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Ricercare stands at the intersection between the archaic and the futuristic. A solo work for amplified cello and effects, it serves as a bridge between disparate worlds, where contemporary classical, baroque, Middle Eastern and progressive metal elements converge.

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Affliction originated as an improvisation which was pre-recorded for a live-streamed performance of the song Contaminate Me by Leprous in Notodden, December 2020. This solo was the only take I recorded for the stream and it occurred to me upon listening to the isolated cello track that it could stand alone as an independent piece.

Affliction is a grief-stricken lamentation embodied by a raw and vulnerable solo cello performance - a lone voice crying out within a cavernous abyss.

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Out Of The Ether was improvised in a single unedited take. Upon recording it, I felt that the piece embodied my cellistic voice and the raw, unrefined character of my playing style.

Opening with an incantatory and austere atmosphere, the cello delivers a lonely supplication which then becomes a plaintive cry. The piece's second act is far more elemental and abstract; rapid arpeggios swirl like winds before giving way to swift runs that bring the music to a rhapsodic close, disappearing back into the same ether from which it first emerged, as elusive and transient as an undulating wave.

There is something about improvisation that is difficult to define with words, but its nebulous qualities are precisely what I find most fascinating about it. The creative process involves communing with a mysterious, non-physical world and bringing back some artifact that can be shared with others. Improvisation is particularly special to me because it is the precise moment of creation, when expression is pulled like a thread out of the ether.