CONCERTS. Places and times here.
MONOLAKE [DE NL]Sep. 28 @ BYSCENEN
Byscenen Friday September 28 Monolake Ghosts in Surround presents the material of the Ghosts album as a full surround sound experience plus real time generative video. The visual side of the Ghosts in Surround tour is a contribution by the Dutch audiovisual artist Tarik Barri [NL] with whom Robert Henke [DE] is collaborating since early 2009. “…Precisely crafted earthshaking beats, rough dirty noises, deep bass, wide lush soundscapes and little sonic creatures inhabiting a fascinating planet in which a lot of things go badly wrong and nothing is taken for granted –…
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OPEN REEL ENSEMBLE [JP]Sep. 28 & 29 @ BYSCENEN
Byscenen Friday 28th and Saturday 29th of September The return of magnetic tape ! OPEN REEL ENSEMBLE hides an unusual group of 5 young musicians led by Ei Wada (who recruited 4 friends from university for his project) and its stand-out feature is its signature instrument: old rolls of magnetic tape that the group’s members connect to computers from the latest generation, creating unprecedented melodies, tones and sounds and providing a live show that defies any possible comparison with anything else you have ever seen on a…
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FROST [NO] Sep. 29 @ BYSCENEN
CONCERT @ Byscenen Saturday September 29! FROST Live: Aggie Peterson, Per Martinsen. Visuals: Petra Hermanova. Frost is the musical project of creative couple Aggie Peterson and Per Martinsen. They’ve released two albums together (“Melodica” in 2001 and “Love! Revolution!” in 2006) and a dozen singles and remixes. They have toured all from Paris to London, and played several big festivals like Denmark’s Roskilde and Norway’s Øya Festival. Between them they’ve also been involved in a variation of other projects, such as staging art shows for…
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FROST DJ & dBRIDGE DJ@ TEV / SUPA!Sep. 28 & 29
Meta.Morf 2012 proudly presents in cooperation with TEV – Trondheim Elektroverksted and SUPA: FROST DJ & dBridge! Friday the 28th September, 24:00, right after Dutch MONOLAKE and Tokyo based OPEN REEL ENSEMBLE, Tromsø-based FROST, fires up their DJ-set @ SUPA! Saturday 29 september at SUPA at 24.00, just after yet another set at Byscenen by OPEN REEL ENSEMBLE (6 analog magnetic tape recorders, guitar and drums) + Live act from FROST: We find dBridge, a veteran producer and one of the most experienced drum & bass artists around. Darren White aka dBridge is an artist who through his many transformations and evolutions possesses a…
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SIESTA SUBMARINA@ TEV / SUPA!Sep. 28
Siesta Submarina is Trond Christensen from Trondheim. He will open Friday night’s Supa version of Meta.Fest – Meta.Morf’s 2012 opening weekend September 28 at 23:30.
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FiEND@ TEV / SUPA!Sep. 29
With a taste for analog eccelctism Kai Menear aka FiEND has circled the deep underground with hard and uncompromising sounds, performing with a mask to enhance the focus of the lingering spirit into the music. This time he’s surfacing with analog platters of sound that will be combined into a frenzy of neuro and techstep fueled bonanza with a sprinkle of genrebusting mashups to hail the Roken Bromance. FiEND will open Saturday night’s Supa version of Meta.Fest –Meta.Morf’s 2012 opening weekend September 29 at 23:30.
