Ahornfelder: Håkon Stene: Etude Begone Badum (CD) Bone Alphabet (CD Single)

Håkon Stene:
Etude Begone Badum (CD)
Bone Alphabet (CD Single)

Label: Ahornfelder
Catalogue Number: AH25 + AH 26
Release Date: October 28th 2013
Format: CD + Digital Download
Packaging: 6-sided Digipack
Barcode: 708527000311 + 708527000366
Distributed by A-Musik (EU), Plop (JP), Darla (US)

Etude Begone Badum (CD Album):
1. Lars Petter Hagen - Study #1 in Self-Imposed Tristesse (02:07)
2. Marko Ciciliani - Black Horizon (21:26)
3. Lars Petter Hagen - Study #2 in Self-Imposed Tristesse (01:06)
4. Alvin Lucier - Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (11:03)
5. Lars Petter Hagen - Study #3 in Self-Imposed Tristesse (01:45)
6. Michael Pisaro - Ricefall (1) (17:42)

The album Etude Begone Badum presents works by composers Alvin Lucier (US), Marko Ciciliani
(GER/CRO) and Michael Pisaro (US), linked together by Norwegian Lars Petter Hagen’s poetic,
electroacoustic intermezzi. The works employ personal, experimental and conceptual approaches to
sound production, suggesting the development of a "post-percussive" practice – the topic of Håkon
Stene’s ongoing Artistic Research Project “Ceci n'est pas un tambour – developing the role of the
multidisciplinary performer”. This development eschews traditional playing techniques, substituting
an open-ended concept wherein any sound producing object may be played in any manner
imaginable.

Bone Alphabet (CD Single):
1. Brian Ferneyhough - Bone Alphabet
2. Sir Duperman - Wizard & Os

One of the most controversial composers on the New Music scene in the last thirty years, Brian
Ferneyhough remains faithful to the idea of composition and interpretation as utopian, intellectually
Olympian disciplines. His percussion classic Bone Alphabet comprises dense and polyphonic textures
on seven non-resonant instruments. Electronic wizard Sir Duperman’s remix offers an illuminating
stylistic transposition, questioning the status of canonized artworks as untouchable masterpieces.

Håkon Stene
Håkon Stene studied in Oslo, Freiburg and San Diego with Rob Waring, Kjell Samkopf, Bernhard
Wulff, Pascal Pons and Steven Schick among others. From 2005-2008 he was selected for the launch
programme INTRO for young soloist by Concerts Norway. Solo and chamber performances with
ensembles asamisimasa, Pantha du Prince & the Bell Laboratory, Oslo Sinfonietta, Klangforum Wien,
BIT20, Rolf Lislevand Ensemble and Nils Økland Ensemble include venues such as Acht Brücken
Köln, Barbican, Bergen Festival, Casa da Música Porto, Darmstadt, Debüt im Deutschlandsradio,
Donaueschingen, Ultima, Wien Modern, Primavera Sound, Mutek, Venezia Biennale, South Bank
Centre, Warzaw Autumn, Monday Evening Concerts LA, Feldkirch Festival, Ludwigsburger Festspiele,
Cutting Edge London, 2Days&2 Nights Odessa, Huddersfield, Stockholm New Music and Ultraschall;
tours throughout Europe, US and Asia as well as recordings for several labels, Radio and TV;
collaborations with composers such as Laurence Crane, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy,
Clemens Gadenstätter, Klaus Lang, Nicolaus A. Huber, Johannes Kreidler, Helmut Lachenmann, Alvin
Lucier, Helmut Oehring, Mathias Spahlinger, Simon Steen-Andersen and many others. He is
currently involved in the Artistic Research Programme at the Norwegian Music Academy.