Jesper Nordin, the composer, developed a technology called Gestrument, an iOS app released in 2012, which allows him to compose within predefined boundaries while retaining freedom to improvise.
Performer Biography
Quatuor Diotima, a string quartet on this album, was formed in 1996 by graduates of the Paris national conservatory and is named after an allegory of German romanticism and a rallying cry for contemporary music.
Composer Biography
Jesper Nordin received the Grand Christ Johnson Prize in 2010 for being a 'sound magician, who explores and expands the acoustic space with originality and an uncompromising curiosity'.
Performer Biography
Daniel Harding, the conductor on this album, is also a qualified airline pilot.
Composer Biography
Jesper Nordin, a leading Swedish composer, is known for music with powerful emotional impact and traces of traditional Swedish folk music, rock music, and improvised music.
Cultural Impact
Jesper Nordin's Gestrument app is now used in video games to create real-time generated interactive scores, as well as in purely musical contexts by both amateurs and world-class musicians.
Compositional Technique
Gestrument, an iOS app developed by composer Jesper Nordin, opens up the area between a playable instrument and a predefined composition by letting users define musical rules and then play and improvise within them.
You might also enjoy...
Olga Neuwirth: Chamber Music
Cherney, B.: Like Ghosts From an Enchanter Fleeing / String Quartet No. 3 / In the Stillness of September (Canadian Composers Portraits)
