Local Colour

The project is based on the first paragraph in Paul Auster's novella Ghosts. The composition consists of 3 short movements. The first movement is the original text straight from the book (ill.), the two following movements are versions of the paragraph that has been trough Google Translate so many times that the text is altered into strange sentences and meanings. The composition was done by isolating the letters C, D, E, F, G, A, B in the text and using them in a notational system to indicate pitch. The absence of the characters in between the chosen letters indicate the durations/note values. 

Sound cloud:

1.movement –First Of All There Is Blue

2.movement –Brown And I Got Ham

3.movement –White And Blue (This Section Includes Education)

Performed at ++, Black Box Teater (Oslo), Signal (Malmø), The Annual State Exhibition 2013 (Oslo) and Alte Schmiede (Vienna).