PROGRAMME
18:00
Oslo String Quartet – If I were your bowed twin
Performers:
Geir Inge Lotsberg – violin
Liv Hilde Klokk – violin
Magnus Boye Hansen – viola
Øystein Sonstad – cello
Program:
Martin Rane Bauck – vær jord nå og aftensang (2023) for string quartet and electronics, world premiere
Marte Røyeng – Lokkopp (2023) for string quartet, world premiere
Martin Hirsti-Kvam – Fourth quartet (2020/23) for string quartet, electronics, video and lights
Martin Hirsti-Kvam – Four part motet (2023 )for string quartet and electronics, world premiere
Jonas Skaarud – Transparent fabric (2023) for string quartet and electronics, world premiere
20:00
NeoQuartet – Modern Multicultural Quartet
Performers:
NeoQuartet:
Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka – acoustic and electric violin
Paweł Kapica – acoustic and electric violin
Michał Markiewicz – acoustic and electric viola
Krzysztof Pawłowski – acoustic and electric cello
Modern Multicultural Quartet is a project designed to present modern/innovative facets of string quartet setting. Starting point of classical acoustic instruments is moved through musical evolution and progress toward electronic medium with unlimited sound possibilities. All these transmutations are presented from Persian, Middle-European and Nordic perspectives and with the visualizations by Polish video artists Aleksandra Ołdak and Aleksandra Chciuk.
Program:
Agnes Ida Pettersen (NO) – Rhei for string quartet and electronics (2021)
Paweł Hendrich (PL) – Thall’Em All for string quartet and electronics (2022)
Anna Sowa (PL) – The Polish Chair for electric string quartet, audio playback and video (2022), video – Aleksandra Chciuk
Tze Yeung Ho (NO) – vihik (i) for electric string quartet and speakers (2021)
Idin Samimi Mofakham (IR) – Crystallum for string quartet and electronics (2021)
Martyna Kosecka (PL) – Arkhe: Noise Maps for amplified string quartet, electronics and 3D mapping (2021), 3D mapping – Aleksandra Ołdak
17:00 – 22.00
NEOARTE MARATHON
ANIA KARPOWICZ
JENNIFER TORRENCE
DARIUSZ MAZUROWSKI
TROND REINHOLDTSEN
PARALLAX & HEATHER FRASCH
17.00 – Kirke
Presentation of electronic music created by the participants of workshops for kids
Curator:
Krzysztof Arszyn Topolski
During the workshop on listening to sounds and creating field recordings, the participants created their own electronic compositions. These mini-works will be presented to the audience gathered in Kulturkirken Jakob.
17.15 – Kirke
ANIA KARPOWICZ – Tova
Program:
Marta Śniady (PL) – 4 Rituals of Women’s Happiness 2.0 for flute, live electronics & video (2020)
Nina Fukuoka (PL) – Zansei for flute, live electronics & video (2020)
Teoniki Rożynek (PL) – SCREAM for flute, live electronics & video (2020)
Aleksandra Kaca (PL) – Inner for flute, live electronics & video (2020)
TOVA — The cyber flute recital is the result of close cooperation between the flutist Ania Karpowicz and young composers: Marta Śniady, Nina Fukuoka, Aleksandra Kaca and Teoniki Rożynek.
Each of the artists, taking up the topic of searching for the sources of one’s identity, has put her personal experiences into the works and interpretations, which — as it happened — are experiences of women.
18.00 – Krypt
JENNIFER TORRENCE – Dwell
Program:
Thrainn Hjalmarsson (IS) – Doux miroir / Soft mirror for conical claves (2022 – 2023), world premiere
Celeste Oram (US) – _ . . / . _ _ / . / . _ . . / . _ . . / (DWELL) (2018)
Inga Margrete Aas (NO) – 3 staged studies for 1 performer (2023), world premiere
Martin Hirsti-Kvam (NO) – From an Imaginary Landscape (2021)
19.00 – Kirke
DARIUSZ MAZUROWSKI – Artificial Coexistence
Concert of electroacoustic works by Dariusz Mazurowski, performed live by the composer.
Artificial Coexistence concert program is a sonic impression on uncontrolled flow of time, which is
essentially a means to measure events, ordered from the past through the present into the future.
