Ole-Henrik Moe (1966) is an award-winning composer and musician of extraordinary talent and originality. He has composed this concert piece for Song Circus, resonators, and three fiddles performed by Ole-Henrik Moe, Kari Rønnekleiv and Britt Pernille Frøholm (hardanger fiddle). The music has developed through research in collaboration with Ole-Henrik and Britt Pernille.

The piece is based on hidden older tonalities featuring various mutations of so-called “ornamental scales with natural scale elements.” During the development phase, we experimented with resonators, the use of tubes (partially closed and open), and «resonant whispering» (whispering on the second formant), both with and without a resonator.

The work serves as an epitaph for the folk musicians Jon Jelmert, Heidi Løvlund, and a handful of artists who have passed away in recent years (the list has grown longer as the work has developed). In the piece, Ole-Henrik has also integrated the orienteering runner, a sort of tracker and alter ego of himself. It’s a rather quirky project that we are very excited to tour with…