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Visit the immersive world of #thedigitalecucumber, where the fusion of multimedia and music theatre explores themes crucial to our era. Delve into the realms of bubbles, media technology, and the courage to dream, believe, and even stumble… «The Digital Cucumber» is a family performance that addresses economic bubbles, media technological ...
Since the 1980s, she has explored the unstable elements of sound media, focusing on microtonality and psychoacoustics. The new work, Soar II, investigates the transformation of sound in surrounding spaces. Three female voices and two microtonal string instruments (violin and cello tuned in 1/16) refine timbral qualities that favor the ...
Norwegian-Indian Harpreet Bansal is an outstanding representative of Indian classical music and has received significant international recognition for her deeply personal interpretation of the Indian raga tradition. In the concert project Varsakala, Bansal, the Song Circus trio, and cellist Svante Henrysson perform new music composed by Harpreet Bansal. Varsakala is ...
SERNÉ, RUNESDATTER & SONG CIRCUS This project is a collaboration with the artist Ananda Serné (NL/NO). The work refers to soundscapes that aim to enhance sleep quality and simulate ASMR. Slow-wave sleep is the deepest phase of non-REM sleep. The exhibition project slow wave consists of a sound installation and ...
“This is the world. More beautiful than we like to know, and more fragile, more delicate than we can bear.” The collaboration between Mansur Rajih and Liv Runesdatter spans over ten years, with Liv’s music for Mansur’s poetry being conveyed through more than 350 concerts in Europe, the Middle East, ...
The work takes its cue from François Couperins Leçons de Ténebrès for voices and continuo, written in 1713. The genre Leçons de ténèbres dates back to the renaissance and the Holy Week, when music was performed in the flicker of candlelight; after each ‘leçon’ a light was extinguished, until the darkness, ‘tenebrae’, on good friday, after the last candle. The new work relates to this tradition, and will be performed ...
The connection between six children and nature is explored through improvised dance and movement, showcasing the unique perspective of children as they interact with nature through play. Through the eyes of these young adventurers, we rediscover the world and how to cherish and comprehend our environment. For five third-graders from ...
The liksong from Suldal is perhaps one of the most unique things we have in the Norwegian folk music tradition. In this concert, Song Circus was inspired by the old and deeply fascinating hymn phenomenon from Rogaland. Liksang describes the now-extinct tradition where a small group of singers led rural ...
Ole-Henrik Moe (1966) is an award-winning composer and musician of extraordinary talent and originality. He has composed this concert piece for Song Circus, resonators, and three fiddles performed by Ole-Henrik Moe, Kari Rønnekleiv and Britt Pernille Frøholm (hardanger fiddle). The music has developed through research in collaboration with Ole-Henrik and ...
Catherine Lamb is one of the most sought-after composers of her generation. She explores the mathematics of harmony through the physical, material world. Through musical constructions, she connects the sonic with the tactile and visual. She investigates the interplay between tones, the summation of forms and shadows, phenomenological extensions, the ...
A Vardøger is traditionally seen as a protective spirit or companion that precedes a person, warning of their arrival or impending dangers. Today, it often refers to a premonition indicating someone is about to appear. A group of songs within folk music consists of prayers for good weather for bountiful ...
In this concert performance, Liv Runesdatter introduces two outstanding Arab artists. Writer Mansur Rajih and oud master Ahmad Al Khatib are two important and insightful artistic voices, with life stories, quality, and creative power that resonate across much of the Arab world. Both live in exile, in Stavanger and Gothenburg, ...
Song Circus works with experimental music, sound art, and audiovisual projects, and has cultivated an unusually rich and fascinating sound vocabulary. Song Circus has also created projects in the intersection of concerts, conceptual art, installations, and performances, commissioned by galleries, museums, festivals, cultural producers, and artists. The ensemble has a ...
The starting point for the project is the legendary fiddle tune Graatarslagjet, from Bjerkreim in Rogaland, attributed to the Fuglestad brothers. Gråtaslagjet is the wedding march that became a lament. The story goes that the bridal party was crossing the ice on Ørsdalsvannet when it broke, and the entire party ...
«Birdsongs» are interdisciplinary art projects and concerts with birds (ornithology) as the thematic starting point. Field recordings, migration patterns, behavior, and environment are some of the aspects she has delved into, leaving a mark on the projects. In collaboration with artists, musicians, institutions, and with guidance from experts in ornithology ...
