BOWLING
Eva Pfitzenmaier & Else Olsen Storesund
premiere:
12 December2023
nyMusikk
Dyrk Bryn, Oslo
bowling (7’) is a piece for video and prepared piano. It was commissioned by Norway’s centre for contemporary music, nyMusikk.
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Eva Pfitzenmaier – music and video
Else Olsen Storesund – prepared piano & compositional elements
Comissioned by nyMusikk.
photo: Tonje Li photo: Linn Heidi Stokkedal
The title of the piece is rather self-descriptive: it’s about bowling, about the mesmerising movement of bowling pins flying about in the strangest patterns when being knocked over by the ball, or dangling from the strings when being pulled up, and it offers a (im)possible scenario of the secret life of a bowling ball. The intriguing sounds that pianist Else Olsen S. coaxes out of the piano without any form of electronic processing, provide building blocks for the perfect soundtrack for bowling – or maybe the bowling pins provide the perfect visualisation for this sound-exploring music piece.
