In the summer of 2023 I had a residency at EMS in Stockholm. Since I was in Stockholm I wanted to play with reed player Isak Hedtjärn. We have previously played together both as a duo and in larger ensembles, mostly improvised music.
Isak knows the music of Gössa Anders very well. He is a thorough transcriber and pays close attention to all the details of his playing which he manages to adopt to his clarinet. So we decided to work with a few recordings of Gössa Anders as a starting point. We unfortunately did not plan to meet a long time in advance so I had very limited time to transcribe and learn the tunes.
As Isak was very keen on trying out multitracking and other studio-based techniques coupled with the fact that we were not rehearsing for any concert I quickly let go of my dogma of only playing real time music.
It is yet to be decide wether we will release anything from this recording session. If we do, I would consider it a part of the artistic outcome of this project.
(next: concerts)