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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
«The Digital Cucumber» is a family performance that addresses economic bubbles, media technological echo chambers, AI, and the value of daring to fail and taking ownership of those failures. Among other things. The story follows the development leading up to the launch of «The Digital Cucumber,» an AI that promises ...
The project explores the Western world’s unarticulated relationship with the female breast, through medical and health research, literature, art, politics, history, popular culture, and through transcribed interviews with women who have undergone cosmetic or medically justified breast surgery. Created by the undersigned in collaboration with Song Circus, composer Laura Bowler ...
«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 ...
“Anatomy of Sound” is the concept that permeates all of Song Circus´ artistic work during the period 2014-2018, and it contains eight projects and fifteen composers. The repertoire focuses on the expansion of the register of expression and sound available to the human voice. In addition, Anatomy of Sound suggests ...
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 ...
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” – ...
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 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 ...