Andreas Aase
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| Andreas Aase graduated from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Music in autumn 2009 with the project "Improvisation in Scandinavian Traditional Guitar". Main supervisor for the project has been Associate Professor John PÃ¥l Inderberg, Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Folk musician Geir Egil Larsen from Verdal was the second supervisor. |
Background
Traditional music, or folk music, shares a common feature all over northern Europe, Scandinavia, the U.S.A. and many other areas: The melody is the main force to be reckoned with. This contrasts sharply with for example jazz music, where the composition is usually treated as a harmonic launchpad for improvising musicians to expand and elaborate.
In Norway, modernization of folk music usually takes the route of creating new surroundings for traditional instruments and playing techniques. Very few folk musicians are ever heard to improvise, although some do so to create introductions or transitions in concerts. It is not common for folk musicians in Norway "take solos" in the jazz sense of improvising organically within their genre, over a given composition, as one of several ensemble soloists.
Inspired by improvised forms of traditional music, from for instance Northern Africa, India and the Mediterranean Area, Aase tries to suggest an improvisational style for guitar, based on typical phrases, playing techniques and rhythmic vehicles taken from the folk music from the Trøndelag and Jämtland areas of Norway and Sweden.
The final appraisal
To appraise the artistic research, the following appraisal committee was appointed:
- Professor Bjørn Ole Rasch, University of Agder (chair)
- Professor Ulrik Spang-Hanssen, The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus
- Headmaster Gunnar Stubseid, the Ole Bull Academy
Homepage: www.andreasaase.com
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Contact Andreas Aase on e-mail: aasemeister@gmail.com