Jury's reasoning: Since he took his place in Norwegian contemporary music as a young man with the greatest ease, Eivind Buene has impressed with a rare writing ability and stylistic certainty. This enables him to take great artistic risks in his projects, and land on his feet. From his non-classical background, he has also retained a playful attitude […]
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The jury's reasoning:
Since he took his place in Norwegian contemporary music as a young man with the greatest ease, Eivind Buene has impressed with a rare writing ability and stylistic certainty. This enables him to take great artistic risks in his projects, and land on his feet. From his non-classical background, he has also retained a playful attitude to what is and is not allowed within musical genres.
To top it all off, the composer has also managed to establish himself as a writer. And in the work "Blue Mountain" he gets a rare opportunity to show himself from both sides, as he is behind both the text and the music. These two elements are conceived as one concept, tailored to each other in a form that could almost only have been conceived in one and the same mind. This is what makes the work something completely unique.
The dialogue between the two actors is discreet and everyday, but comes step by step closer to the listener. We are seated as spectators at a concert within a concert, where the orchestra's presence on stage also becomes a double reality. The quotes by Gustav Mahler and other classical composers fall naturally into an orchestral movement that is not overplayed, but kept in an almost sketchy tone. A strong piece that says something about the power of music to carry memories.