auka will be performed Beats during Boundaries.
Maia Viken is a young composer from Skien, Norway. She finished her Master’s degree in composition at The Norwegian Academy of Music in 2024. Viken works with electroacoustic music, sound installations and music for theatre and dance, as well as instrumental music for a variety of ensembles. Her music is characterized by her interest for timbre, clarity and transparence. Viken is a member of The Norwegian Society for Composers (Norsk Komponistforening).

auka

auka (2022) was written for Ensemble 3030 and premiered on the 24th of November 2022 in Majorstua kirke in Oslo, Norway.The title auka comes from the Norwegian written language «nynorsk» and means that something has increased. The piece is built around swelling chords moving around in the ensemble’s register. These swells increase in size, both dynamically and in time. Sometimes they emerge out of an upward or downward movement, other times they expand and change on their own. 

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