Open Form. An Expanded Performer´s Role.

Else Olsen Storesund

Open form is a designation on a type of composition that is in some degree open. It is also a term in relation to understanding a genre. This means that I do not include for example Bach´s Die Kunst der Fuge (circa 1740), but Stockhausen´s Aus den sieben Tagen (1968) could be included. This project, however, is centered around the composers from The New York Scool, and composers related to The New York School: Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman and Cornelius Cardew. An Open form composition is graphic, text- or number-based. It may also be a combination of these three notational techniques and/or in combination with conventional staff line-notation.

Profil av Else Olsen S from Emanuel Nordrum on Vimeo.

Liquid Vapor (2009), Else Olsen S.

A part of the Open Form Festival, 2009

World Premiere 26 November 2009, at The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo, performance in the Foyer.

The work is inspired by the graphics of Signe Kjelstrup and her research on water, published as Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics of Heterogenous Systems (2008).

Performers:

Pauline Oliveros, accordion and EIS

Guro Moe, double bass

Maja Ratkje, voice and theremin

Victoria Johnson, el-violin

Alexander Refsum Jensenius, electronics

Yoann Pencolé, dolls

Yngvild Aspeli, solls

Kyrre Heldal Karlsen, lights

Else Olsen S., prepared piano,

The Toy Orchestra

Exerpts from Interpretation notes

Links:

The Norwegan National Opera & ballet

Deep Listening

Presentation from ARJ

Forskningsraadet

UIO

Liquid Vapor(2009)
Else Olsen S.

For any performer or ensemble

Material provided:
Forms
Elements
Installations

Time:

Decide amount of time before each interpretation.

Instructions:
Use the provided material for interpretation. The different forms may be used separately or together, side by side or as different layers. Use the different elements the same way. Make installations if wanted. As few or many forms, elements or installations may be used.Use water and vapor in some way at some time in the performance.

Else Olsen S., 2009, Bakka

Note:
This piece is inspired by the research by Kjelstrup and Bedeaux, published in Nonequilibrium
thermodynamics of Heterogeneous Systems, Oslo, 2008.

Forms

1. Forms
2. Popcorn