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Pauliina Lievonen

First weekend off in weeks, no students, workshops, rehearsals or concerts either paid or not. I've had such a lovely day! Went to a concert as a listener, organ music by Frescobaldi and Scheidemann played by my husband Ere, and psalms by Orlando di Lasso sung by Cantores Martini, the small vocal ensemble at the Dom church. I told Ere the Scheidemann piece grooved like a pious moose. :) The center of town was packed full with people sitting at ouside cafes enjoying the sun.

Before and after had enough time to practise choir parts, traverso parts for Matteus and baroque bassoon pieces for the next lesson some time in the future when my teacher comes back from tour. And make a pan of apple sauce. Now I'm going to continue my detective story book binge. :)

#weekend#organ#choir
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Hafdis Bjarnadottir
For as long as I remember I’ve been fascinated with “endlessness” in art, and in life for that matter. Sometimes things appear to be going somewhere but in reality they are not, or maybe they are but there is no start or end to them. In music, we have things like “Shepard tone” and the “Risset rhythm”. I have played around with ideas that have the potential to be “endless”, for example in my composition “Hikk!” for flute, clarinet and bassoon (see comments for link). There I used a kind of a walking bass melody that walked endlessly, switching between walking up a major third and minor second, jumping up and down octaves where practical. The whole piece is derived from this small idea.

I wonder how you can play with similar ideas in poetry, photography, visual art, dance or other art forms. Feel free to try, and let me know in the comments what you come up with.

One more thing - I would love to get prompts and ideas from you, dear creative people of the internet. Tell me about ideas, interesting books or pieces you think I might enjoy.

#CreativePrompts #jazz #improvisation #improvisedmusic #contemporarymusic #composition #composing #icelandicmusic #icelandicjazz #guitar #bigband #compositionalstudies #jazzguitar #compositionstudies #creativity #flute #clarinet #bassoon #woodwindtrio
#woodwindtrio
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Pauliina Lievonen

I’ve got a week off which means time for bassoon practise. This might only amuse myself, but: I first learned music theory in Finnish, which like German uses H for the note just below C. But I now mostly teach in Dutch and English where the same note is B. But B in Finnish means a B flat. So in order to know for sure what I mean, in my own markings I write H and Bes. Clear as mud? 😁 #bassoon #music #musictheory

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Pauliina Lievonen

Until now I’ve never really felt very comfortable with the Aflat key on the bassoon*, my pinky felt too weak to move the key very quickly. But after drilling this movement endlessly these last weeks, it’s starting to feel much more natural! Practise makes things easier, who knew 😁 *The actual key on the bassoon, not the scale. Though come to think of it I should work on the scale of A flat some more, too. 😁 #bassoon #Classical #music #symphony

Sheet music of a bassoon part with lots of A flats
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Pauliina Lievonen

Caught a cold, and now I’m very short of breath which is very impractical when there is a rehearsal on bassoon and choir concert coming up. Trying to practise bassoon parts by listening to a recording and reading along in the sheet music. Found a lovely period instrument performance of Beethoven’s Egmont Ouverture. #bassoon #orchestra #beethoven #music

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Hafdis Bjarnadottir
The creative prompt I have for you today is: “Sabotage your own artistic creation to shake things up”. It’s a fantastic way to get out of a rut! A couple of weeks ago, I had been working for hours on end on a composition. I found my results a little bit boring, so I took the whole thing and sped it ruthlessly up and put a quirky beat under the whole thing. The mood of the piece was drastically changed - now it was more weird but also more fun! It was a bit over the top and crazy, but after some adjustments I’m really happy with the results and I’m looking forward to building on top of what I made. Or - tearing it down again, who knows! It’s a process :). P.S. If you want to hear how I “sabotaged” one of my own compositions for fun to make a new piece, check my comments - I’ll put links to pieces where I did exactly this.

#CreativePrompts #jazz #improvisation #improvisedmusic #contemporarymusic #composition #composing #icelandicmusic #icelandicjazz #guitar #bigband #compositionalstudies #jazzguitar #bassoon
#bassoon
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Pauliina Lievonen

Thinking back to my baroque bassoon lesson this week - we we’re playing a Ciaccona which had an ENDLESS bass part that left me feeling low on oxygen. Thing about bassoon is it doensn’t require that much air, you can play forever, but at some point the air in your lungs will be stale. My teacher looked at me thoughtfully and said ”in this piece you’ll need to plan where to breath out between notes, not just where to breathe in”.

I play several wind instruments but this was the first time it even entered my head that one might need to plan when to breathe out in addition to where to breathe in. 😅 Proper ”mind blown” moment. 😅 Usually the playing of the instrument is the breathing out part!

Oboists feel free to laugh at me. 😁

#bassoon#oboe#baroque
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