Göran Gamstorp

The work is unique, considering the elaborately composed sound tape that runs for 25 minutes of the work’s total duration, as well as for the volcanic eruptions in forte-fortissimo juxtaposed to the most delicate pianissimos. In order to create organic unity the composer has analyzed the sounds of water and has utilized the resulting sound material in his composition of the work. Growings was composed in the years between 1988 and 1991 and the tape took one year’s hard work to prepare.

Gamstorp was educated at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, where he received his diploma in composition 1990. He has been commissioned to write for the Royal Opera in Stockholm and he was the first Swede to be admitted to the IRCAM’s one year course. His works has been performed throughout Scandinavia, in New York, Paris and Hong Kong.