Det sista ljuset är en nybildad ensemble vars musik bildar ett tunt flor mellan dagen och natten, mellan drömmen och vakenheten, samtiden och historien.
Ensemblens musiker, vilka till vardags kan höras i ensembler som bland andra Skogen och Kommun, har kvällen till ära bjudit in den amerikanske trumpetaren och kompositören Nate Wooley, vilken utöver sina egna projekt även samarbetat med musiker och tonsättare som bland andra Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, Sarah Hennies, Annea Lockwood, Christian Wolff och Éliane Radigue.
Under kvällen kommer ensemblen att framföra ett nyskrivet, timslångt stycke av ensemblens kapellmästare Magnus Granberg, Is This the Night, How Can I Tell?
Nate Wooley: trumpet
Finn Loxbo: gitarr
Stina Hellberg Agback: harpa
Magnus Granberg: preparerat piano
Ryan Packard: slagverk
Det sista ljuset (The Last Light) is a newly formed quartet performing the music of Magnus Granberg. A collaboration with American trumpet player Nate Wooley is planned for November 2025.
Finn Loxbo (guitar), Stina Hellberg Agback (harp), Magnus Granberg (prepared piano) and Ryan Packard (percussion).
Hailed as making “..the most progressive campfire music ever” by The New York Times, trumpeter, composer, and writer Nate Wooley has been a quiet force in reshaping contemporary American music. As a trumpet player, he has been an important interpreter of experimental composition, making his premiere as a soloist with The New York Philharmonic in 2019. As an improviser, he has been a part of a movement to redefine the technical possibilities of the instrument, his solo performances being called “exquisitely hostile” by Massimo Ricci of Touching Extremes. His compositions are evolving amalgams of improvisation, folk music, text, and immersive experiences that communicate an arc of human experience from the fragility of being alone to the ecstasy of collectivity. He is also a writer of essays on new music published in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and E-Flux Journal among others. He founded and was the editor-in-chief of Sound American, a print and online music journal making space for musicians to speak in their own words, for ten years.