Ratkje, Maja S.K.: Passing Images, waltz 12′

WP Klangspuren Schwaz, Austria, 2003. Frode Haltli, accordion.

The undertitle for this composition is “waltz”, it is written as a solo piece for accordion player Frode Haltli, a commission from the festival Klangspuren Schwaz in Austria in 2003. The piece is written freely from memory of Frode Haltli’s own re-arrangement of a Norwegian folk tune, as a remote echo of something that has already been treated and changed. Then again, the piece is arranged, but not changed, by Frode Haltli for an ensemble consisting of accordion, viola, voice and trumpet (as found on the CD with the same title, out on ECM in 2007), or for the trio POING pluss a voice artist.
(Maja S.K. Ratkje)