Posting this only hours after entering a new year, 2016 is for me looking back on projects both in Norway and abroad.
JANUARY
Early 2016, the collaboration (SHMF-019..) emerged with this LP.
Late 2015 I was engaged in a collaborative project initiated by
Kommissar Hjuler und Frau based in Flensburg, Germany. We were to
respond to a CD track with german spoken words, parts reading, parts
discussing George Mead's sociological theory of
The Generalized Other, a concept used in the field of symbolic interactionism.
My response is a short piece for a music box, based upon the words Die Verallgemeinerte Anderen (The Generalized Other).
This was done by isolating the letters C, D, E, F, G, A, B in the text
and using them in a notational system to indicate pitch. The melody was
then played with a PRIRI-technique.
P-R-I-RI indicates the many ways a musical piece can
be played. P stands for Prime (the original version of the melody), R
is Retrograde (backwards), I is inversion (melody is flipped around the
first note in the melody) and RI is Retrograde Inversion (being the
flipped version played backwards).
All of which is easy and
possible to do on a music box.
In this case the first 13 notes (D-E-E-A-G-E-E-E-E-A-D-E-E) are Prime, then starts retrograde, and so on.
The LP has an exclusive edition of 100.
APRIL
Raume für notizen festival documentation from 2014 and 2016was published.
I participated in 2014
exhibiting a series of 20 drawings of the series entitled Horizon. No Horizon at galerie wechselstrom, and a performance of the project Ghosts/Local Colour at Alte
Schmiede together with Stine Janvin Motland and Maximilian Ölz.
Read more about it here.
MAY
This beautiful poetry project initiated by Laura Elliot and Angus Sinclair,
para·text, issue #2 was released in London. My contribution was a new take on the two
Dada Manifestoes by Hugo Ball, from November 2015. This time I re-installed the two paper strips compositions back to the original paper format.
SEPTEMBER
Participation
in
the New York based Coldfront Magazine.
Curated by Nico Vassilakis,
Coldfront reports on poetry, language and music, and publishes visual
poetry. Projects presented is Dada Manifesto and The Great Treatise.
OCTOBER
The by far biggest project this year was my participation in
Sound of a Cage. 3 days of exhibitions, performances, workshops and seminars in Stavanger, Norway. This triennale, circeling around John Cage's work and legacy, and impressively put together by Liv Runesdatter, was this year dedicated to sound poetry.
I exhibited my Dada Manifesto compositions; 9 music boxes and 9 scrolls, performing two of them on the opening night.
From the
program: The idea of “texts without words”, text as phonetic sound, detached from
semantics, can be traced back to the Futurist and Dada movements in the
1920s and 30s. Kurt Scwitter’s “Ursonata” is one of the first known
examples of sound poetry. Later on, the art form developed in the beat
cultures where well-known names such as Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and
Brion Gysin started using cassette recordings. European examples were
found in France, Italy and United Kingdom, and names such as Bob Cobbing
in the UK and Henri Chopin in France were significant figures. In
Sweden a peculiar form of sound poetry developed, known as
“text-sound-composition”. Behind it were persons with links to Radio
Sweden and Fylkingen-groups, such as Åke Hodell and Sten Hanson.
Other participants were:
Stine Janvin Motland, Signe Irene Stangborli Time, Sindre Bjerga, Karin Hellandsjø, Else Olsen Storesund, Liv Runesdatter, Anita Kaasbøll, Jaap Blonk, Dylan Nyoukis, Luke Poot, Nina Elisabeth Børke, Jasmijn Visser and more.
I also got to present my work at Kunstskolen i Rogaland (KiR). Engaged and eager students made it an experience I would not be hesitant to repeat.
2017
So, what about 2017?
There's is for a fact some unconfirmed projects out there.
Amongst them ten new scores for an outdoor project in Ontario, Canada.
Stay updated for more info on this one.
This site is my archive in miniature, since 2009.
Feel free to spend some time here.
Look, listen, loathe or love.
Happy New Year!