The triennial Sound of a Cage is a collaboration of an interdisciplinary and professional art field. The event will take place in Stavanger, and curator is Liv Runesdatter/CARMA Contemporary Art, Music and Dance. The triennial is built up around the legacy of John Cage and his contemporaries and it combines ...
By and with Stine Janvin Motland (NO), visual artist Jasmijn Visser (NL) and Song Circus (NO) The project’s thematic focus is a phenomenon that arose in the 1960s at the American research centre NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). In 1961, the U.S. activated SOSUS, a system for monitoring underwater ...
This is the world More beautiful than we want to know and more delicate More fragile than we can abide The music is composed by Liv Runesdatter and the poems are by Mansur Rajih (Jemen/NO). The concert piece was commissioned by ICORN and performed at Kapittel, Stavanger International Festival of ...
Sound of a Cage (2010, 2013, 2016) originates from the legacy of the composer, poet, anarchist, and academic John Cage. The festival, curated by Liv Runesdatter, combines the exhibition of art, music, design, film, performance, workshops, lectures, and professional discussions. “Change my way of seeing seeing is about thinking” – ...
20 years ago Liv Runesdatter stumbled across a small collection of old recordings. Hidden on them lay forgotten melodies from a small pietistic laymen’s movement that emerged in eastern Norway in the 1860s, and it marked the start of a passionate affair and study. Since then she has worked on ...
– art exhitibion: photographies, text and multichannel sound installations With this exhibition Runesdatter (sound installations) and Urdal (photographies) tells stories about love, choice and trust. Whether to carry on a great sorrow one does not share with others. Anonymia is about self-image and others´ gaze. How do we want to ...
Ruben Sverre Gjertsen’s (NO) prestigious assignments have already earned him international attention. His work is characterised by a virtuosity on the micro level that distorts expectations as to how instruments and ensembles should sound. In his new work, Landscape with figures II, the room is used in different ways, musicians ...
A prized Norwegian-Azerbaijani collaboration between a group of highly recognized musicians lead by the Norwegian singer and composer Liv Runesdatter and kamanecheh player Elshan Mansurov. Rare Norwegian folksongs meet the traditional classical music of Azerbaijan, the Mugam. Liv Runesdatter – vocals Ehtiram Huseinov – vocals Elshan Mansurov – kamanecheh Alfred ...
A concert project with the intention of performing and showcasing the electro acoustic vocal music of Trevor Wishart. The heart of the concert is the piece “Anticredos” written for 6 voices and multi channel sound design/electronic. The range of the composition is vast, both vocally and aesthetically speaking. The piece ...
“Persefone Perseptions is written by the Norwegian composer Ole-Henrik Moe, for five female voices and an orchestra of wine glasses. The piece is a detailed study of vocal sound surfaces and micro tonality.” Ole-Henrik Moe (1966) has studied violin and composition in Oslo and Paris, as well as biophysics, cognitive ...
– a film and sound installation by Eli Glader (film) and Liv Runesdatter (music/ sound) A commition for Sølvberget Gallery, with première under «Kapittel 10», Stavanger International Festival for Literature and Freedom of Speech, September 2010. A portrait of asylum seekes in transit. Voices in different languages and dialects are ...
– Prisbelønt og kritikerrost musikalsk møte På samme måte som mugam tradisjonen bærer i seg den aserbajdsjanske folkesjelen er de norske folketonene uadskillelige fra de norske røttene, tradisjonene og idehistorien vår. De musikalske strukturene er ulike, men uttrykksmessig og dramaturgisk har de mye til felles. Aserbadsjans shia-tradisjon rommer mye av ...
– Kunstutstilling i foto, lyd og bilde av Liv Runesdatter (lydinstallasjoner/musikk) og Signe Christine Urdal (fotografi) I «Anonymia – Midt i blant oss» forteller Runesdatter og Christine Urdal historier kjærlighet, valg og tillit. Om det å bære på en stor sorg, som en ikke deler med sine nærmeste. Anonymia handler ...
– Film- og lyd-installation av Eli Glader (film) og Liv Runesdatter (musikk/ lyd) «Passasje» hadde premiere på Galleri Sølvberget under Kapittel 10, Stavanger International Festival for Literature and Freedom of Speech, September 2010. Verket er filmet på Dale Asylmottak i Rogaland, opprinnelig et sinnsykeasyl fra 1913, ble tatt i bruk ...
