Travelling Light II (2015)
fl/bs fl, cl/bs cl, as, sopr, vn, vlc, pno, perc, gtr (7’30)
Premiered at Henie Onstad Art Center by Ensemble neoN, Dec 2015
Score: https://www.nb.no/noter/produkt/traveling-light-ii-for-ensemble-version-i/
Version 2 (2015/2018)
fl/bs fl, ob, cl/bs cl, bsn, vn, vlc, pno, perc, gtr,
Premiered at KLANG festival (DK) by Oslo Sinfonietta, May 2018
Score: https://www.nb.no/noter/produkt/traveling-light-ii-for-ensemble-version-ii-2/
Text by Jenny Hval:
The piece begins with flickering light. Kristine Tjøgersen’s Travelling Light II might take place inside a camera lens, continuously alternating its setting allowing shifting amounts of light enter the aperture. Still, I don’t think of light when I listen. Instead, I imagine one of the animated short films of Jan Svankmajer, where real human bodies turn into humanlike collages of scrap metal, vegetables, or plasticine. It’s beautiful and visceral. I flicker back and forth between my real and imagined body, living and dead tissue.
Travelling Light I (2014)
fl/picc fl, cl/cb cl, bsn, db and video (7'30)
WP at Sonic Festival, Copenhagen (DK) 2014
Travelling Light is shaped by a film of traffic headlights passing through dark tunnels, taking cues from the rhythms and colours of the endlessly moving lights.
TRAVELLING LIGHT I (2014) from Kristine Tjøgersen on Vimeo.
Music in the movie performed by:
Hanne Rekdal - Piccolo Flute and Bassoon
Kristine Tjøgersen - Bb Clarinet and Contrabass Clarinet
Ola Høyer - Contrabass