Randen

Randen is a piece written during 2022/2023 for the percussionist Daniel Alin.

Using only a timpani and a singing bowl, I attempted to broaden the limits of possible sounds using the instruments.

Complex and dense passages work as ”sound complexes” that recur repeatedly during the piece. I imagine these passages as a way of looking at an object from different angles, seeing something familiar but never the whole of it – parts are obscured and hidden from sight – nevertheless we keep returning to it.

Separating these sound complexes are silences, long sounds, or elaborations stretched out from within: as if zooming in to the object and seeing new paths and structures. Or simply: seeing nothing.