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On composition

Music also exists outside the scope of intervals, harmony, timbre, and rhythmic structures. It can be a specific tension between the musicians, a reflection on virtuosity, or the priorities of a musician performing a complex or impossible gesture. Music can even exist solely as a construct of your own imagination. It is alternate gateways to music such as these that the composer Anders Hannevold pursues.

To compose with extramusicality, Hannevold is combining multiple approaches to musical notation, such as graphical scores, instructional and poetic texts, expanded 5-line staff notation, tailoring the nature of the score to each individual piece. He also often deploys various unorthodox approaches to the technique known as “Mickey Mousing”, juxtaposing almost identical musical and conceptual material.

Hannevold has taken an interest in how we as individuals attribute meaning to art and often uses this as a founding pillar for his compositions. By pushing the imagination of the artists and the audience beyond boundaries of the comprehensible, he seeks to further enhance the individual perception of his music.

Anders’s music is featured around the world, but he has a strong bond to the Kansai region of Japan. Searching for alternate artistic qualities than those gained from his bachelor’s and master’s at the Grieg Academy in Norway, Hannevold has studied various traditional forms of folk music and traditional arts in Kyoto.

Besides composing for well-known artists such as Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Bozzini Quartet, Neo Quartet, Fukuhara Sawako, and Ermis Theodorakis, Hannevold also performs music himself. While being a trained pianist, he mainly performs on the medieval instrument organetto portativo, experimenting with various extended techniques such as microtonal beatings, glissandi, dynamic variations, harmonics, and subharmonics.

Hannevold was the chair of board at nyMusikk Bergen and a deputy member of the board of Norsk Komponistforening 2022-2024.

Current status

Hannevold is awarded Statens Kunstnerstipend 2023-2025. He is awarded De Unges Lindemanpris 2024, and he is also a member of the KUPP 2.2 program, sponsored by Talent Norge, Norsk Komponistforening, Music Norway, and Sparebankstiftelsen.