Excerpt from “Og aldri skal vi skiljast” by Jon Fosse.

June 2nd, 2010

Excerpt from Og aldri skal vi skiljast by Jon Fosse.

Det Norske Samlaget 1994 – ISBN: 9788252143515

Nei

Nei det går ikkje

Nei no må eg gi meg

for dette går ikkje

Og det er heller ikkje nokon grunn for at det skal gå

heller

Det er ikkje nokon grunn for det

Ingen grunn

Det

Det er ingen grunn

Og det er berre dumt

Og at det går an

Det går ikkje an å vere slik

Eg er ikkje slik

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The score – what’s it all about?

May 12th, 2010

A couple of years ago I proclaimed that the score wasn’t important to me. It was merely an aid for memorizing. Sound was everything – paper was nothing.
During these last couple of years I have focused on working closely with the performers, and I have developed the pieces as sound without the assistance of traditional musical notation.
I still kind of agree with my old claims, sound is everything, but I now have to admit that there are results and benefits that can be more easily produced with properly notated scores than without them. What really opened my eyes to these benefits was the incomplete and scarce documentation from one of my finished projects; the performance instruction were useless for someone who hadn’t been a part of the process.
So, I made a tough decision: To start making “real” scores again. Les mer…/Read more…

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