Research
“Improvisation is used as a means to exploit musical potentials.”
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Interview with Lasse Thoresen 2016: “Øret bestemmer”
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Page number indicates number of typewritten pages. Number of pages is omitted with shorter articles. Language indications: Nor= Norwegian. Eng= English. Fre=French. Ger=German.
1971-75
Various articles on cultural philosophy and music in the periodical Dyade. (Nor.)
1973
Signs and Sonology. (Eng.) (30 p.) (unpublished)
1975-78
A number of concert reviews in the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet. (Nor.)
1978
På jakt etter lyttingens lover. (Nor.)
(In search for the Laws of Listening)
The magazine Ballade No. 1, 1978
1979
Møte med Pierre Schaeffer: Vi må lære å bli gode instrumenter for llivet.(Nor.)
(Meeting with Pierre Schaeffer: We Have to Learn How to Become Good Instruments for Life.)
The magazine Ballade No. 2, 1979
1979
Feltdannelse (Nor.) (40 p.)
(Timefields)
Library of the Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo
1979
Hastighetstyper (Nor.) (24 p.)
(Types of Velocity)
Library of the Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo
1980
Musikk som tegn og struktur (Nor.) (30 p.)
(Music as Sign and Structure. An extract of a larger unpublished manuscript)
The magazine Ballade No. 3 and 4, 1980
1981
Grunnlaget for en fenomenologisk tilnærmelse til musikkteorien. (Nor.) (45 p.)
(Fundamentals for a Phenomenlogical Approach to Music Theory)
Studia Musicologica Norvegica No. 7
1981
Tidsretninger (Nor.) (60 p.)
(Time Directions)
Library of the Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo
1981
Tempora Noctis. Muligheter og umuligheter. (Nor.)
(Tempora Noctis. Possibilities and Impossibilities)
The magazine Ballade No. 2/3, 1981
1982
Food and Poison. Thoughts on the Ingredients of Contemporary Music. (Eng.)
Presented at the Nordic Music Days in Oslo 1982.
1982
Det tidløse i musikken (Nor.) (12 p.)
(Timelessness in Music)
Published in En levende tradisjon, Norsk Musikforlag, Oslo.
1982
Auditive Analysis of Musical Structures. (Eng.) (60 p.)
1983
Layer Constellations and Contextual Meanings in Thorkell Sigurbjørnson's Eurydice. (Eng.) (35 p.)
Library of the Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo
1983
Aural Design and Compositional Technique. (Eng.) (40 p.)
Library of the Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo
1985
Un model d'analyse auditive. (Fr.)
Analyse Musicale No. 1, 1985
1986
Ornamentet som strukturens motpol. (Nor.)
(Ornament as the Counterpart of Structure)
Kunsthåndverk No. 21, 1986
1986
Utforskning av auditiv struktur. Et norsk sonologi-prosjekt. (Nor.)
(Exploration of Aural Structure. A Norwegian Sonology Project)
Nutida Music (Sweden) No. 2, 1986/87)
1987
An Auditive analysis of Schubert’s Piano Sonata Op. 42,
Semiotica 66-1/3
1988
Auditive Analysis of Musical Structures. A summary of analytical terms, graphical signs and definitions.
Proceedings from ICEM Conference on Electroacoustic Music Stockholm, Sweden, 25 –27 September 1985.
1993
Nøkler til forvandling. En bahá'í-tilnærmelse til åndelig vekst. (Nor.) (280 p.)
(Keys to Transformation. A Bahá'í Approach to Spiritual Growth)
Norsk Bahá'í Forlag.
1995
Den guddommelige kjærlighetens vei. (Nor.) (60 p.)
(The Path of Divine Love)
Texts prepared for the Norwegian Bahá'í summer school.
Norsk Bahá'í Forlag.
1995
Kan øret forske? (Nor.) (8 p.)
(Is the Ear Able to Research?)
Paper for a seminar on research, arranged by the art colleges in Oslo, published in 1997.
1996
Flerskiktighet is Olav AntonThommessens orkestermusikk. (Nor.) (25 p.)
(The Multilayered Structure of Olav Anton Thommessen's Orchestral Music)
Olav Anton Thommessen - Inspirator, tradisjonsbærer, Rabulist, Norsk Musikforlag.
1996
Samklang. Teknikker og virkninger. (Nor.) (30 p.)
(Chordal Texture. Techniques and Effects)
Textbook for the Norwegian State Academy of Music, in progress.
1997
Verdensbilde Kronikk i Aftenposten i anledning Ultimafestivalens satsning på Japan
1998
"Flytende toner, flytende tid.” Kronikk om Gerard Grisey i Aftenposten
1998
Harmonisk analyse av tonal musikk- Forslag til en flerdimensjonal tilnærming. Utkast. (Harmonic Analysis of Tonal Music. A proposal for a multidimensional approach)
1998
Unlocking the Gate of the Heart. Keys to Personal Transformation. A Bahá’í Approach (300 p). George Ronald Publishers
2000
Formdannelse. (15 .)
