Workography - Magnus Olsen Majmon

Audio-works (“tape-works”)

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Score music (with performative/impro acts)

  

Impermanence. Emptiness. – A song on Nothing. Written 2006.

Score-composition

Vocal, Flute, Oboe, Barytone Sax, Tuba, Piano, CD-track.

Not yet performed.

 

Le cabanon. Son emplacement. Attention. Aller. Written 2005.
Score/impro/performative work written for Copenhagen Art Ensembles ‘Purple Space – Surround’ concert.
Piano (inside/conventional/white mask), Percussion (gongs/snaredrum/ drumset/white mask), doublebass (bow/white mask), laptop (audiotrack/ surround/white mask), 2xtrumpets, sopranosax, bass-clarinet, barytonesax, tenor- and basstrombone. Musicians are placed different places in the concert-hall. 6 loud-speakers are placed beside the audience and 2 on a balcony.

Performed by Copenhagen Art Ensemble , Litteraturhaus 2005.

 

Relative Freedom deconstructed. Written 2005.

Very open and conceptual score/workshop for all instruments/constellations.

Not yet peformed.

 

Hell o Moll y Argh pst Shh. Written 2003

Score-composition for small ensemble

Bass clarinet/voice, cello/voice, piano, glocken/glockenspiel/voice/4 feng gongs/4toms/bass drum very deep/mobilephones, Violin/voice.

Performed by Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen , Komponisternes Efterårskoncert, Rundetårn 2003

 

Klangsøjler m.m. Written 2003

Score/impro work for mixed ensemble

Trumpet, electric guitar, drums, violin, bratch, cello, sopranosax

Performed by Trio Trash, string-trio and soprano-sax. Jazzhouse 2003

 

Grænsekryds som tonalt produkt.Written 2002

Score/impro work for mixed ensemble

Trumpet/voc., electric guitar/voc., drums/voc., violin/voc., bratch/voc., cello/voc., sopranosax/voc.

Performed and recorded by Trio Trash, string-trio and soprano-sax.

 

Four Fragments with Noise Intermezzos. Written 2002.

Score/impro work solo-percussion/drumset.

Performed and recorded by the composer. Commisioned for Fever Pitch compilation cd.


Sagte vertikal dalen igennem slørede stråler
. Written 2002.

Score/improwork for jazzensemble.

2 x tenorsaxes, electric guitar, doublebass, drums

Performed and recorded by Fumier.

 

Happening/performance/hybrid/mixed media/score/conceptual

Maria Kirken - Music written 2009

A site specific dance-performance. Two multimedia  art shows took place in Maria Kirken 09-10-09.

 

Empty and Naked like the Sky  Written 2007.

8 ghettoblasters, a conducter and audience moving through changing cityscapes on the outskirts of Swedish city Malmø.

A work commisioned for ‘The Ghettoblaster Ensemble’. Premiere Summer 2008.

 

Danish National Anthem in Arabic. Work in progress 2007/2008

An audio-performative comment to the danish culture debate (kultur-kanon).

 

Bridge music. Work in progress 2007/2008

Total-artwork-act with music, performance, chance-outdoor-view/sounds. A speciel bridge is found for the purpose.

 

In memoriam Ungeren. Written 2007.

A performer stands in yoga-posture ‘headstand’ (head down/legs up) in a dark room with a dolls house-like carton on his feet. Strange sounds coming from speakers. This posture is hold for app. 5 min. In the end the carton falls and smashes.

 

Performance with doorbells, sparkler and... Written 2005.

A mechanical doorbell mounted on a performers head. Performer in white wearing a white mask. Moving through a dark concerthall with lightening sparklers in his hand, stopping up, staring at the audience. Strange sounds coming from speakers around.

Performed by the composer. Literaturhaus 2005.

 

Work for feedjars, hurdy-gurdy spirit and... Written 2005.

Performed by the composer. Literaturhaus 2005.

 

Work for sampler, recitation and... Written 2005.

Performed by the composer. Literaturhaus 2005.


Work for doorbell, balloons and electronics
Written 2005.

Performed by the composer and three helpers to smash balloons and blow in whistles.


Discourse upon clapping
 Written 2005.

Audio-track / performative act discussing whether clapping is a nice thing to do in relation to concerts.

Performed by 2 speakers after a concert. Literaturhaus 2005.


Audelà l’inconnu (horisontal). Audio-video version. Written 2005.

A co-audiovisuel project / musicvideo [35 min.] with Søren Brygman Poulsen.

Premiered Literaturhaus 2005.

 

Kollektiv Sølvpapirs-sceance + Ordlydsevent.Written 2004.

A huge room where the audience produces sound by softly pressing some balls of tinfoil and baking paper. Strange sound coming out. Muting into a performative game of words.

Performed by Trio Trash and audience. Plan B’s theater-room 2004.

 

Other works (older impro/score for small combos)

6ti Fantastique, An Ottoman Chronicle(Klezmer mode), argh shh, Atonalt lys over Toscana, Bredde, Lizardy, Mondial splintren, Ode til Presiner, Og blomsten mørknedes, Quintum Arabicum, Royal Depression, Skizo,Slendren, Tune 35, You don’t know where Mars is.

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