Kristofer Svensson: Violin Works @ Yeshin Norbu
Three works for violin by Kristofer Svensson performed by Maya Bennardo.
Förglömda toner (World premiere)
Duk med broderi och bordets kant
Anantachāritra, for violin and sustained tones (World premiere)
Doors open at 3pm for food (included in ticket price)
Concert starts 4pm.
This event is part of a series of four intimate concerts at Yeshin Norbu Meditation Centre in Stockholm featuring original work by artists who engage in meditation practices across a variety of Buddhist traditions.
About the pieces:
The three pieces for violin performed by Maya Bennardo in this concert highlight three different ways of relating to emptiness. The first piece, ‘Förglömda toner’ (Forgotten tones), uses quiet, plain tones articulated through sparse melodic variations and suspended over contrasting, extended silences. The second piece, ‘Duk med broderi och bordets kant’ (Embroidered cloth and table’s edge), seeks instead to establish a continuum between pure tones and indeterminacy by moving between silence, hushed white noises, noiseful half-harmonics, harmonics, and simple tones. The third piece, ‘Anantachāritra’ (Boundless practice), takes a different approach and has the violin play against a sustained sound, slowly nudging different nodes to reveal the background environment as an interconnected, lyrical, resonant structure.