ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Marcus Fjellström -- Silver Mansion Trauma</title> <style type="text/css"> html {overflow-y: scroll;} body {background-color:#151d37; margin-top:3px;} body, p, h1, h2, td, a {color:#eeeeff} body, p, td {font-size:10px; font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,helve,sans-serif;font-align:left;} h1 {font-size:11px; font-style:bold} h2 {font-size:10px; font-style:bold} a {text-decoration:none} </style> </head> <body> <!-- PANELEN START --> <table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" valign="top"> <tr height="138"> <td width="800"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" valign="top"> <tr height="39"> <td width="800" colspan="4"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr1_topborder.gif"></td></tr> <tr height="32"> <td width="17" rowspan="2"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr234_leftborder.gif"></td> <td width="116" rowspan="2"><a href="../index.html"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr2_stamp.gif" border="0" alt="home"></a></td> <td width="651"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" valign="top"> <tr height="32"> <td width="231"><a href="../about.html"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr2_marcus.gif" border="0" alt="Marcus Fjellström"></a></td> <td width="168" rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.kafkagarden.com/"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr23_kafkacom.gif" border="0" alt="home"></a></td> <td width="252" rowspan="2"><a href="../music.html" target="_blank"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr23_music.gif" border="0" alt="music examples"></a></td> <tr height="32"> <td width="231"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr3_publ.gif"></td></tr> </table> </td> <td width="16" rowspan="2"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr234_rightborder.gif"></td></tr> <tr height="24"> <td width="651"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" valign="top"> <td width="122"><a href="../about.html"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr4_3_about.gif" border="0" alt="about"></a></td> <td width="116"><a href="../news.html"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr4_4_news.gif" border="0" alt="news"></a></td> <td width="126"><a href="../works.html"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr4_5_works.gif" border="0" alt="works"></a></td> <td width="139"><a href="../garden.html"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr4_6_garden.gif" border="0" alt="garden"></a></td> <td width="148"><a href="../contact.html"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr4_7_contact.gif" border="0" alt="contact"></a></td></tr> </table> </td> <tr height="11"> <td width="800" colspan="4"><img src="../gfx_panel/pr5_bottomborder.gif"></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- PANELEN END --> <!-- PANEL WIDTH START --> <table align="center" width="640" border=0> <td width="640"> <br /> <!-- CONTENTS START --> <a href="smt_score.html" target="_blank"><img src="smt_score_small.gif" align="right" width="284" height="200" vspace="7" hspace="24" border="0" alt="" /></a> <h2>SILVER MANSION TRAUMA (2002)</h2> <p>Silver Mansion Trauma was written for and dedicated to American percussionist Don Nichols, who premiered it at the 3030 venue in Chicago, USA in November 2002.</p> <p>I often find that the situation of a solo musician playing to an EAM tape on stage runs the risk of becoming dreary, so I have an interest in establishing a clear and specific relationship between the human performer and the electronic music that comes across to the audience. In this case, I wanted to depict the percussionist as an illustionist or an 'alchemist of the spiritual' as it were, manifesting mirror images of his/her percussion playing in the EAM ambience. There's a "Pandora's Box" reference here as well, and what appears to be playful at first, turns out to be a deadly serious ritual as the piece progresses.</p> <p>The piece won me a trip to Oslo in 2003, where I participated in the Nordic UNM festival for contemporary music and discussed the piece in an hour-long masterclass with legendary composer Brian Ferneyhough. Fun! (Our approaches to composition couldn't be more different, but it made for a very interesting discussion.) 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