Scores/Writings | Søren Kjærgaard

Meridian Xings

Mind Map For Five Players is a 20-minute site-specific composition written for Mønsted Kalkgruber, Denmark – the world’s largest limestone mine. The piece was commissioned by SNYK (New Music Organization, Denmark) and was premiered on September 12th in Mønsted Kalkminer by Maria Laurette-Friis, Thomas Morgan, Torben Snekkestad, Kresten Osgood and Søren Kjærgaard (composer).
The piece interweaves a variety of sonicalities that are inspired by the sounds and silences inside the mines, like dripping water, crumbling rocks, crying bats – all immersed in a dark and heavy humidity. Each performer prepares a set of sounds which is laid out in the graphic score, by choosing ones own path through it. As the piece unfolds, the five players encounter in an ever changing and indeterminate sonic cross field.
Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

Commissioned by the Copenhagen Saxophone Quartet. First performance by the Copenhagen Saxophone Quartet on January 27th at “Ny Musik i Birkerød”, Mantziusgården, Denmark.
Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

It don’t mean a thing
And it ain’t got that swing
This slight change in a well-known line is the launching point for both the album “Alphabet, Peaceful, Diminished: 29 Proposals from the Towers of Babble” and its linernotes, written by Torben Ulrich & Søren Kjærgaard.
Listen to the album here: http://sorenkjaergaard.com/discography/alphabet-peaceful-diminished-29-proposals-from-the-towers-of-babble/

Pludselig, Stilhed (Suddenly, Silence) is an article on John Cage, written by S.K. for the Danish magazine Jazz Special (printed in JS edition #130, December 2012 / January 2013) in celebration of Cage’s centennial on September 5th, 2012.