Mats Wendt
{{Short description|Swedish composer (born 1965)}}
Mats Wendt (born in 1965) is a Swedish classical composer and artist. His best known work internationally is Eddan – the invincible sword of the elf-smith, a 16-hour-long "cybersymphonic" work on Norse mythology according to Viktor Rydberg. Five hours from Eddan was performed in Bayreuth 2003 during the annual Wagner festspiele,{{cite news |last=Redvall |first=Eva |title=Wagnerhändelse och dröm för svensk cybersymfoniker |work=Sydsvenskan |date=19 July 2003 |language=sv}} in Wahnfried, Wagner's former home, now the Richard Wagner museum. The work was first performed in its entirety in Reykjavík in 2009.{{cite news |last1=Betts |first1=Jane |title=Tonsatt Edda uruppförs av Karlskronakompositör |work=Blekinge Läns Tidning |date=22 May 2009 |language=sv}} Prior to Eddan, he's been inspired by works of writers like William Blake and T. S. Eliot.{{cite news |last1=Andersson |first1=Margareta |title=Mats Wendt uruppför cyber-Eddan |work=Sydsvenskan |date=23 May 2009}}
Wendt is also the originator of "cybersymphony",{{cite news |title=Cybersymfoniker uppträder i Lund |work=Sydsvenskan |date=16 April 2000 |language=Swedish}} a concept for transferring the symphony orchestra to computers and by this create a super instrument that is independent of development of hard and software. He's performed his work at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology.{{cite news |last1=Betts |first1=Jane |title=Wendt med orkester till Tekniska museet |work=Blekinge Läns Tidning |date=16 October 2000}}
Cybersymphony
The concept of Cybersymphony was created by Wendt in 1993 to build a foundation for symphonic music created by computers and synthesizers.
The "instrument" used to perform a cybersymphony consists of two things: the cybersymphonic law that defines what the instrument is, and any synthesizer that meets the requirements. This means that, in the absence of a physical instrument (and the small differences caused by the analogue), a consistently defined sound is available.
The Cybersymphonic Law summarised:
- All sounds must have a real counterpart (violin, oboe and so on, with the correct register span).
- All instruments must be played like the real counterpart (i.e.: technical limitations must be observed).
- All instruments or instrument sections must be located on separate midi channels
- No sampling of mixed sounds may occur.
- The Orchestral dynamic is created by the parts individual dynamics.
- No dynamic event may occur in the section sounds or instruments sounds
- Dynamic is formed by continuous volume and the keystroke
- The orchestral timbre is created through the sum of the sounding separate midi channels
Selected works
- Cyborg Piano Concerto nr 1 (1981)
- The child and the soul of logic (1984)
- Three Psychological portraits (1989)
- Psychopath predominantly aggressive
- Schizophrenic reaction type catatonia
- Die grosse compressed crocodile symphony
- Urbana
- Voluspa
- Baltic ode (1990)
- Excalibur Piano Concerto nr 3 (1993)
- Tales from lord of the rings 1 (1993)
- Tales from lord of the rings 2 (1995)
- Symphony for a dead world (1994)
- The Insects Collection (1993–1995)
- The Omega point theory (1994)
- The Marriage of heaven and hell (1996)
- The Millennium Symphony (1997)
- WasteLands (1997)
- Europe a prophecy (1998)
- Eddan — the invincible sword of the elf-smith (2008)
Sources
- STIM - the Swedish Performing Rights Society
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20190729035059/http://www.eddan.net/ Eddan]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20190629075535/http://www.matswendt.com/ www.matswendt.com]
- [http://www.cybersymphony.info Cybersymphonic Institute]
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Category:20th-century Swedish classical composers