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This article is about the composer. For the actor, see Adrian Knight (actor).

Adrian Knight (b. 1987, Uppsala, Sweden) is a composer[1] living and working in New Haven, CT since 2009. Between 2006 and 2009 he studied with among others Pär Lindgren and Jesper Nordin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and since 2009 with David Lang and Ezra Laderman at the Yale School of Music[2] in New Haven.

While not adhering to any definitive school of thought other than the experimental, his music is almost without exception slow and quiet, sometimes with gradual processes, sometimes entirely static. It combines elements of noise, simple waveforms and field recordings with slowly rising and falling layers of pitches. It has resulted in a number of works for acoustic instruments and electronics, notably manchester for large orchestra with electronics (2008), vain attempts for piano and fixed electronics (2007-2008) and daedaldualism for electric guitar, synthesizer and live electronics (2007), as well as works for purely acoustic or electronic ensembles. [3][4]

He has collaborated with among others the Swedish Wind Ensemble with Michael Bartosch, harmonica virtuoso Filip Jers, Jan Risberg’s Futurum Ensemble, and KMH Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Blendulf. Since 2008, he operates what he calls “the smallest record label in the world”, närproducerat[5], and has released five albums so far, with, in addition to his own works, music by Magnus Bunnskog[6], Sebastian Lakatos and Victor Lisinski.

His works are published by the Swedish Music Information Centre[7]. He is a member of Fylkingen in Stockholm[8].


List of works

Chamber music

  • death of paneloux for piano and fixed electronics (2009)
  • livet innanför väggarna for two violas, violoncello and double bass (2008-2009)
  • pulse and vibration for two pianos (2008-2009)
  • music of spaces for harmonica, piano, percussion, fixed and live electronics (2007-2009)
  • trolladans for piano, live electronics and percussion (2008)
  • cabrini-green for disklavier and electronic instruments (2008)
  • ricky bruch for five micro modular synthesizers (2008)
  • unruhe for six electric guitars with e-bows and volume pedals (2008)
  • vain attempts for piano and fixed electronics (2007-2008)
  • lines for jenny for baritone, flute, viola, double bass and two percussionists (2007-2008)
  • daedaldualism for electric guitar, synthesizer and live electronics (2007)

Electronic music

  • världens undergång for fixed electronics (4.0) (2009)
  • metahymn for fixed electronics (4.0) (2008)
  • the spiders enmity for fixed electronics (2.0) (2006)

Orchestral music

  • till minne av for sixteen solo strings (2009)
  • manchester for large orchestra with electronics (2008)

Vocal music

  • refrigerated poeticisms for mixed choir (2007)

Discography

  • världens undergång (2009)
  • ricky bruch album (2008)


References

  1. ^ http://adrian-knight.com
  2. ^ http://musicians.yale.edu/adrianknight/Home//
  3. ^ http://musicians.yale.edu/adrianknight/bio
  4. ^ http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15536
  5. ^ http://polymork.com
  6. ^ http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Bunnskog
  7. ^ http://www.mic.stim.se/
  8. ^ http://www.fylkingen.se
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