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Spektralkompass - Sterbendes Hertz

by Håkon Thelin

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about

After three decades of fooling around with the double bass, my two new releases of bass music (Random Partials/Twinings and Spektralkompass/Sterbendes Hertz) present a seismic change of style, a massacre of elements where everything but the pure essence has been shaved away.

This is a music of study, research, of purely personal interests in sound and technique. It doesn’t portray emotions, and it doesn’t address or describe anything outside itself (the most poetic often lies in the work titles). Everything in these new pieces is cut down to the bone. What left is sound and technique.

And extremes. I’ve always been interested in idiomaticity on the double bass, in “techniques that originate from the instrument itself” (to quote my own reflection from a bygone era in a text called A Folk Music for the Double Bass). But to blur this a bit I want to add idiosyncratic to the idiomatic. Because for me, the golden chest is the one that contains personal and individual rediscoveries of sounds and techniques belonging to the old idioms. By exploring the common-use, I can perhaps walk down the path with others. A path that I rarely step off, but constantly expand the boundaries of, setting new extremes. And pushing the limits, in one way or another, is an absolute necessity in my practice.

In the past I’ve labeled my music contemporary music, plain and simple, but in the process of preparing the releases on Bandcamp, I found it difficult to label/tag them correctly. Is it experimental music, classical contemporary, avantgarde, experimental-avantgarde, classical-avantgarde, minimalism? Browsing the different genres on Bandcamp and checking out the different artists there hasn’t really given me many clues. For example, these pieces might have all the characteristics of minimal music, in fact they are extremely minimalistic, yet I don’t think they fit into the idiom of minimalism. And so on.

The insistence on extremes and the problems of placing the music within a clear genre is making my work a little bit less accessible for both performers and listeners. Yet, this music represents a radical change in direction for me, and hopefully it will gradually find its place among my audience as well.

Finally, as listeners we must of course approach the pieces differently than what I have written about so far. But that’s all up to you now.

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released March 24, 2023

Håkon Thelin: Double Basses, Sine Tones
Natasha Barrett: Logarithmic Sine Tone Glissando (Spektralkompass)

Recorded by Håkon Thelin at Kleine Eichphilharmonie, Nesodden, Norway
Produced by Håkon Thelin
Edited and Mixed by Håkon Thelin
Mastered by Morgan Nicolaysen
Cover art by A.I.

Released by Peninsula Audio Records

Made with the support of Norsk Komponistforening, Norsk Kulturfond/Kulturrådet

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Music released by Norwegian bass player and composer Håkon Thelin /// Peninsula Audio Records - label for experimental double bass music

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