16.05.2019

AUGUSTINE ARTIST

Jakob Bangsø is proud to be welcomed into the family of Augustine Artists as they launch their brand new PARAGON string line which delivers a bright crisp tone along with a powerful projection. 

By developing the first nylon guitar strings in collaboration with guitar maestro Andrés Segovia in the mid 1940’s, Albert Augustine invented a new standard for classical guitarists that has stood the test of time for over seven decades.

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Augustine Paragon strings epitomise Augustine’s continued dedication to delivering excellence while representing a modern fusion of timelessness and authenticity.

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Jakob Bangsø uses a mixture of Paragon High Tension trebles, Augustine Blue basses and Regal Red (1st string)

18.07.2018

PREMIERE OF NEW WORK FOR SOLO GUITAR BY ANDREJA ANDRIC

Effervescence (2018) for guitar was premiered at The House Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, on July 18th 2018.

Program note:
"With an abundance of music recordings of every genre and from every time period in the past 1000 years and beyond, available on a click, and with frequent copyright lawsuits among the most beloved pop music creators, often a question gets asked: haven't all the possibilities for ordering music notes been already exhausted?

The question seems difficult, so let's try answering an easier one: have we exhausted all the possibilities for ordering notes that belong to only one chord? Say, the preferred one on guitar, the e-minor?

This work contains 165 possibilities out of 6561 selections and orderings of 4 out of 9 notes of e-minor chord. It is evident on the face of it that many of them have never occurred to anyone, so the answer to the above question is a resolute no. We haven't explored the possibility of music even within a single chord, let alone in the whole area of possible elements of music expression.

Accidentally the result of the above procedure turned out to be quite difficult to play, so it turned out to be a fulfillment of my long time wish: to write a truly virtuoso piece that would be at least something of a challenge for my dear friend Jakob Bangsø.

Being entirely created from notes of a single chord, Effervescence is also something of an ultimate mood piece, an eternal presence of shimmering sound in perpetual flux."

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- Andreja Andric

For interest in the score, please contact the composer here.