Magne Thormodsæter's Inventio Ensemble

A research project funded by The Grieg Academy, The Faculty of Fine Art, Music & Design, University of Bergen

The idea about this project is to merge musicians from different performing traditions. With a nice mix of my favorite performers from the classical environment and great improvising musicians with amazing ears an astonishing sense of creativity, we're aiming for a result where 1 + 1 becomes more then 2. The whole piece is called L'arte della persuasione (The art of persuasion) and contains five movements: 
inventio
dispositio
elocutio -part I and II
memoria
actio

Here's the first movement "Inventio", which is a tribute to the Swedish saxophone player Fredrik Ljungkvist

Personell
Melina Mandozzi - violine 
Vladimíra Ščigulinská - violin
Mara Haugen - violin 
Ricardo Odriozola - viola
John Ehde - cello
Magne Thormodsæter - bass
Eivind Lønning - trumpet
Kjetil Møster - tenor saxophone 
Thomas Dahl - guitar
Svein Olav Herstad - piano
Håkon Mjåset Johansen - drums
Ivar Thormodsæter - drums

Recorded by Davide Bertolini
Mixed by Cem Arapkirlioğlu 
Filmed by Montag