Lars Petter Hagen
Lars Petter Hagen is a Norwegian composer and curator, born in 1975, who studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Much of his work reshapes fragments of older music, as in Harmonium Repertoire. He won the Arne Nordheim Composer Prize in 2003, directed the Ultima festival in Oslo and has led the Bergen International Festival since 2022. Transfiguration 4, a study of Strauss's Metamorphosen, appeared on Portraits GRM.
Minos Circuit / Transfiguration 4
Minos Circuit is the resonance of a double exploration, that of an instrument, the bassoon - an instrument dear to Dafne Vicente-Sandoval - and that of a listening, of a gaze, almost. The first exploration deconstructs the instrument, tearing it apart, reducing it to an archipelago of sound bodies stimulated by an electro-acoustic device that generates feedback and infiltrates each part of the bassoon, in order to carry out a methodical, systematic examination. The second exploration is the inne…