专辑简介

Hans Christian Höie has written a thesis on confluent music - cross-breeds between jazz and classical/art music. This is an exploration of this kind of music. It started with a series of acoustic guitar ideas which were later overdubbed with other instruments, both acoustic and electronic ones. Twelve of the pieces are quite short, so-called "S.C.G.O.I" (Short Comprovisations for Guitar and Other Instruments). In some cases, the recordings were edited and reorganized, for example in the first and last piece, where the beginning and the end of all the pieces are heard all at the same time. "Impressionistic twelve-tone piano comprovisation" was mainly improvised, but some bass notes were added manually afterwards to create interesting harmonies.

The music on this album is quite experimental, but at the same time mostly accessible and often melodic. A variety of different moods are conveyed. Modal scales are used for a number of the pieces, for example "Orchestral piece in the mode of G Mixolydian - Allegretto," which is a manually programmed computer-based orchestral composition with Midi harp improvisation. The titles of the pieces reflect different traditions within the classical and jazz idioms. Some are programmatic, like the two "Tone poems for the mountains of the world." Others, like the S.G.G.O.I.´s, lean more towards "absolute music," where the titles only provide information about the tonality of the pieces.