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FULLY STAGED/SPATIALISED WORKS

Posters and animation (1998)
3 flutes (all doubling piccolo and alto)
requires special lighting and use of space, and special programming

Music for Gilles’ Requiem (1999)
boys’ choir and orchestra
recorded by: Copenhagen Boys’ Choir and Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
CD: Ruo Records RRC 016

Some sounds for LL (1999)
oboe and assistant (lighting matches)

Music for MAPS (2000)
Site-related perambulatory music-theatre, including:
Katrine’s corridor, spatialised video-installation (7 projectors)
The timekeeping installation, for 21 mechanical metronomes, 10-15 electronic ones and 50 alarm-clocks
The pancake piece, for chef de cuisine, percussionist, and assistant
The recital piece, for pianist and musician, with reel-tape-machines, LP-player and CD-player
Chopin studies, for 8 pianists (4 pianos) in adjoining rooms
Ueno no ue (co-author Helle Thun), for solo voice
Ueno no shita, for solo cello
The bell-tower piece, for percussionist
The projector piece, for recorder, violin/viola, cello/double bass and percussionist, with slide and overhead projection (3 assistants)

All the time (2000)
instrumental theatre score for oboe, clavichord, theorbo, electric guitar, and several assistants
(70 minutes)

SEMI-STAGED WORKS
(can be performed in concert or fully-staged contexts)

The analysis of mortality (1999)
vocal quartet (SATB), each with a pair of scissors
(7 minutes)

Why linger you trembling in your shell? (1999)
percussion and violin, with egg-shells, down feathers and table-tennis balls
(10 minutes)

Recorder (2001)
bass recorder and two tape recorders
(CD version ca. 5 mins.; performance version 10-15 mins.)

Rhoda’s song (2001)
for female voice with hanging chimes
(1 minute)
text: Jane Bowles, from A Quarreling Pair

Harriet’s song (2001)
for viola and percussion, with text sung by violist (10 minutes)
text: Jane Bowles, from A Quarreling Pair

All that we cannot say (2001)
for oboe and cello, with 2 assistants lighting matches
(10 minutes)

With Hold (2002)
for flute, oboe and clarinet, with 3 musicians lighting matches, and props
(10 minutes)

The recital piece (2002)
for pianist and musician, with reel-tape-machines, LP-player and CD-player
(15 minutes)

CONCERT WORKS
LARGE ENSEMBLE/ORCHESTRAL

und gehe, gehe … gehe immer weiter (1994)
flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horn, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello
(8 minutes)

Machine à eau (1998)
solo cello and string ensemble (5.4.3.2.1)
(15 minutes)

Some reasons for hesitating (1999)
flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, keyboard (grand piano and synthesizer), percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass
(11 minutes) recorded by Nouvel Ensemble Moderne on ATMA ACD 2 2328

I greet you a thousand times (2005)
live amplified orchestra, with video projection, audio playback and sampler
video by Joachim Koester
(30 minutes)

We’d just got in from outer space when there was a knock at the kitchen door (2008)
orchestral miniature
for large orchestra, with 2 sheng soloists
(5 minutes)

5-10 PLAYERS

Recalling voices of the child (1993)
oboe, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello
(7 minutes)

In slow movement (1994)
flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, guitar, violin, cello
(14 minutes)

Water like a stone (1996)
flute, clarinet, percussion, celeste, harpsichord, guitar, violin, cello
(9 minutes)

Are there any subjective facts which God could never know? (1998)
flute, clarinet, percussion, guitar, cello
(12 minutes)

Stratigraph sequence (1998)
singer, with flute, clarinet, percussion, guitar, violin, cello
(12 minutes)

sagte er, dachte ich (1999)
flute, clarinet, viola, cello, piano, guitar, percussion
(10 minutes)

La cipolla di vetro (2001)
sackbutt (doubling recorder), baroque violin, bass gamba, baroque guitar, harpsichord and percussion
(8-10 mins.)

With Hold (2002)
for flute, oboe and clarinet, with 3 musicians lighting matches, and props
(15 minutes)

Inapparent air and aviary (2004)
for piccolo flute, E-flat clarinet, trombone, piano (with short-wave radio, metronome and bird-whistle), violin and cello
(10 minutes)

1-4 PLAYERS

Earth stood hard as iron (1997)
viola, guitar
(10 minutes)

Still now (1998)
violin, cello and piano
(20 minutes)

The analysis of mortality (1999)
vocal quartet (SATB), each with a pair of scissors
(7 minutes)

Strung (1999)
percussion, harp, viola and cello
(2 minutes)

Why linger you trembling in your shell? (1999)
percussion and violin, with egg-shells, down feathers and table-tennis balls
(10 minutes)

What happens when (1999)
soprano, bass recorder and guitar
(6 minutes)

The abiding mind (2000)
string quartet
(15 minutes)

Stills (2001)
clarinet and piano
(7 minutes)

Recorder (2001)
bass recorder and two tape recorders
(CD version ca. 5 mins.; performance version 10-15 mins.)

Rhoda’s song (2001)
for female voice with hanging chimes
(1 minute)
text: Jane Bowles, from A Quarreling Pair

All that we cannot say (2001)
for oboe and cello, with 2 assistants lighting matches
(10 minutes)

Harriet’s song (2001)
for viola and percussion, with text sung by violist
(10 minutes)
text: Jane Bowles, from A Quarreling Pair

Befall (2005)
for clarinet, piano, violin and cello
(5 minutes)
a re-interpretation and re-instrumentation of Chopin’s E minor piano prelude, op. 28
written for Ensemble Nordlys’ CD Recycle in aid of Dansk Flygtningehjælp

We alone (2005)
for oboe and 1 active audience member
(5 minutes)
written for Ensemble Chronophonie’s concept-concert Unter vier Ohren

AS WE KNOW (2010)
for speaker, percussion, violin, cello
(30 seconds)
text: Donald Rumsfeld

WORKS WITH VOICE

Stratigraph sequence (1998)
singer, with flute, clarinet, percussion, guitar, violin, cello
(12 minutes)

The analysis of mortality (1999)
vocal quartet (SATB), each with a pair of scissors
(7 minutes)

Music for Gilles’ Requiem (1999)
boys’ choir and orchestra
commissioned by Operanord with additional funds from the Danish National Arts Foundation
recorded by Copenhagen Boys’ Choir and Danish Radio Concert Orchestra (cond. Bo Holten) on Ruo Records CD RRC 016

What happens when (1999)
soprano, bass recorder and guitar
(6 minutes)

Rhoda’s song (2001)
for female voice (preferably middle-aged, not classically-trained, American) with hanging chimes
(1 minute)
text: Jane Bowles, from A Quarreling Pair

Harriet’s song (2001)
for viola and percussion, with sung text (10 minutes)
text: Jane Bowles, from A Quarreling Pair

Ikke et hjem (2007)
for baritone, guitar and audio playback (10 minutes)
text: Alen Meskovic

Welche Autos werden wir in 25 Jahren fahren? (2009)
for 2 female vocalists with electronics, flute, percussion (10 minutes)

As we know (2010)
for speaker, percussion, violin, cello
(30 seconds)
text: Donald Rumsfeld

Mein Leben (2010)
for bass/bass-baritone, bass/contrabass clarinet, percussion, cello, piano, with electronics (3 minutes)
text: Ursula Andkjær Olsen

Jeg er Vejen (2010)
for 2 speakers, violin and cello (3 minutes)
text: Ursula Andkjær Olsen

Nicht Schnell (2010)
for piano, bass/contrabass clarinet, percussion, violin, cello, audio playback, electronics (3 minutes)