Jury's reasoning: This year's prize winner both embraces and expands the concept of composer. Christian Blom is awarded the Edvard Prize 2014 in the Open Class category for the work Trio for Dancing Thread, Lightbulb and Bell With Damper. In the prize winner's fascinating universe, there is no distinction between musical and physical craftsmanship. A welding certificate and counterpoint training have been equally important premises for developing […]
/ 03/11/2014 / codexThe jury's reasoning:
This year's winner both embraces and expands the concept of composer. Christian Blom is awarded the Edvard Prize 2014 in the Open Class category for the work Trio for Dancing Thread, Lightbulb and Bell With Damper.
In the award-winner's fascinating universe, there is no distinction between musical and physical craftsmanship. A welding certificate and counterpoint training have been equally important premises for developing a deeply personal and original artistic language of handmade fragile structures that combine sound, light, shadow play, movement and subtle use of technology.
The award-winning work gives a feeling of approaching music anew, through other dimensions. Looking at the work is like taking part in a close reading of something you only almost know what it is. Something that can collapse at any time – or just simply stop. You hold your breath while you see and hear a musical composition, but also sculpture and ballet in micro format. Tiny events organized in time and space that merge together. Material, technique, media become impossible to distinguish from each other and constitute a poetic work that is minimal and modest in expression, but which leaves an all the stronger impression.