the mountains, or concentrating on his other great passion, infrastructure and transportation planning, the activity ultimately revolves around the same theme; thinking thoroughly about how things are interconnected, from overarching levels down to the most minute details.

1. But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the solar system – and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.
2. What if you never speed?
3. Verewigter Duft ist paradox
4. Otherwise the belief is that a kind of lense at the size of Turkey would make a spacecraft accelerate to half the speed of light in only two years. – But this prospect would also lie some time into the future.
5. Molladalen 160707 – Storevatnet

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13 min audio // 41 min video // 5 min video // In the news: NRK TV Norge Rundt // In the evening news: TV2 Nyhetene 29. Jul 2009 // Gallery 2007 // Gallery 2009 // Where on earth is Molladalen? // flip through score video // Audience info english // Publikumsinfo norsk // Basics

Molladalen 160707 - Storevatnet

Gallery 2007

Photo: Merethe Haseth

Where on earth is Molladalen?

Audience info (english)

Car from Oslo 571 km and 9 hours: E6 heading Trondheim to Dombås, then E136 heading Ålesund to Moa, then E39 heading Bergen to car ferry Solevåg-Festøy, continue E39 to Barstadvik. Turn left on small road (signs for Erdal), then private gravel toll road to Barstadsetra or Melbøsetra (until the roads ends).
Bus: Nor-way bussekspress or Timekspressen. Search for bus stop Festøya f.kai (4 km from Barstadvik). Ask the bus driver to stop in Barstadvik.
General public transport information: call 177 from within Møre og Romsdal county / +47 71 58 78 00 from elsewhere.
Airports:
Ålesund airport, Vigra. 45 km, a car ferry and 1:15 hours by car away.
Ørsta-Volda airport, Hovden. 39 km and 41 min by car away.
Accomodation: Reiselivsbasen

The hike is in variable and rugged terrain and starts with a 600 m climb: steep, narrow path in birch wood, grassy and heathery mountain sides, scree and a string to pass a short, steep stretch. Use trekking shoes and adequate clothing for a day in the mountains. Bring your own food for the day.
The hike to the first performance position is normalt a little more than 2 hours. The event is free – all you have to do is appear at Barstadsetra at the published time. The first concert is about three hours after published start time. We’ll be back by the cars after some eight hours.

Publikumsinfo (norsk)

Bil fra Oslo 571 km og 9 timer: E6 til Dombås, E136 til Moa, E39 sørover til ferga Solevåg-Festøy, videre til Barstadvik. Ta av mot Erdal (skiltet). Innerst i dalen grusveg (bomveg) til enten Barstadsetra eller Melbøsetra.
Buss med Nor-way bussekspress eller Timekspressen. Søk på Festøya f.kai (4 km fra Barstadvik). Bussene går gjennom og stopper i Barstadvik.
Generell ruteopplysning tlf 71 58 78 00 fra andre fylker enn Møre og Romsdal.
Flyplasser:
Ålesund lufthavn, Vigra. 45 km, en ferge og 1:15 time unna.
Ørsta-Volda lufthavn, Hovden. 39 km og 41 min unna.
Overnatting: Reiselivsbasen

Fotturen går i variert ulendt terreng, med 600 m stigning: bratt sti i bjørkeskau, gresslier, lyngbakke, ur og streng forbi et bratt bergparti. Fjellstøvler og turklær. Ta med niste. Oppstigningen tar normalt drøye to timer. Arrangementet er åpent, og det er bare å møte på Melbøsetra/Barstadsetra på publisert tid. Første konsert er ca. 2,5 timer etter publisert starttid. Regn med at hele turen tar litt over 8 timer.

Basics

Additional stuff: the four trombones need a mute each.
4 synchronized metronomes with minijack port and headsets.
The second of three sections is on the album But a machine, released 2008 by MERE. Recording from permiere 16. Jul 2007, performed by Marius Hesby, Petter Winroth, Arild Hillestad, Halvor Ovenstrøm.
Produced in cooperation with Ny Musikk.
Score at NMIC
Version 1.3 (15. Jul 2008)

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Basics

Guitar solo (6 string acoustic), scordatura E A C F H E
Accessories: a good capo and slidesteel (glass).
Recorded 20. Feb 2008 by Thomas Kjekstad in Sofienberg church, Oslo.
Album But a machine, released 2008 by MERE
Commissioned by Thomas Kjekstad
Score at NMIC
Version 2.0 (7. Aug 2007)

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Basics

3 (1. and 2. also picc, 3. also afl) – 3 (3. also C.A.) – 3 (3. also bscl) – 3 (3. also Cbsn)
4 – 3 (1. also picc) – 3 – 1
pno – hp – timp
4 perc
14 – 12 – 10 – 8 – 7
Score and parts at NMIC
Version 2.1 (2. Sep 2005)

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Poing is Rolf-Erik Nystrøm on saxophones, Frode Haltli on accordion and Håkon Thelin on double bass.

Apart from («But Brother Ass, there is a whole dimension lacking to what you say. How is it possible for one to convey this in Oxford English?») this album includes music by Eivind Buene, Øyvind Torvund, Maja S. K. Ratkje and a video by Nora Wjeck.

(«But Brother Ass, there is a whole dimension lacking to what you say…

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Basics

Accessories: 11 leaden weights to depress keys
Contact NMIC or sunde AT kosunde.no for the weights, or just have them made (instructions in the score).
Recorded 20. Feb 2008 by Ingfrid Breie Nyhus in Sofienberg Church, Oslo.
Album But a machine, released 2008 by MERE
Commissioned by Pål Størset/Ny Musikk
Score at NMIC
Version 1.3 (9. Dec 2003)
Norsk tittel:
Ellers tror man at en slags linse på størrelse med Tyrkia skal få romskip til å akselerere til halve lysets hastighet på bare to år. –Men også dette ligger nok noe frem i tid.

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With 120 small speakers suspended from a network of cables overhead, the spectator walks surrounded by the loudspeakers, hearing a continuous stochastically evolving harmonic structure of sinusoidal tones. By stepping on sensors on the floor, situations or changes are trigged adn blended with manipulated extracts of general noise from the hall outside.

Basics

120 small loudspeakers in 8 channels
bass loudspeaker
4 stereo amplifiers
mixing table
trigger module
sensors
microphone
computer
120 speakers with cables available with Peter Kristensson at the architectural branch of 
Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Gothenburg.

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Basics

Strings 10 8 6 4 2, alternatively 5 4 3 2 1
Score and parts at NMIC
Version 1.5 (24. Sep 2007)

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BUY

But a machine that was powerful enough…

Basics

Recorded 20. nov 2006 in Kampen kirke, Oslo.
Album But a machine, released 2008 by MERE
Commissioned by TWINE (Håkon Stene, Kjell-Tore Innervik)
Score at NMIC
Version 1.3 (23. Oct 2006)
Title in Norwegian (from Stephen Hawking’s [A Brief History of Time], 1988: Men en maskin som er kraftig nok til å akselerere partikler til den store forenede energi (en billiard gigaelektronvolt), må være så stor som solsystemet – og det er usannsynlig at noe slikt blir finansiert i det nåværende økonomiske klima.

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