MYRIAM BLEAU

Dokkhuset / March 7, 2020 @ 20:30 / TICKETS

MYRIAM BLEAU [ca]
HYPERMOBILITY

Hypermobility is an audivisual performance combining distilled techno allusions with volumetric laser projections. Hyperkinetic patterns of morphing synthesis are visualized through a laser beam creating sculpted planes of light above the audience. Hypermobility refers both to extreme physical flexibility and to the addictive concept of hypermobile travel, frequent trips often over great distances and the alarming environmental impact.

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Photo: Severin Smith

Myriam Bleau is a composer, digital artist and performer based in Montreal. She creates audiovisual systems that go beyond the screen, such as sound installations and performance-specific musical interfaces. Her hybrid electronic practice investigates music performance as a codified cultural manifestation and recontextualizes pop culture elements and music history tropes. Her work has been recognized and presented internationally : Prix Ars Electronica (AT), Sónar (ES, HK), Sonic Arts Award (IT), Elektra (CA), Mutek (MX, BR, CA, JP), Transmediale (DE), ACT (KR), L.E.V. (ES), Scopitone (FR), Cafe Oto (UK).

DRONE OPERATØR & METTE RASMUSSEN & LASSE MARHAUG

Dokkhuset / March 7, 2020 @ 20:30 / TICKETS

DRONE OPERATØR [de] & METTE RASMUSSEN [no/dk] & LASSE MARHAUG [no]
PERFORMANCE FOR DRONE, SAXOPHONE AND NOISE

Conceptual jazz duo Drone Operatør presents a performance for Drone and musicians, featuring the Norwegian saxophone player, Mette Rasmussen, and Norwegian noise artist Lasse Marhaug.

Mette Rasmussen is a saxophone player situated in Trondheim, Norway, but born and raised in Denmark. Last 7 years, she has been touring the road most of the year, all over the world. From Australia to Japan, Singapore, USA, Canada, Russia, Scandinavia, UK and Europe.

Her ability to move between the often strict confines of genres and explore sound and texture in solo affairs aswell as in collaborations, has been the foundation of creating her own personal vision of the role of the saxophone. Her performances ties together audience and artist, and embodies the energy between the two.

In the recent year she has been touring with among others Godspeed You! Black Emperor throughout France, Australia and USA, Chris Corsano troughout Europe and Japan, Sofia Jernberg throughout Australia, her own Quintet cosisting of Torbjörn Zetterberg and Johan Berthling on bass, Raymond Strid and Paul Lytton on drums, The Hatch with guitarist Julien Desprez, in duo with Tashi Dorji and been doing an extensively amount of solo shows all over the world. And been in projects and doing collaborations with among others and to name a few; MoE, Craig Taborn, Barry Guy, Michiyo Yagi and Kaiji Haino.

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Lasse Marhaug (b. 1974) has since the early 1990s been one of the most active artists in the Norwegian noise/experimental music scene. As a performer and composer he has contributed to well over 300 CD, vinyl and cassette releases over the years, as well as extensive touring and performing live on all continents of the world. In addition to his solo work, Marhaug has collaborated with many artists in the fields of noise, experimental, improv, jazz, rock and extreme metal, as well as working with music and sound for theatre, dance, installations, cinema and video. In 1990 Marhaug ran the TWR Tapes and Jazzassin Records labels.

In the 2000s he ran the record labels Pica Disk and Prisma Records. In 2011 he started his own print publishing Marhaug Forlag. He has also been active as an organizer, promoter, producer and visual artist. Marhaug was born and currently lives in Bodø, a city above the arctic circle in Norway.

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DRONE OPERATØR is the musical venture of artists Paul Barsch [de] and Tilman Hornig [de] that started its prolific career as a conceptual kleptomaniac post digital free jazz outfit about 3 years ago. Since then they have created several live Performances featuring Jazz musicians and drones and more than 280 songs or 16 hours of experimental and free form quasi-jazz, respectively, that are continuously released on SoundCloud.

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Drone operated @ Dokkhuset by INBOVI 

HILDE MARIE HOLSEN

Dokkhuset / March 7, 2020 @ 20:30 / TICKETS

HILDE MARIE HOLSEN [no]
EOCENE

Piece commissioned by inaGRM, first performed with the Acousmonium at La Maison de la Radio France, in June 2019. All of the sounds in the piece are generated live from the trumpet, and live processed and spatialized on stage.

Photo: Espen Koen Webjørnsen

Norwegian Hilde Marie Holsen has carved out something very particular and niche in music. Processing her trumpet in the electronic realm, she blends the mournful tone of the brass instrument with the explorative field of electronic music to make music that lists somewhere between jazz, the contemporary and drone music. Holsen’s music has unpicked the frayed boundaries of traditions, calling in a new generation of artists that abandoned stale and repetitive conventions in favour of establishing something unique, in the realms of contemporary music.

