Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
What you get to hear and see in this video production is beautiful Danish contemporary music for solo clarinet, presented in the beautiful and unique setting of a Danish summer landscape with contemporary architecture and modern sculptural outdoor installations around Steven Holl’s HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art - in Birk Centerpark, Jutland.
The music is a world premiere recording of the Pour clarinette seule I from 1957 by Danish composer Gunnar Berg (1909-1989), played by young Danish clarinetist Jonas Frølund, who was followed around at Birk by the camera and drone equipment of young Danish Klavs Kehlet. The resulting video is in black and white, with all shades of grey offering their own visual music, while the soft curves and sharp edges of the clarinet piece and those of the architectural and sculptural forms are captured in a convincing and exciting artistic way.
The German poet Goethe (1749-1832) famously tried to illustrate the nature of music by referring to architecture and even sought to say something meaningful about architecture by referring to music. After Goethe, the Austrian music critic Hanslick (1825-1904) no less famously coined the phrase “tönend bewegte Formen”. As for Gunnar Berg, the much later composer featured in this production, a truly new and modern music should and could embrace a contemporary array of techniques and ways of expression in the same way that new materials had both forced and allowed architects to come up with new solutions, new structures, new forms and indeed new townscapes or the new visual music of a modern building rising in a landscape . . . just have a look at the thumbnail photo from the Birk compound, a signature work by that great Dane, Jørn Utzon (1918-2008).
Credits
Jonas Frølund plays a Buffet Crampon Tradition Clarinet in Bb
jonasfrolund.com
Audio recordings by Mette Due at the Concert Hall of the Malmö Live Konserthus, June 7-11, 2021
Video recordings by Klavs Kehlet, July 17-18, 2021 and July 9-10, 2022
https://kehletvideo.dk
Pour clarinette seule I-II is published by Edition Svitzer
editionsvitzer.com/catalog/pour-clarinette-seule-i-ii/c-23/p-297
Pour clarinette seule I is released by OUR Recordings
ourrecordings.com/albums/solo-alone-and-more
HEART – Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning
https://www.heartmus.dk/en/
Working Group Gunnar Berg
facebook.com/ArbejdsgruppeGunnarBerg
Bjarke Ingels om Jørn Utzon
youtube.com/watch?v=E1iZg9u0vM4&t=14s
Stephen Holl – Spaces like Music
youtube.com/watch?v=u4xoohJvNvs&t=64s
What you get to hear and see in this video production is beautiful Danish contemporary music for solo clarinet, presented in the beautiful and unique setting of a Danish summer landscape with contemporary architecture and modern sculptural outdoor installations around Steven Holl’s HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art - in Birk Centerpark, Jutland.
The music is a world premiere recording of the Pour clarinette seule I from 1957 by Danish composer Gunnar Berg (1909-1989), played by young Danish clarinetist Jonas Frølund, who was followed around at Birk by the camera and drone equipment of young Danish Klavs Kehlet. The resulting video is in black and white, with all shades of grey offering their own visual music, while the soft curves and sharp edges of the clarinet piece and those of the architectural and sculptural forms are captured in a convincing and exciting artistic way.
The German poet Goethe (1749-1832) famously tried to illustrate the nature of music by referring to architecture and even sought to say something meaningful about architecture by referring to music. After Goethe, the Austrian music critic Hanslick (1825-1904) no less famously coined the phrase “tönend bewegte Formen”. As for Gunnar Berg, the much later composer featured in this production, a truly new and modern music should and could embrace a contemporary array of techniques and ways of expression in the same way that new materials had both forced and allowed architects to come up with new solutions, new structures, new forms and indeed new townscapes or the new visual music of a modern building rising in a landscape . . . just have a look at the thumbnail photo from the Birk compound, a signature work by that great Dane, Jørn Utzon (1918-2008).
Credits
Jonas Frølund plays a Buffet Crampon Tradition Clarinet in Bb
jonasfrolund.com
Audio recordings by Mette Due at the Concert Hall of the Malmö Live Konserthus, June 7-11, 2021
Video recordings by Klavs Kehlet, July 17-18, 2021 and July 9-10, 2022
https://kehletvideo.dk
Pour clarinette seule I-II is published by Edition Svitzer
editionsvitzer.com/catalog/pour-clarinette-seule-i-ii/c-23/p-297
Pour clarinette seule I is released by OUR Recordings
ourrecordings.com/albums/solo-alone-and-more
HEART – Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning
https://www.heartmus.dk/en/
Working Group Gunnar Berg
facebook.com/ArbejdsgruppeGunnarBerg
Bjarke Ingels om Jørn Utzon
youtube.com/watch?v=E1iZg9u0vM4&t=14s
Stephen Holl – Spaces like Music
youtube.com/watch?v=u4xoohJvNvs&t=64s
