{"product_id":"2250587","title":"Jan Martin Smordal - My Favorite Thing [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 2015-2017, Smordal composed 3 works under the name 'My Favorite Thing', consisting of music for the percussion trio Pinquins (MFT 1), Ensemble neoN (MFT 2), and the Broadcasting Orchestra (MFT 3). Based on interviews with all participating performers, Smordal has interpreted the performers' formative encounters with music from childhood. The works consist of direct quotations, abstracted reflections and free retellings.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmordal has long been concerned with mechanisms behind herd behaviour, reflex movements, self-standing patterns and spontaneous social dynamics. Thoughts about such phenomena, and concretizing and interpreting such phenomena as sound and flow, have been the springboard for much of my work over the past 10 years. On this release you can hear an early example of this, where an individual's short-term memory forms an entire swarm, 'Flock of me' played by Yumi Murakami.\u003c\/p\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe disc also contains another early work 'less-sense'. The piece was written for and performed by Silje Aker Johnsen, Kristine Tjogersen and Ane Marthe Sorlien Holen. Through a text fragment by Augustine, the I-person tries to remove his former self, gradually by unraveling his own note.\u003c\/p\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJan Martin Smordal (b.1978) is a composer and performer. He is also a member and co-founder of Ensemble neoN, an award-winning new music collective that initiates and implements projects internationally. Sm\\xf8rdal is an established composer with works for orchestra and chamber ensembles, in addition to installations, choral works and improvisations in various forms. He is co-recipient of a number of Spellemannprize, and in 2022 received Arne Nordheim's Composer's Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eless-sense (no intro)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Favorite Thing 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Favorite Thing 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Favorite Thing 3: I. -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. another memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. memory of major - minor, pulses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. arpeggios, beats\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV. memory of major - minor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...something about a bird\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlock of Me\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54420740669825,"sku":"2250587","price":17.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/7090020182988.jpg?v=1750620999","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/2250587","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}