Cikada Quartet and guitarist Thomas Kjekstad invites you into the sound of two world premieres.
In this concert, roles and perspectives are exchanged, whether the audience sits around the musicians or the musicians sit around the audience. “If you are lucky, you will become dizzy from the loudspeakers that circle around you and chop up the sound into flickers” says Knut Olaf Sunde about Vertigo Room. In the first performance of têla by Ragnhild Berstad, guitarist Thomas Kjekstad strums the strings with thimbles made of glass. The têla comes from the Latin for web, and a ho- mogeneous web was Georg Fr. Haas’ first idea be- hind String Quartet no. 5 be- fore he, too, decided
to shift perspective by spreading the instruments around the room.
Georg Friedrich Haas (NL): String Quartet No. 5 (2007)
Ragnhild Berstad: Tela for guitar and string quartet (2011) WP
Knut Olaf Sunde: Vertigo Room for string quartet and speakers (2011) WP
Cikada String Quartet
Guitar: Thomas Kjekstad
Supported by the Norwegian Council
Entrance: 150/100
Photo Ragnhild Berstad: Ann Iren Ødeby