Mats Gustafsson

• GATEFOLD DIGIPACK EDITION

Conducted by Mats Gustafsson for two 9 piece chamber ensembles, 4 soloists, tape machine, turntable. Recorded at the Avant Art festival, Warsaw, Poland, 2022. The monumental composition for 27 musicians by Swedish saxophonist, improviser and composer Mats Gustafsson is an in-depth exploration and continuation of the previous piece Hidros o.T. (2019), commissioned by NyMusikk Trondheim, inspired by the mirrored forms and visual structures of artist Mathias Pöschl.

Controlling 3 different groups of instruments (two 9-member “mirror” ensembles: Polish and Norwegian, a group of soloists and electronics), the conductor will use 3 types of graphics and different conducting methods. The composition will be performed by the conductor in the form of Instant Conducting, where tempo, dynamics, density and other musical parameters is be controlled by predetermined rules.

PERSONNEL:

• Soloists:
• Anders Nyqvist - (trumpets (slide, piccolo)
• Colin Stetson - (amplified bass saxophone)
• Hedvig Mollestad - (guitar)
• Per-Åke Holmlander - (tuba)
• Jerome Noetinger - (revox tape machines)
• Dieb13 - (turntables)
• Matts Gustafsson - (conductor)

• NyMusikk Trondheim:
• Eira Bjørnstad Foss - (violin)
• Matilda Rolfsson - (bass drum)
• Lars Ove Fossheim - (guitar)
• Michael F. Duch -( bass)
• Øyvind Engen - (cello)
• Kyrre Laastad - (drums and electronics)
• Nicolas Leirtrø - (bass)
• Daniel Formo - (organ, prepared piano)
• Ida Løvli Hidle - (accordion)

• Avant Art Ensemble:
• Teoniki Rozynek - (violin)
• Dominika Korzeniecka - (bass drum)
• Szymon Wójcik - (guitar, electronics)
• Rafal Rózalski - (bass)
• Magdalena Bojanowicz - (cello)
• Qba Janicki - (drums and electronics)
• Pawel Romanczuk - (bass)
• Barbara Drazkov - (organ, prepared piano)
• Zbigniew Chojnacki - (accordion)

Recorded at Avant Art Festival, Warsaw, Poland, 2022

TRACKS:

• 01. INTRO
• 02. MIRRORS 1
• 03. SHADOWS 1
• 04. ECHOES 1
• 05. REFLECTION
• 06. ECHOES 2
• 07. SHADOWS 2
• 08. MIRRORS 2
• 09. OUTRO