Art-labyrinth at the Art Academy in Oslo with contemporary flamenco, dance, Chinese table harp, noise, John Cage, a piano giant, a young and promising ensemble and much more.
Ultima’s closing production, EXIT, starts with a wander through many different rooms. The first thing the audience will see and hear is a group of musicians situated on the rooftops surrounding the main entrance to the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. The musicians will lead the audience down the steps, across the river and then back again over Åmodt bridge to another part of the school building.Here the audience will be presented with several rooms to choose from.
In one room, composer Bjarne Kvinsland, musicians Eirik Raude, Markus Hernes and Rolf-Erik Nystrøm and choreographer Anne Grete Eriksen will perform Relatively tranquil , a work based on sounds from Nordmarka Forest.
In another room, pianist Marino Formenti will play a new work by Even Gardner, where traditional piano music is combined with computer-manipulated piano as well as a more classic work.
In a third room the audience will hear Zeng Xiagong play the qin, an ancient Chinese instrument. Together with cellist Tanja Ordning, he will play works that challenge new and ancient stringed instruments.
In a fourth room Ingeleiv Berstad will use one of the black stages for a choreography to ‘absolute silence’. The stage will be clad with soundabsorbing material so that the dancers make no sound as they move around.
In a fifth room, MoHa! will be causing a racket with sharp, mechanical currents combined with abandoned nonchalance, accompanied on this occasion by Barnett & James.
In a sixth room a collaborative project between the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts will be presented: an ensemble concert with choreography. Ensemble Aksiom will perform Toccata and Ciakkoneby Kai Grine Myrann, accompanied by dancers choreographed by master’s degree students from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
In a seventh room the concert concept De Oscura Llama, a flamenco-inspired work by Mauricio Sotelo, will be performed by singer Arcángel, flutist Chrissy Dimitriou , bass player Håkon Thelin, Trío Arbós, clarinettist Carlos Gálvez-Taroncher and percussionist Enric Monfort. Sotelo himself will conduct.
Installed in the eighth room will be twelve short-wave radios, and performances will begin there every hour on the hour. The Intuitive People ensemble will also play Living Room Music by John Cage.
In a ninth room, Asbjørn Blokkum Flø has installed the sound installation RAGNAROK, an attempt to compress the history of Europe and Wagner’s Ringen into one musical, elementary particle.
In a tenth room the audience will be reacquainted with Petr Svarovsky’s installation and performance I Walk The Line from Ultima’s opening produc- tion PRIMA.
In an eleventh room, artist and composer Bjørn Stenvaag will perform his own composition on an extremely unusual instrument that looks best when viewed from on high. The installation entitled 10,000 Peacocks in Foaming Acid will also be on display here.
And, finally, the audience can go home, with their heads filled to the brim with all these impressions.
Mauricio Sotelo (ESP): De obscura Llama voice (cantor), ensemble and sound carriers
(2009)
Trio Arbos:
Piano: Juan Carlos Garvayo (ESP)
Violin: Miguel Borrego (ESP)
Cello: José Miguel Gómez (ESP)
Flamenco Song Arcangel (ESP)
Flute: Chrissy Dimitriou
Clarinet: Carlos Galvez-Taroncher (ESP)
Percussion: Enric (ESP)
Conductor: Mauricio Sotelo (ESP)
Bass: HåkonThelin
MoHa!
Guitars and keyboards: Anders Hana
Drums and Super-Collider 3: Morten J. Olsen
Axiom Ensemble presents music by Kai Grinde Myrann, Martin Rane Bauck etc.
Ensemble Axiom:
Flute: Lynette T. Hansen
Saxophone: Frederick B. Olsen
Trombone: Henry M. Nørstebø
Percussion: Anders K. Hansen
Piano: Jonas Cambie
Guitar: Ole Martin Huser-Olsen
Violin: Oda G. Hilde
Cello: Sverre K. Bauge
Bass: Christian M. Svendsen
Conductor: Kai Grinde Myrann
Dancers from Kunsthøskolen Oslo
Choreographers:
Leif Inge Berstad
Kristin Ryg Helgebostad
Eivind Seljeseth
Dancers to master choreography students Kristin Hægebostad, Leif Inge Berstad, Eivind Seljeseth EXIT:
Stine Eliassen
Maria Freyvoll
Merete Hersvik
Hedda Rivrud
Anja Valseth
Evan Gardner (USA): Variations on a Theme by John Cage WP
Piano: Marino Formenti (ITA)
Electronics: Evan Gardner Feldman lounge
Piano: Marino Formenti (ITA)
Anders Tveit Feldman stretched Installation
Traditional and contemporary works and improvisations
of Qin and works for cello by Helmut Lachenmann (D), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (D), Morton Feldman (USA), Klaus K. Hübler (D) and Tanja Orning
Qin: Zeng Xiaogang (CHI)
Cello: Tanja Orning
Bjarne Kvinnsland: Relatively tranquil for saxophone, two percussion and electronics (2011) WP
Saxophone: Rolf-Erik Nystrom
Percussion: Erik Raude and Markus Hernes
Electronics: Bjarne Kvinnsland
Choreography: Anne Grete Eriksen
Dancers:
-Anette Antal
-Klara Mårtensson
-Ingrid Thorp Eyhtorsdottir
-FS Skogedal Bergerud
-Jonas Pedersen Massager
-Shoya Oeda
Bjørn Steenvaag:
Music for his new instrument NEUTON
Performers: Bjørn Stenvaag and Steinar Yggeseth
Evelina Domnitch (BLR) and Dmitry Gelfand (USA): 10.000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid (2009) Installation
Arne Nordheim: Outpost for 24 trumpets and saxophones from three rooftops (1984)
John Cage (USA): Imaginary Landscapes IV for 12 Short Wave Radio (1951)
Living Room Music (1940)
Performed by: Intuitive people
Asbjørn Flø: RAGNAROK Circuit bending Installation (2011) WP
Henrik Strindberg (SVE): The fifth string for violin (2009) WP
Violin: Karin Hell Qvist
Maki Ishii (JPN): 13 drums (1985)
Erik Fossen Hansen: Percussion
Vinko Globokar (FRA): ? Corporel (1985)
Anders Hansen Kregnes: Percussion
Iannis Xenakis (GRE): Rebound (1987 -88)
Daniel Paulsen: Percussion
I Walk The Line
The installation will be in The Norwegian Opera and Ballet and the Academy in Oslo
during the festival period, for details see PRIMA (in the 8th in the calendar)
PERFORMANCE curator Hanan Benammar:
18.30: Silje Linge Haaland
Silje Linge Haaland works with sculptural experiments together with planned, choreographed events.
http://www.siljelinge.net/
19.30: Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim
The drawings, taken from YouTube, of a boat’s repetitive vertical movement at sea, produced in the spirit of surrealist automatic writing, seeks to be a score of movement; also carrying the possibilitiy to be reproduced in sound.
http://www.cbjordheim.com/
20.30: Arash Saidi and Bror Sander Berg Størseth
Their music is influenced by the works of electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and such bands and artists like Autechre, Aphex Twin and Alva Noto (Carsten Nocolaj) to name a few.
http://www.brorbs.com/
21.30: Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
Superamundane power. The power of determination (adhitthān’ iddhi).
http://www.alejandra-aeron.com/
22.30: Textfukkers
The Textfukkers believes that entertainment is the way of teaching for the new generation.
http://www.artreview.com/profile/textfukkers
In cooperation with the Norwegian Arts Council, National Academy of Oslo, sound network
Supported by the Institut français
Entrance: 200/150