Music, chaos & beauty
Christer Lindwall is a composer of strong integrity and artistic profile whose intricate music is often based on non-musical references such as visual art, physics and philosophy. In the concert performance Music, chaos & beauty, the essayist and translator John Swedenmark also participates with reflections and personal comments on both the music and the collaboration between Christer Lindwall and the musicians.
Program:
Die Menshen sind Engel und leben im Himmel (violin & recorder 2013).
This music is inspired by the photomontage of the German artist Raoul Hausman (1886-1971): Die Menschen sind Engel und leben im Himmel – Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (deutsche-digitale- bibliothek.de)
entanglement (solo violin 2022–23)
The work is based on quantum physics. ‘Entanglement is a quantum physical phenomenon. When particles are entangled, changes to one of the particles will immediately cause the properties of the other particles to change, regardless of their distance.
Skillnadens arkitektur (2 violins & reciter 2019–20)
In musical form, the piece deals with repetition and reiteration, mimesis and identity, with textual quotations from authors from different disciplines: fiction, psychoanalysis, philosophy.