Composer Maria Ljungdahl in Sweden, and various musicians from around the world. The recordings are either from performances or rehearsals of my pieces, or simple midi demos made with Sibelius notation software or a sequenser program.
Influences
Sounds of nature and the elements, sounds of living beings, sounds of culture and technology, sounds of musical instruments, sounds of recorded, preserved and processed sounds, sounds of notation, sounds of traditions, sounds of imagination and the mind, sounds of silence, sounds of movements and stillness, sounds of sensations and rhythms, sounds of forms and colours, sounds of noises and musics, sounds of logic and impulses, sounds of feelings and narrations, sounds of talking and walking, sounds of sailing and smiling, sounds of weather, sounds of light and darkness, sounds of the high and the low, sounds of memories and hopes, sounds of past, present, future and the until-much-later, any and many sounds, of sense and nonsense.
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(Paintings, 2006-2007)
Sounds Like
Some pieces sound like they are, and are what they sound. Other pieces sound like the performers who interpret them. Most pieces are open for other sounds.
Composer of new art music, jazz tunes and experimental pieces. Sheet music for some of the songs here can be viewed and printed from Maria Ljungdahl's pages at the publishing site SibeliusMusic.com, where you will find many other examples of compositions for different sorts of ensembles, both written for classical musicians and for improvisers, for example the jazz ensemble piece Di Mini Shed.
I have been interested in writing my own music since I was very young (5 or 6 years old) and was encouraged by my first piano teacher, Greta Westfelt (a student to Nadia Boulanger).
I studied musicology at the universities in Gothenburg and in Stockholm, and I also have a background from science, IT and engineering studies, and worked as a technician in nuclear physics (control room staff worker, not an engineer or scientist) for a couple of years in my youth.
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I request, approve, refuse and remove Myspace friends for many and mysterious reasons! I add friends when there is something I like, in a text, piece of music, photo or connection. I refuse when I instantly dislike something about a profile, or when the request is from an uninteresting band with >50,000 friends. I sometimes remove friends when I have lost the interest or the connection. I also tend to hit the remove button when a friend has posted half a dozen bulletins on the same day, and none of them were worth reading.
Hej Maria. roligt att höra av dig! hoppas allt är bra! jag sitter ute på landet och försöker ha semester (det går bra) men med ett mycket opålitligt mobilt bredband... ska kolla dina grejer när jag kommer tillbaka till stan! blev nyfiken. ha det bra så länge! jesper
Hej Maria, Tack för förfrågan. Välkommen till my friends. Det var roligt att få träffa dig och höra dina okonventionella piano verk. God fortsättning, med bästa hälsningar Davor Kajfes
Fate now allows us, ’Twixt the departing And the upstarting, Happy to be, And at the call of Memory cherish’d Future and perish’d Moments we see.
Seasons of anguish, Ah, they must ever Truth from woe sever, Love and joy part; Days still more worthy Soon will unite us, Fairer songs light us Strength’ning the heart.
We, thus united, Think of, with gladness, Rapture and sadness, Sorrow now flies. Oh, how mysterious Fortune’s direction! Old the connection, New-born the prize!
Thank, for this, Fortune Wavering blindly! Thank all that kindly Fate may bestow! Revel in change’s Impulses clearer, Love far sincerer, More heartfelt glow!
Over the old one, Wrinkles collected, Sad and dejected, Others may view; But on us gently Shineth a true one, And to the new one We, too, are new.
As a fond couple ’Midst the dance veering, First disappearing, Then reappear, So let affection Guide thro’ life’s mazy Pathways so hazy Into the year!
Happy New Year! I have a strong feeling that 2008 has wonderful things in store for you! Have a amazing new year!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks again for your friendship... you are terrific! Tell
God Jul Maria! Jag hoppas att allt ar bra. Vi firar idag eftersom mamma och pappa ar har. (Jag skriver hos min syster och hon har inte de svenska alfabetet) Vi har ingen sno.
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