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Fredrik Rasten is guitarist and composer who is primarily focused on rational harmony and its related acoustic phenomena. Within his research, Rasten is distinct, inventive, compelling, and sometimes playful. To get a grasp: in Six Moving Guitars (2019) he intersects choreography and sound by having three musicians and three dancers move in specific patterns while strumming their justly tuned guitars, where motion directly shapes the acoustic experience. Or, in Lineaments (2023) he zooms in on the fine-grained intonations of tones and their timbral changes by use of string plucking, humming voice, sine waves and metal chains. We highly recommend you to listen to these projects.
On October 9th, Rasten will perform an acoustic iteration of Murmuration and Stasis (2025), released on Moving Furniture Records. In this body of work, he explores how sustained, fine-tuned harmonies can give rise to a physical and tactile perception of sound. Rasten encircles himself with five acoustic guitars, and will sustain its string into oblivion. Analogically, one-half of the work’s name denotes the phenomenon of multitudes of birds in collective movement, as they create amorphous, ever changing shapes in the sky. The seemingly infinitely ringing strings summon crisp tone spectres, which in their turn create vast figures that slowly drift, overturn and topple.
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