Holsen’s debut album «Ask» was released on the Norwegian label Hubro in 2015, and hit the shelves with critical acclaim from amongst others The Guardian, The Wire and The Quietus. Since then, she’s gone on to perform on a number of world stages, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians, while also continuing her work in the recorded field. In 2018, Holsen followed up with her second solo album, «Lazuli», also released on Hubro, and was claimed to be «an almost shockingly complete musical statement».

Hilde Marie Holsen has played at numerous festivals and venues such as Punkt festival (NO), Ultima Contemporary Music Festival (NO), 12Points (Ir/Es), OsloJazz (NO), Rewire (NL) and London Jazz Festival (UK), as well as toured in Europe with concerts in a.o. Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, France and Germany, both as a solo artist and together with musicians and bands such as FOOD, Morten Qvenild, Maja S.K. Ratkje, Sarah-Jane Summers, Lynn Cassiers, Samuel Rohrer, Silent Fires and Bilayer.

Hilde Marie Holsen has also had the chance to work with different commissions; in 2017 she worked with two commission pieces for two different festivals – Ultima Contemporary Music Festival and Førdefestivalen. Holsen has also composed music for art movies, and in 2019 she composed and performed a piece with the Acousmonium at inaGRM, Paris.

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Header photo: Ruben Olsen

GYRID NORDAL KALDESTAD & HILDE MARIE HOLSEN DUO

Dokkhuset / March 7, 2020 @ 20:30 / TICKETS

GYRID NORDAL KALDESTAD [no] / HILDE MARIE HOLSEN [no]

Holsen and Kaldestad ́s soundscapes grow out of small, amplified sounds of metal, water and wood, trumpet, voice and words. Their sounds build up massive textures of ambient sounds mixed with crackling and whispering sounds. They had their first performance at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo in November 2019.

Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad is a composer from the island of Stord on the west coast of Norway. Her background is in improvisation and electroacoustic music, working with voice / song, live electronics, field recording and text writing for use in songs and installations. She has been working as a composer and musician with theatre and dance performances where live electronics and electroacoustic soundscapes has been a key part of the expression.

Gyrid is concerned with the relationship between the pure acoustic sound and various degrees of processing. Her main focus is working with sound and text in different forms (installations, concerts, improvisation), and is using custom made amplified objects of different kinds as instruments and loudspeakers. Her collaborators in recent years include commissions from the Montreal based percussion quartet Architek Percussion, and the London- based violinist Mira Benjamin, collaborative projects with Are Lothe Kolbeinsen and Anne Hytta in her trio Kaldestad, and the project Processing the surroundings with composers Tine Surel Lange and Kristin Bolstad. In November 2019 she started as an Artistic Research Fellow at NTNU, Institute for Music, department of Music Technology.

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Norwegian Hilde Marie Holsen has carved out something very particular and niche in music. Processing her trumpet in the electronic realm, she blends the mournful tone of
the brass instrument with the explorative field of electronic music to make music that lists somewhere between jazz, the contemporary and drone music. Holsen’s music has unpicked the frayed boundaries of traditions, calling in a new generation of artists that abandoned stale and repetitive conventions in favour of establishing something unique, in the realms of contemporary music.

Holsen’s debut album «Ask» was released on the Norwegian label Hubro in 2015, and hit the shelves with critical acclaim from amongst others The Guardian, The Wire and The Quietus. Since then, she’s gone on to perform on a number of world stages, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians, while also continuing her work in the recorded field. In 2018, Holsen followed up with her second solo album, «Lazuli», also released on Hubro, and was claimed to be «an almost shockingly complete musical statement».

Hilde Marie Holsen has played at numerous festivals and venues such as Punkt festival (NO), Ultima Contemporary Music Festival (NO), 12Points (Ir/Es), OsloJazz (NO), Rewire (NL) and London Jazz Festival (UK), as well as toured in Europe with concerts in a.o. Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, France and Germany, both as a solo artist and together with musicians and bands such as FOOD, Morten Qvenild, Maja S.K. Ratkje, Sarah-Jane Summers, Lynn Cassiers, Samuel Rohrer, Silent Fires and Bilayer.

Hilde Marie Holsen has also had the chance to work with different commissions; in 2017 she worked with two commission pieces for two different festivals – Ultima Contemporary Music Festival and Førdefestivalen. Holsen has also composed music for art movies, and in 2019 she composed and performed a piece with the Acousmonium at inaGRM, Paris.

hildeholsen.com