Rural illusion

Rural illusion was written for Trio Vest in 2024:
Bb Clarinet, Alto Saxophone and Vibraphone.

1. movement: "Andante, quasi pavane" is based on a piano piece from a suite for piano called Snapshots 2 (Øyebllikksbilder).

2. movement: "Vivo". A found a sketch in a map on my computer that I thought could be something. It was a whirling idea I immediately thought I should try to bring alive. Here it is.

3. "Tranquillo". This music comes from Cantilena II - Mountain Song, a piece I composed ca 20 years ago for solo euphonium and wind ensemble. 

So all three movements are based on elements that I already had written.
It is not at all original to use your own ideas more than once. It is a necessary and common practice. They way the music is put together to become a new piece also give the music a completely new life.

I have been living in a rural district for many years. All my music since the start of my career have been composed here. However, talking about the rural district in a western country, living an hour or two outside a city, still have super fast internet, give me the feeling that this idea of the rural life in a modern country is more like an illusion.

At the same time I keep thinking that it might be something in my music that is as it is because I live in the country side. The question is hard to answer.
I could have been influenced by folk music. But I never worked closely with folk musicians. I only borrowed their tunes.
I could have written songs because my first musical love was music from singer-songwriters.
Then you move to a city to get educated. From rural life to city life. The stories of brave fishermen in open boats meet stories about the brave artists that went against establishment. 

I still think there is something in me that sounds differenet because I grew up where I grew up and I live where I live. Can you possibly hear it?