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PIKSEL A/V System performance @ PikselSavers 2012Oct. 5 @ Gallery KIT
PikselSavers 2012 – screensavers that make a difference! Oct. 5 @ Galleri KiT The opening night Friday October 5 will be accompanied by Piksel A/V system including Miss Mostly Dj and Vj H220! They deliver danceable rhythms and bouncy projections in close dialogue with the exhibition’s theme! PikselSavers is a screening programme of short movies and software art curated by the Piksel festival in Bergen. PikselSavers was commissioned by and first shown at the biennial for art and technology in Trondheim, Meta. Morf 2010. It was later presented…
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KKXV: Klubb Kanin’s 15 Years AnniversaryOct. 23 & 24 @ BLÆST
Klubb Kanin 1997-2012. It’s not over until the fat lady squirts. Blæst Tuesday October 23 – Wednesday October 24 WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? WHAT IS ORIGAMI ALL ABOUT? Klubb…
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ORIGAMI BOE [NO/CI]Oct. 23 @ BLÆST
Tore Honoré Bøe KKXV: Blæst Tuesday October 23 Tore Honoré Bøe is a Norwegian transmedia artist now working and living in the Canary Islands. His worklist is immense, counting hundreds of releases, exhibitions and performances. Over the last twenty years he played a lot of concerts, given workshops, published books and a multitude of recordings in almost any format available. He has exhibited visual art and submitted material to a vast load of magasines and blogs. He has also collaborated in various ways with a…
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ORIGAMI GURK + ELISE [??](Oct. 23 @ BLÆST)
Alexander Tronstad, Thomas Holme, Martin Palmer, Elise Marie Adamsrød KKXV: Blæst Tuesday October 23 Before seeking out a more commercial approach on the NoAward™ winning album “Age Of Reason” with Seidmen and Elise (coming soon on TRASS! anarchives/Ambolthue), the Gurks already had other groundbreaking recording sessions behind them. Going back to their roots they explore the states of art, music and mind-over-mountains that has so much in common with Senegalese noise-psykedelia, the Pippa Holstein Schoool Of Sonosemantics and the hailstorm of shoegazer-rock that came out…
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GAUTOKEINO [NO]Oct. 23 @ BLÆST
Gaute Ludvigsen KKXV: Blæst Tuesday October 23 Gautokeino is a one-man-band preformance, even two, with many friends. The man who came up with the band name (which is a pun on the African river famous for its numerous missionary stations), suffers from the rare W.Earl syndrome and were sent away from their hometown, and now only appear in the show played outside the local scene . Gautokeino is a very spiritual band that seeks to enlighten the / them listener / e with the sound…
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HENRIK MUNKEBY NØRSTEBØ [NO](Oct. 23 @ BLÆST)
Solo Trombone KKXV: Blæst Tuesday October 23 For the last couple of years, Henrik has worked simultaneously with two main concepts for solo improvisation, which in short can be described as “open, expressive improvisations” and “audio events in the interaction with acoustic space.” Two projects that sometimes play separately, and at other times has split concerts. Henrik has played solo concerts in Vienna, Barcelona, Berlin and Bad Oldesloe, as well as in Scandinavia, and released the CD “SOLO” on the label Creative Source in…
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NICK KUEPFER [CA](Oct. 23 @ BLÆST)
Nick Kuepfer KKXV: Blæst Tuesday October 23 Nick Kuepfer is a sound enthusiast and experimental musician with a primary focus on guitar compositions, the use of prepared and altered instruments, wildlife sound-scapes and animal recordings and various other sound sources fed and treated through multiple 1/4″ tape machines. His predominantly wordless music ranges from subtle and static to frantic and abrasive, with a methodical, vigilant sense of experimentation guided by the search for consonance and dissonance with the sounds of “nature”. Nick began performing solo,…
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A MELODYC SHIVERING FORM [NO](Oct. 23 @ BLÆST)
Vidar Schiefloe KKXV: Blæst Tuesday October 23 A Melodyc Shivering Form is a creature that grows in the brains of Vidar Schiefloe, and sometimes forcing him to make noise with whatever he may have available. People tend to like it, because it’s often very beautiful. A Melodyc Shivering Form is an anagram of “edgy Hanover microfilms” and “Adolf covering shimmery”, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything in relation to any of this.
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ORIGAMI BURSDAGSKAKA [NO](Oct. 24 @ BLÆST)
Arnfinn Killingtveit KKXV: Blæst Wednesday October 24 We’re proud to present one of the ultra rare and much talked about Origami Bursdagskaka concerts as the opening act of day 2 during KKXV. The birthday cake (bursdagskaka) has been an integral part of the birthday celebrations in predominantly Protestant countries since the middle of the 19th century, which extended to Western culture. Certain rituals and traditions, such as singing of birthday songs, associated with birthday cakes (bursdagskaka) are common to many Western cultures. The Western tradition of adding lit candles to the top…
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ORIGAMI ANTARKTIKA [NO](Oct. 24 @ BLÆST)
