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Unni Løvlid (NMH) and Marianne Baudouin Lie (NTNU), from Norwegian traditional and classical/contemporary music backgrounds, collaborate to explore tonality's diversity, leveraging their distinct practices to enhance inner ear training and pedagogical methods. Their project aims to develop a shared verbal language and deepen collective understanding of varied tonalities, challenging the standardization of tonality in music. By internalizing diverse tonalities through the inner ear, they seek to freely interpret and create music, fostering new artistic insights for both composed and improvised works. In 2021, they partnered with five composers—Sven Lyder Kahrs, Lasse Thoresen, Karin Rehnqvist, Lene Grenager, Ole Henrik Moe, and Jon Øivind Ness—to create new compositions and improvisations centered on tonality, inspired by folk music. The duo investigates how folk singers and classical instrumentalists adapt to new listening and auditive methods, exploring microtonality, quarter tones, and pure intervals. Through artistic research and educational efforts, they aim to develop methods to embody microtonality naturally, benefiting performers, students, and the broader musical community. The project invites collaboration with composers, ear training experts, and music theorists to inspire new music and deepen tonal understanding, contributing to artistic development and a richer musical discourse.
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Sven Lyder Kahrs
Facklorna -Edith Södergran 1892-1923
Jag vill tända mina facklor över jorden.
Min fackla skall stå
på varje nattlig gård
i alperna, där luften är välsignelse,
i tundrorna, där himlen är melankoli.
O min fackla, lys i ansiktet på den förskräckta, den förgråtna, den förmörkade, den förorenade.
En mild gud räcker er sin hand:
utan skönhet lever människan icke en sekund.
Fra diktsamlingen «Rosenaltaret» 1919
