To hear on Sunday 16 and 23 February 2014, 2pm - 9pm:
Zwischen Hier & Jetzt
specially composed for ohrenhoch (Premiere)
by Ingvar Loco Nordin
Ingvar Loco Nordin on "Zwischen Hier & Jetzt" [135 min.]:
The extended work you hear from me at ohrenhoch is composed by me especially for ohrenhoch, but in many ways it reflects my usual way of working with sound. I carry with me a Zoom recorder, which is cheap enough to be able to bang around in all kinds of weather and situations, while still being quite good, or, should I say, well enough for my purposes. It has enabled me to catch all kinds of sounds that I then can work with in various sound soft wares in the Mac, for final destinations in complete works of sound art.
Many of the sounds heard in Zwischen Hier & Jetzt originate on my woman’s farm up in Niemisel, a small village in the far north of Sweden, in the District of Northbothnia. Other sounds in Zwischen Hier & Jetzt come from a broken, destroyed piano – a Rösler upright piano – that I and a friend found abandoned on an industrial lot for imminent transport to a garbage dump. I have listened a lot to Australian ruined piano fiend Ross Bolleter, so recording this Rösler wreck felt very natural, and absolutely necessary. It was cold and took a stubborn mind to make these recordings in the dark and several minus degrees, with a headlamp lighting the scene. Only the soundboard remained. The keys were spread out on the asphalt ground. Even though so much sound comes out of that soundboard, the sound is exactly as it was, with no electronics invested in the recording, and no cuts being done.
Ingvar Loco Nordin
When this work is presented at ohrenhoch, I will just have turned 65. I don’t know what this means. To many others it seems to mean retirement, tiredness and all kinds of negativity. I don’t fit into that at all. For one thing, I will continue my work as a crime investigator with the Swedish Police for at least two more years, and I am as active as ever, if not even more, with training on my carbon racing bike, at least 30 kilometers each night after work, either outside, or inside on rollers, and when the snow comes I train on skis too.I am a passionate mountain hiker in Lapland, and love climbing.
I keep composing works you would probably call sound art pieces. That’s good enough. I use any source available to me for composing, and do not limit myself in that sense. The world is an open project, and so is life.Much of my time goes into reading about modern science, cosmology, quantum physics, astronomy, biology, history and so forth, and I dwell long hours in poetry books and philosophy, while also studying Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhism in general, not as a religion, but as a way to attune your mind to the Universe and Existence in a practical way.I also write, with a professional ambition driving me, and right now I am working on a novel.