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About Me

Photos by Kristin Lidell. Webbdesign by Jenny Gustafsson

"It’s a beautiful sound, SounDance. Sound and dance in one and the same breath. A word that gives rise to thoughts of movement, alone or together, leading or being led or dancing freely. It’s about transitional sound, individual chimes that melt together or glide apart, tones that grow stronger or ring out." -Johan Scherwin

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/25/2007
Band Website: gac.se/soundance
Band Members:
Thomas Gustafsson - saxophones and electronics

Staffan Svensson - trumpet and electronics

Chris Montgomery - drums

Sounds Like:
It’s also an expressive word for the music that Thomas Gustafson, Staffan Svensson and Chris Montgomery create together. Music clearly related to jazz and modern artistic music, but which begins somewhere else. Here are six tracks that are not swaddled in a network of harmonies or melodies. Instead they are based on sound, pulses, atmosphere and musical associations that continually create new directions.

in a laboratory where sound and pulses are built up in a steady ongoing chemical process: sequensce is joined to sequence, while it bubbles and simmers: colours, aromas. Structures succeed one another and sketch out long compositional courses.

But the music of the trio can also be heard as abstract art, like painting in an exhibition or more as a series of artistic video arrangements. Thin lines thicken out; isolated points join up and form an unbroken line. light darkens; light dissolves or thickens to shade. It is a movement that also goes into depth when background becomes foreground, isolated sounds force their way to the surface and make the pictures three-dimensional.

Here and there, the music seems to tell a concrete story. A birch-bark horn echoes over the mountain pasture. crops shoot up in wide fields. Dervishes whirl around the flickering fire. the ballet dancer reacts to a world into which we cannot see.

Occasionally, there are two phases in parallel. scene is put against scene, atmosphere against atmosphere. slamming and noise that disturb the indian sitar. musically, it is perhaps about counterpoint, but the interpretations it gives rise to are many more.

All this is created by Thomas Gustafson, Staffan Svensson and Chris Montgomery with saxophones, trumpet, drums and a lot of electronics, each has his own strong personal voice that puts a stamp on the course of events, but never takes over. Instead, they feel their way into what is necessary for the whole and its development.

Together, they are a collective in which roles are continually changing, but all have equal input and responsibility, surprising alliance between the collective and extensive individual freedom.

Ultimately, it is about these three catching every individual moment.

Johan Scherwin
Record Label: GAC electrosonic recording
Type of Label: Indie