Tickets: 150 NOK / Student 100 NOK / Concert start 20:30. Doors opens 19:30.
Festival pass: 4 concert nights, March 10 – 13: 390 NOK / Student 260 NOK
Tickets @ Dokkhuset Scene

MYRIAM BLEAU (CA) /

MARTIN MESSIER (CA) /

HERMAN KOLGEN (CA)

Myriam Bleau, Montreal, is a composer, digital artist and performer who explores the borders between musical performance and digital arts. She works within a hybrid electronic practice of hip hop, techno, and pop elements, and constructs audiovisual systems that integrate sound, light and movement in order to blur the notions of instrument, interface, installation and performance.

Myriam Bleau will perform Soft Revolvers, where the instruments are 4 acrylic spinning tops equipped with gyroscopes and accelerometers that communicate wirelessly with a computer to control musical algorithms based on motion data collected from the tops. LED lights inside the tops are positioned to create visually stunning halos and illuminate the body of the objects in precise counterpoint to the music, while real-time video of the tops is subtly manipulated and projected on the screen behind the artist, making the projections an integral part of the performance.

Martin Messier is a composer, performer and video maker exploring the relationship between sound and material. He creates staged sound works where he gives voice to everyday objects, invented machines and bodies in movement. At the heart of his performances is the idea of pushing the everyday imaginary a little further by reinventing the function of objects, and a desire to reverse the hierarchical relations usually tied between music and choreography so that sound becomes the driving force of movements.

At Meta.Morf 2016 Martin Messier will perform his spectacular new work Field, in which he creates sound using electromagnetic fields of our environment. These imperceptible electrical signals are picked up by electromagnetic transducer microphones to drive the performance. His instruments are two big connection patch panels that offer many possibilities for connecting outputs to a variety of inputs. By a continuous movement of plugging and unplugging, Messier interacts with the panels to create a mesmerizing composition of light and sound.

Herman Kolgen is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist with more than two decades on the international media arts scene. An audiocinetic sculptor and a virtuoso of the audiovisual, he draws his raw material from the intimate relationship between sound  and image. Kolgen creates art in the form of installations, video and film, performances and sound sculptures. He works in a constant cycle of exploration, at the crossroads of different media, to conjure up a new technical language and a singular aesthetic. The impact of territories on human life lies at the heart of his conceptual pursuits, and the resulting brutal tensions and the interplay between various elements constitute the epicenter of his practice.

At Meta.Morf Herman Kolgen will perform his two works AfterShock as well as Seismik, a dazzling, tension-charged performance that taps into the Earth’s magnetic fields, seismic activity and frictional resistance in real-time, generating abstracted sound and dramatic visual motifs.

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