Gro Marie Svidal: Tryllespel

Field of study: Artistic Research

The Hardanger fiddle music’s preludes and postludes form the basis for Gro Marie Svidal’s improvised solo works on the instrument. Their musical elements, vocabulary, the linguistic practice, and aesthetics form an important framework from which her solo improvisations are developed. In the project Svidal looks in on and into aesthetics and improvisation in other genre/traditions, meeting and collaborating with a selection performers and composers. Musical ideas, elements and understandings gained from the meetings and collaborations make the basis for new and further examinations and tests of different frameworks for her improvised preludes.

The title, Tryllespel, comes from Jølster in Sunnfjord, Norway. There, the Hardanger fiddle music’s prelude is, among other names, called Tryllespel.

The project is part of the externally funded artistic research project Craftsmanship, lead by Kjell Tore Innervik.