Fabian Svensson (1980-)

Tillvaratagna effekter [approx. Found objects]

1. Badinerie
2. Habanera
3. Fraktaler
4. Offrad vår
5. Såsom horn
6. Crescendo
7. Nutida musik
8. Salig vandring
9. Pizzicato
10. Glissando
11. Oktaver
12. Svensk export
13. Intermezzo
14. Missförstått öde
15. Aria
16. Unison
17. Miniatyr
18. Violinkonsert
19. Haiku
20. KV. 550
21. Timpani
22. Alla turca
23. Skalor
24. Utan titel
25. Final

Year of composition: 2006
Work category: Chamber ensemble (7 or more instruments)
First performed: 29 September, 2006 at the TeaterStudio Lederman in Stockholm. Karin Hellqvist (soloist), My Eklund, Katarina Widell, Fabian Svensson, Johan Ullén, John Viklund, Magnus Andersson, Pascal Jardry, Stefan Lundgren, Mikael Karlsson, Jon Mannikoff, Danjel Röhr, Kristofer Sundström, and Martin Welander conducted by Tove Waldetoft
Duration: 60 min

Instrumentation

Violin solo, 2 sopranino recorders (both doubling on soprano recorder), 2 melodicas, 6 electric guitars, 2 bass guitars, timpani

Examples of printed editions

Svensk Musik, Stockholm 2007

Description of work

Work comment

Tillvaratagna effekter is a redefinition of the concept "violin concerto", taking as its point of departure a minimalist tradition, but sampling freely from music history and not letting itself be bound by any genre. It is life-loving and shamelessly hedonistic, yet strictly structured music.

The title of the work translates, very roughly, to Lost and Found, and the music concerns itself with transformations of something well-known into something unknown: Melodies get stuck or are played simultaneously at different speeds; scales keep ascending beyond all reasonability; musical practices get exaggerated and distorted.

This hour-long work consists of one movement in each major and minor key, and a final movement going through all the 24 keys.