(Principles of formal construction)
Textbook for the Norwegian State Academy of Music, in progress.
2001
En elveliknelse om løst og fast. (presentert under NMHs fagdag)
2001
Creation. A discussion on principles of creativity in cosmology, arts and the science. (19 pages) Key Note address to the 25th Annual Conference of the Nortern American Association for Bahá’í Studies.
2002
Musikk som talende nærvær (8s). En analyse av to versjoner av Sonate nr. 1 i fmoll av Ludwig van Beethoven; presentert under åpen uke ved NMH
2002
Spektromorfologisk analyse av klanggjenstander. En praktisk tilrettelegging av deler av Pierre Schaeffers hørelære. (25 sider) (utkast)
2002
Spectromorphologic Analysis of Sound Objects. An adaption of Pierre Schaeffer’s Typomorphology. Paper presented at GRM , Paris June 2002. The seminar and the presentation can be found at GRMs web site (searching for "Thoresen")
2002
Fließende Töne, fließende Zeit. (Ger.) (5 p.)
Program book of MAGMA2002BERLIN
2007
Form-building Transformations.Journal of Music and Meaning n. 4, spring 2007.
JMM 4, Winter 2007
2007
Spectromorphological Analysis of Sound Objects: An adaptation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Typomorphology. Organised Sound, 12(2): 129-141
2009
Sound-objects, Values, and Characters in Åke Parmerud’s Les Objets Obscurs. With the assistance of Andreas Hedman. Organised Sound, 14(3). Cambridge University Press.
2010
Form-building gestalts and metaphorical meaning. With the assistance of Andreas Hedman. Organised Sound, 15(2). Cambridge University Press.
2012
Exosemantic Analysis of Music-As-Heard. Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference Meaning and Meaningfulness in Electroacoustic Music, Stockholm, June 2012.
2012
Exosemantic Analysis of Music-As-Heard. Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference Meaning and Meaningfulness in Electroacoustic Music, Stockholm, June 2012. www.ems-network.org
2014
The Concrescence Project (2008-2010): Ideas, Processes, Experiences, Musical Works. Tempo 68 (267) 7-21. Cambridge University Press.
Extreme Interpretation (Brief version). Cambridge University Press.
Invocation Reflections Portefolio. Cambridge University Press.
Invocation Reflections Portefolio
Symposium, The Reflective Musician: ‘Interpreting Interpretation – how musicians reflect on their making of musical meaning’ by Darla Crispin
Musiques Électroacoustiques. Analyses < --> Écoutes. L’analyse perceptive des formes émergentes. Une approche gestaltiste de l’analyse musicale. Éditions Delatour 2015
Spectral Mergers. How Spectral Music came to Norway. Research Gate
Extreme Interpretation? Some observations on Rachmaninoff’s version of Chopin’s third Ballade in A-flat major, op. 47. Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices. Ed. Kathleen Coessens. (2019: Leuven University Press, Leuven) http://www.auralsonology.com/analysis-of-chopin-ballade-in-a-major-op-47/
2015
Musiques Électroacoustiques. Analyses < --> Écoutes. L’analyse perceptive des formes émergentes. Une approche gestaltiste de l’analyse musicale. Éditions Delatour 2015
2019
Spectral Mergers. How Spectral Music came to Norway. Research Gate
Extreme Interpretation? Some observations on Rachmaninoff’s version of Chopin’s third Ballade in A-flat major, op. 47. Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices. Ed. Kathleen Coessens. (2019: Leuven University Press, Leuven) http://www.auralsonology.com/analysis-of-chopin-ballade-in-a-major-op-47/
2020
Stillheten er lydsinnets himmelhvelving. Musikkfilosofiske tekster. Tanker om musikk – og språk, tolkning, erfaring, tid, klang, stillhetm.m., ed. Øivind Varkøy, Henrik Holm (Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2020), 329-345. https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.115.ch18
2022
Energy in Music): An Inventory of Observations and Ideas. (2022) Music Theory and Analysis (MTA), Volume 9, Number 1, pp. 71-101(31). Leuven University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.11116/MTA.9.1.4
Unity in Music and Religion. A Pansemiotic Inquiry. (2022) Musikk og religion: Tekster om musikk i religion og religion i musikk. Henrik Holm, Øivind Varkøy https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/catalog
https://doi.org/10.11116/MTA.9.1.4/book/1772025
The Harmonic Series: An Affordance for Musical Composition.
Unpublished article (10000 Words)
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Spectral mergers: how spectral music came to Norway
Spectromorphological Analysis of Sound Objects. An Adaptation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Typomorphology.
Sound-objects, Values and Characters in Åke Parmerud’s Les objets obscurs, 3rd Section.
Form-building Patterns and Metaphorical Meaning