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Eight Days For You by Jonny Axelsson

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Eight Days For You (2004) by Jonny Axelsson

Eight Days For You was composed in 2004, in connection to a collaboration with the Choreographer Efva Lilja along with a series of performances, all with a similar basic mood. The dancers were floating in the air hanging in harnesses or ropes, with no contact to the ground or floor, something which gives a completely different sense of weight and balance. My starting point was in some way to transfer this feeling of “floating in the air” into music, to create some kind of “airy” music where the perception of time becomes fuzzy. On a Vibraphone it is possible to play very long sustained sounds, but also possible to dampen and play very short “secco” sound. The musical material consists of eight pairs of intervals, combined and distributed by several different musical textures. There are three kinds of basic musical materials that sometimes occurs at the same time and then creates several musical layers:
- chords (slow),
- groups of phrases (fast),
- staccatto (short sounds).
My Grandfather would sometimes use descriptions of time in fuzzy terms, such as: “it will happen on Thursday eight days”, meaning that the event will not be on the coming Thursday but the week after. The title carries a small reference to this. Many times I have experienced how differently one perceives time when it comes to music, both as a listener and as a performer. Time involves many parameters and does not always allow to be divided just into seconds, minutes and hours. There is a psychological parameter which also have effect on longer time spans. The experience of a summer time period can vary a lot from one year to another, similarly some years in life can disappear from your consciousness whereas others are perceived as lasting much longer, when looking back to them.

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from Pandemic Respite, released December 22, 2022

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Jonny Axelsson Stockholm, Sweden

As a composer JA received commissions from various ensembles, choreographers, filmmakers, institutions. Member of the Swedish Composers Association, he achieved great recognition as a percussionist, performing all over the world and featured on numerous CDs. Experienced interpreter and improviser he developed his own “musical voice” with great esthetical width and influences from several genres. ... more

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