THURÍDUR JÓNSDÓTTIR
"FLOW AND FUSION" 2002
3122Sax2 – 2210 – 3 Perc – MIDI Keyboard – Str
12´
Work Introduction
As a result of her receiving the first prize in the composition competition of the Zucchelli Foundation in Bologna Thuridur Jonsdottir was commissioned to write this work for orchestra, which was premiered in February 2002. The piece makes use of an ordinary orchestra plus saxophones but with the addition of electronic sounds so as to add a certain perspective to the sound mass. The electronic sounds are thus not in a main role. They are all derived from recordings of the instruments of the orchestra and should only be considered as an addition or distortion of the concert hall’s acoustics. Flow and Fusion was performed by the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra on the Dark Music Days festival in 2004 and subsequently nominated for the Icelandic Music Price and selected by the International Rostrum of composers (UNESCO) in Paris the same year. Flow and fusion was nominated for the Nordic music price 2006
“One of the images I had in mind while writing Flow and Fusion were different streams of glowing hot magma coming together in one surging lava-flow which cools down, becomes a rock…and echoes”.