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Håkon Thelin is considered one of the world's leading performers of classical contemporary music, and he has researched and invented a number of novel playing techniques on the double bass. He is a member of the ensembles Oslo Sinfonietta and POING, and regularly visits Ensemble Modern and Musikfabrik.
As a composer, Håkon creates mainly music for the double bass. He has now the largest body of double bass music by any Norwegian composer. His compositional interest is focused on folk music, microtonality, overtones, just intonation and strange sonic phenomena on the double bass.
Håkon is an assosiate professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo where he teaches double bass and contemporary music. He also teaches young bassists through courses arranged by Norsk Kontrabassklubb (Norwegian Double Bass Society), Dextra Musica and Nesodden Kulturskole.
A New World of Sounds - recent advancements in contemporary double bass techniques
Multiphonics on the Double Bass - an investigation of the development and practice of multiphonics on the double bass in contemporary music
Bowed-string multiphonics analyzed by use of impulse response and the Poisson summation formula
Peninsula Audio Records - label for experimental double bass music
Click here to see complete list of albums
ABYSS is a conglomerate of activities connected to the peninsula of Nesodden, outside Oslo. Its purpose is to promote contemporary music for double bass within a local framework, and to create a meeting place for composers, musicians and other artists that live at Nesodden.
Photos by Jenny Rydhagen © Håkon Thelin 2024