2017. In the archives of the Swedish National Board of Music and at the Foundation for the Promotion of Music Culture, you can study Ludwig van Beethoven’s original manuscript and sketches. We let them inspire us when we sketch, select and discard the master’s work.

We invited Anna E Weiser, good friend since the Spinn project in the summer of 2016, and her “Writing Pulp Instrument” (built by carpenter Joakim Klint) Her musical material is based on the sounds of sketching, which is acoustically amplified with the instrument’s resonant box.

Anna E Weiser
Photo W.Weiser

Anna E Weiser is a composer and musician who works in a borderland between recorded and improvised music. The artistic work is based on and explores space and listening in relation, a listening that involves the hand, the craft, the intelligence.
In 2015 her work was heard Sound of Thinking Hands in the Almedal Library’s foyer. Then the sounds from a cartoonist’s pen gave musical impulses to musicians to follow and work with. Now thoughts from this work meet Ensemble Makadam’s sketching based on Beethoven’s.