winter / snows by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

winter / snows (2024)

winter (walk)
ancient snows

composed by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen for Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
performed remotely by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
recorded by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
mixed and mastered by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

These two works are the fruits of a first collaboration between Kervinen based in North Karelia in Finland and Waeckerlé based in South London. The contrast between their respective abode, a cold and windy northern wilderness and a milder gentler urban south, translates well in these two slow moving works where voice and instruments inhabit and bring a certain warmth to wintery field recordings. Kervinen's two notated scores are accompanied by a text, computer generated from Henri David Thoreau’s journal, from which Waeckerlé is picking words to speak, sing or dream. These 2 compositions are inspired by Kervinen’s memories of KLANGRAUM 2023 in Dusseldorf where the two first met, and include some of the tones played with his pocket sax/mini clarinet that she responded to, during performances of her pandemonic ‘What is left if we are not the world” (2022).

Music from silence, minimal, reductionist compositions for various instrumental ensembles, solo works, and electronic music.