Anna Svensdotter
Flutist
Alpha Waves (SFZ records) was recorded 2011-12 at Studio Epidemin in Göteborg.
Music for solo flute and electronics by Swedish composers: Malin Bång, Ida Lundén, Daniel M Karlsson, Mirjam Tally, Fredrik Österling, Benjamin Staern, Tony Blomdahl and Paul Bothén.
Paula af Malmborg Ward about Anna and the CD:
The extended flute
As wrong as it is to state that humankind by nature has one temperament, one attitude, or acts in one specific manner in all situations, it is just as difficult to answer the question: how does a flute sound? Anna Svensdotter is something as exclusive as a Swedish flutist who has specialised in newly written music. Always inquisitive about the way the flute and electronics give and take from one another in a musical collaboration, she has a place all of her own among performers of the new flute repertoire.
In the ensembles L’Orchestre Disparu, (flute, voice, live electronics, live video), Trio Ek/Janson/Svensdotter (voice, double bass, flute), and the duo SkarvFX, (flute/electronics and double bass/electronics), Anna delves into new modes of expression with her fellow musicians. On this CD, where most of the works were written directly for her, she plays in an ensemble all by herself. All the registers of the flute conjure the weight of destiny and the twitter of play all at once. Sometimes the extraneous sounds are the main point and one’s perspective is turned inside out, sometimes the material changes slowly, like when a music box successively trips out of phase.
A sort of musical democracy is created, where all the sound impulses, no matter their origin, form a whole, and the breathing becomes the listener’s own.
So-- how does a flute sound?
Paula af Malmborg Ward, composer (translation: George Kentros)
Alpha Waves is available at Bo Ejeby förlag>>
