Magnus Granberg | Ellen Arkbro

Magnus Granberg, Place the Stones at My Head and Feet for solo piano

Ellen Arkbro, new work for solo piano

Magnus Granberg's Place the Stones at My Head and Feet is a new piece for solo piano which takes Elizabeth Cotten’s well-known song Freight Train as its point of departure. Granberg is a composer and performer working at an intersection between contemporary chamber music and improvisation. Self-taught as a composer, he formed his own ensemble Skogen in 2005 trying to integrate experiences, methods and materials from various traditions of improvised and composed musics into a new modus operandi.

Ellen Arkbro is a composer, musician and sound-artist working with precision-tuned intervallic harmony. Her work includes compositions for acoustic instruments and for synthetic sound, and for combinations of both, as well as installation work. In all of her work, Arkbro focuses on the qualities of harmonic sound that reveal listening as an active process of creative participation, inviting the listener to gradually transform into the sound itself.