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In spring 2008 I had an idea for a work for chamber ensemble and voice to a project with Sonanza Ensemble and Anna Larsson, what then would be the ”Night’s deep violoncello” after a poem by Karin Boye. It was released on the album ”Unheard of – Again” on the label Phono Suecia and January 2010 won this album Grammy Award for Best Classical Album. The ideas for a new song cycle emerged with four poems 

by the same author of the poetry collections ”The Hearths”, ”Clouds” and ”For the Tree’s Sake”. 

The music of the poems have their own identity, where the drama of the lyrics have formed the music. The first three songs starting with harmonious sweeping orchestral sections for more dissonant sounds like clusters, micro- tonality, glissandi and rhythmic jerking parts in the last two songs. They are divided in terms of dramaturgy as ”music drama without a stage” in five different ”episodes” of spontaneous love, intimacy, longing, betrayal and the dazzling blindingly white love.

Sånger on bländvit kärlek (Songs about Blind White Love) was nominated by the Swedish Music Publishers Association (SMFF) Award as ”The most significant contemporary music work of the year” in the category orchestra/opera in 2014.