Player's Score-Niels Rosing-Schow's Ut-Sons (Sea Songs) for Guitar Duo (2016). Commissioned by 'OpenDays Festival' for the guitar duo Per Dybro Sørensen and Michael Norman. Programme noteThe work has been written for a first performance at the Utzon Center in Aalborg Denmark. It is an important aspect of the work that it must communicate with the building's remarkable architecture. The title is a play on words on the name Utzon. Ut - Sons (French Ut = the note C) means 'C - sounds' and the note C is the centre of the opening music which returns several times in the first half of the piece. C - sounds isdeliberately miss-spelled as Sea Sounds in the subtitle of the work. This expresses the proximity of the sea which is heard in the music as re-occurring broken chords similar to the sound of small friendly waves on the beach sand.In between these easily recognizable musical elements are established 'musical rooms' which are different versions of a common harmonic musical material. The quasi-canonical passages played by the two guitarists are mirroring each other without ever being totally identical thus reflecting thesubtle broken symmetries of the building. (Niels Rosing-Schow 2016)