This is our knowledge and experience of time, according to the linear concept. But what if it would
be possible to travel across multidimensional spacetime? Maybe time is not linear, but a much more
complex mechanism? That is the question… Anyway, my goal is not to affix any specifically
detailed description, but to encourage evocations in the listener. This electroacoustic performance
involves live electronics and live sound diffusion combined with acousmatic textures, complex
hybrid processing and many other techniques.
Program:
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter
Bye, Bye, See You Tomorrow
Dossier of Oblivion
Vanishing Signs on the Sky
Eighth Samurai
Kraken Mare
20.00 – Kirke
TROND REINHOLDTSEN – Einzelgänger
A Lied cycle to be heard and read, for Einzelgänger-Wanderer-Emigrant, “The Last Man”, Philosopher-Pianist and robot piano.
Performers:
The Last Man: Halvor F. Melien
Einzelgänger: Trond Reinholdtsen
Philosopher-Pianist: Snorre Hvamen
21.00 – Kirke
PARALLAX & HEATHER FRASCH
Reconfigured Objects
“Reconfigured Objects” is a new collaborative work between Parallax and the electroacoustic composer and performer Heather Frasch, where everyday objects are combined with traditional instruments to create new soundscapes. Everyday objects will be set into motion with motors and vibrating surfaces, attached and hanging by threads so that the kinetic motions are used as sonic material. Electronic circuits and software manipulate and transform the sound of the objects based on the performer’s interaction and will also be extended through the sonic palette of traditional instruments. The compositional thread uniting all the objects will, to some extent, be based on objects with specific memories for the performers, which gives the work a human perspective that connects the old, the hidden and the secret.
19.00
Cikada Ensemble
Performers:
Christian Eggen – conductor
Anne-Karine Hauge – flute
Rolf Borch – clarinet
Bjørn Rabben – percussion
Kenneth Karlsson – piano
Sara Övinge – violin
Johanne Haugland – violin
Bendik Foss – viola
Inga Byrkjeland – cello
Magnus Söderberg – double bass
Program:
Bergrun Snæbjörnsdóttir (IS) – StrangeTurn/Narwhal violin, viola, cello and piano (2019)
Paweł Hendrich (PL) – Prismiris for violin, viola and cello (2018)
Klaus Lang (DE) – koto-in for ensemble (2023), world premiere
At the center of Cikada’s concert at the NeoArte festival is the premiere of Klaus Lang’s koto-in. The work is a piece of sounding architecture, inspired by Japanese aesthetics as represented in the temple of the same name. Cikada will also play chamber music works by Icelandic Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir and Polish Paweł Hendrich. Snæbjörnsdóttir’s Strange Turn / Narwhal was inspired by a phrase found in Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology: “Two kinds of weird: a turning and a strange appearing, and a third kind, the weird gap between the two”. Hendrich’s Prismiris alludes to optics (“prism” and “iris”) : ornaments which sparkle more and more against the background of disappearing simple rhythms, like opalescent colors created as a result of iridescence on the multilayered surface of transparent or translucent bodies as a consequence of light interference.
Neo Edu Arte – educational program
21 – 24.03.2023, Workshops in Oslo
Idea of the program – click here
Mentors
Trond Reinholdtsen (NO)
Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir (IS)
Martyna Kosecka (PL)
Idin Samimi Mofakham (IR)
Paweł Hendrich (PL)
NeoQuartet (PL)
Anna Proszowska-Sala (PL)
Participants:
Vanessa Isobel Black (NO)
Anders Hannevold (NO)
Ása Önnu Ólafsdóttir (IS)
Przemysław Pacek (PL)
Kristján Steinn Kristjánsson (IS)
Hubert Gabriel Żmudzki (PL)
Workshop schedule:
21.03.2023
Gamle Raadhus Scene, 10.00 – 16.00
Introduction, 20 minutes presentaion of each participant (young composers, composers mentors, NeoQuartet)
22.03.2023
Gamle Raadhus Scene, 10.00 – 16.00
Lectures of composers mentors
23.03.2023
Gamle Raadhus Scene, 10.00 – 16.00
Workshops with NeoQuartet – presentation of instruments, devices, techniques
24.03.2023
Sentralen, 10.00 – 16.00
Carieer coaching – workshops with Anna Proszowska-Sala
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