Infantile Omniscience

2003/2011. Piece for any three instruments and computer musician. Score, performance instructions, graphic notation and Max-patch.

The piece is the result of a project around composition, improvisation, notation and interpretation, originally initiated by Magnus Andersson (guitar) in collaboration with Mats Gustafsson (saxophone), Raymond Strid (percussion) and Andreas Berthling (laptop), together forming the group FEED. First performance at Gothenburg Art Sound festival 2003.

A second iteration of the project also included the Norwegian trio POING in a ”double projection” of the piece where the two ensembles performed Infantile Omniscience simultaneously. Workshop on graphic notation at Ljungbergmuseet with art school students during tour in south of Sweden in 2012.

Performances at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Kunsthall Oslo in 2013 with John Butcher (sax), Rolf-Erik Nystrøm (sax), Frode Haltli (accordeon), Håkon Thelin (double bass), Magnus Andersson, (guitar), Raymond Strid (perc), Erik Peters (laptop).

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