
Democratic Sound
Simon Steen-Andersen presents a thoroughly intellectual approach, but he also makes room for the quiet and the fragile. He can call attention to echoes of dust and breath.
Simon Steen-Andersen presents a thoroughly intellectual approach, but he also makes room for the quiet and the fragile. He can call attention to echoes of dust and breath.
Repetition is never just the same thing twice. In the works of Simon Steen-Andersen repetition only appears due to a complex interplay with the unrepeatable.
Rasmus Holmboe undersøger i denne artikel, hvordan Simon Steen-Andersen anvender visuelle elementer som et kommunikerende og konkret kompositionsmateriale.
"Midt i alt dette meget gennemtænkte findes der også hos komponisten en side, som appellerer til følelser og sanselighed. En tålmodighed til at se ét element ad gangen."
En gentagelse er aldrig bare det samme to gange. I Simon Steen-Andersens værker træder gentagelsen frem netop i kraft af samspillet med det uigentagelige.
Risto Holopainen discusses notions of automated composition and autonomous instruments - and outlines a distinction between human and non-human agents.