Jonas Qvale KKXV: Blæst Wednesday October 24 Origami Antarktika is Jonas Qvale solo, sometimes with guests. Qvale uses self-built instruments and equipment, microphones, toys, effects, sine generator, modified electronics and field recordings as building blocks in his compositions. Often the systems interact, on the verge of collapse or barely in balance. Qvale is also the leader of the group Hornorkesteret, which explores purely acoustic sounds and melodies. He was this year awarded 75 000 NOK from the Norwegian Composers Fund to write theater music for…
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ORIGAMI METALLIKA [NO](Oct. 24 @ BLÆST)
Kjetil Hanssen KKXV: Blæst Wednesday October 24 Rustic scrapnoise from the depths of Nordmarka in Oslo. Behind the Metallic shell we find Kjetil Hanssen, who often screams his lungs out as Ambolthue or curls up into a festive ball of muddy sounds as Torstein Wjiik. Origami Metallika is a full on scrap metal noise project, primal and physical. No further questions. Soon to come is also a 7″ produced by Lasse Marhaug. This will be Metallika‘s first concert, even though the project has been…
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HARALD FETVEIT & AGNES HVIZDALEK [NO AT](Oct. 24 @ BLÆST)
Dans for voksne KKXV: Blæst Wednesday October 24 Agnes Hvizdalek and Harald Fetveit play improvised music; Hvizdalek use voice and microphone, while Fetveit uses pretty primitive electronics, like the voice at times can sound like. This similarity of sounds is part of what charge their music and creates it’s unique character. The two usually goes to extremes, whether they reduce or explode on lydfronten. They have played together since 2008, with several performances in Oslo and Vienna. They have performed at many festivals, especially at…
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THE SEWING MACHINE ORCHESTRA [CA](Oct. 24 @ BLÆST)
Martin Messier KKXV: Blæst Wednesday October 24 Messier doesn’t sew : he resuscitates old singers put asleep years ago in order to release, in some magical ways, the luminous and sonorous presence of the past. he carries his public in a dreamlike universe where each machine, as singular subject, is magnified. after years of silence, sewing machine orchestra is giving speech to these surviving objects of the industrial era. Quebec composer, performer and new media/video artist Martin Messier’s esthetic can be defined as a complex,…
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JAZZKAMMER [NO](Oct. 24 @ BLÆST)
Lasse Marhaug, John Hegre & Greg Pope KKXV: Blæst Wednesday October 24 Do you remember when Jazzkammer was named Jazkamer? “Jazzkammer hooks you up without warning. John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug operates without introduction. You get sucked into a structured noise that is anything but monotonous. Yes, the two flirt with chaos, and uses both rhythm and melody in the charm offensive. (…) [The] series poke fun at entertainment music, and gives paw to the rock industry and feedback tradition. Jazzkammer plows new ground – and…
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TRONDHEIM MATCHMAKING REVIVAL – TEKS’ 10 Years Anniversary!Oct. 25 @ BLÆST
TEKS celebrates 10 years! The birthday party is at BLÆST, Oct. 25! Full programme TBA! TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre – founded the annual festival for art and technology, Trondheim Matchmaking, the same year TEKS itself came to life, in 2002. Trondheim Matchmaking run for 7 years until 2009, and from 2010 biennial for art and technology, Meta.Morf, became it’s successor. Trondheim Matchmaking archives can be seen here.
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PLAYING WITH THE DEAD [NL UK] Oct. 25 @ BLÆST
TEKS’ 10 Years Anniversary: Blæst Thursday October 25 Pierre Bastien [NL]: nail violin, trumpet and video, Bruno Ferro Xavier Da Silva [NL] : bass, Steve Argüelles [UK]: drums. For this new project I did not favor a screwdriver in the first place, like I used to when making pure mechanical music. I did not search for more electro-motors or musical instruments or Meccano spare parts. This time I have selected short moments taken from musical films of the past. Among the huge musical data bank available I…
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K T K [NO]Oct. 25 @ BLÆST
TEKS’ 10 Years Anniversary: Blæst Thursday October 25 Kjell Bjørgeengen – live video Kim Myhr – electronics, objects, guitar Tor Haugerud – percussion, objects K T K works in a greyzone between sound, image and architecture. With multiple monitors placed around the room, and a wide variety of sound objects, K T K creates an immersive, audiovisual space. The video is generated by sound signals: both by Kjell Bjørgeengen’s own Doepfer system, and by the sounds provided by Kim Myhr and Tor Haugerud. Bjørgeengen has extensive experience…
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JOAKIM BLATTMANN MOLDESTAD [NO]Oct. 25 @ BLÆST
Mossworks TEKS 10 Years Anniversary: Blæst Thursday October 25 Joakim Blattmann Moldestad often works with field recordings, treated sounds, various stringed instruments and drone elements as returning components. Sometimes he records and performs under the name Mossworks.
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TARFIELD [NO]Oct. 25 @ BLÆST
Arnfinn Killingtveit & Martin Palmer TEKS’ 10 Years Anniversary: Blæst Thursday October 25 TARFIELD is Arnfinn Killingtveit and Martin Palmer. With a focus on extra-dimensional electro-acoustics, probability theory, field recordings, pure chance, and Pure Data they strive for motion and never to repeat themselves.
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