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Spunk
Das Wohltemperierte Spunk
Album NO 2013 on Rune Grammofon label
Electronic, Rock and Classical (Drone, Avant-garde, Post-Modern, No Wave, Musique Concrète, Modern Classical, Experimental)
The box consists of 6 CD's each in their individual carton cover and with a 12 page booklet. Released in an edition of 500 copies. At one minute past eight in the evening of the twentieth of January, 2001, the Norwegian quartet SPUNK began playing a drone in the key of B, inaugurating a project that would weave into their musical lives for the foreseeable future. Eleven years, eleven months and eleven minutes later, the same foursome struck up a G, embarking on the final leg of a journey that had taken them through the twelve notes of the equal tempered scale – one tone per year. The twelve concerts took place at a variety of unusual locations around Oslo, including the immense, almost pitch-black interior of the Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum, with its twenty-second reverberation time; the Nobel Institute; a cabin on a remote island in the Oslo fjord; in a tent on top of the slanting roof of the newly built Opera House; the Physics Department of Oslo University; a vibrant high street shopping mall called Oslo City; and a private domestic living room. ”Das Wohltemperierte Spunk”s thrilling, texturally complex improvisations can be appreciated in their own right without any knowledge of the underpinning structure or concept. And yet the underlying numerology places the piece in a long line of consciously mathematical music, from the Bach keyboard corpus from which it takes its name, to Anton Webern’s String Quartet opus 28 (1938), which closes a circle by spelling out B-A-C-H in the first four notes of its twelve-tone row. SPUNK’s own opus uses the same order of tones as the Webern quartet.
Musicians
 | Spunk , album by |
 | Lene Grenager vc, *1969 NO cello |
 | Hild Sofie Tafjord frh, *1974 NO french horn, other, various |
 | Kristin Andersen tr, fl, *1973 trumpet, flute |
 | Maja S. K. Ratkje voc, *1973 NO voice, violin, harmonica, accordion, theremin, other, various |
Producers
| Hild Borchgrevink coordinator |
| Thomas Hukkelberg edited by, mastered by, recorded by |
| Anne Hilde Neset liner notes |
| Rob Young liner notes |
| Helge Sten recorded by |
| Ingar Hunskaar recorded by |
| Kim Hiorthøy sleeve |
Album Tracks
| No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DWS I, 20.01.2001 At 20:01 Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum (B♭) | Spunk | 33:33 | |
| 2 | DWS II, 20.02.2002 At 20:02 A Basement At Seilduksgata 25k (A) | Spunk | 28:53 | |
| 3 | DWS III, 20.03.2003 At 20:03 Oslo City Shopping Centre (C) | Spunk | 29:50 | |
| 4 | DWS IV, 20.04.2004 At 20:04 The Norwegian Nobel Institute (H) | Spunk | 26:52 | |
| 5 | DWS V, 20.05.2005 At 20:05 St. Edmund's Church (D♯) | Spunk | 24:41 | |
| 6 | DWS VI, 20.06.2006 At 20:06 A Cabin At Nakholmen Island (E) | Spunk | 35:56 | |
| 7 | DWS VII, 20.07.2007 At 20:07 Nydalen, By The Akerselva River (C♯) | Spunk | 38:37 | |
| 8 | DWS VIII, 20.08.2008 At 20:08 The Roof Of The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet (D) | Spunk | 36:23 | |
| 9 | DWS IX, 20.09.2009 At 20:09 Hønse-Lovisa's House (G♭) | Spunk | 35:23 | |
| 10 | DWS X, 20.10.2010 At 20:10 An Apartment At Brugata 3A (F) | Spunk | 42:36 | |
| 11 | DWS XI, 20.11.2011 At 20:11 Gamle Aker Church (A♭) | Spunk | 34:09 | |
| 12 | DWS XII, 20.12.2012 At 20:12 University Of Oslo, The Physics Building (G) | Spunk | 37:15 |
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