Tou Scenes foaje, rommet med de rustne stålveggene, er nå en lydtank hvor man blir omgitt av 4 kanals komposisjoner.
ANNE HILDE NESET er kurator for programmet ENTER. Dykk ned i spesialbestilte komposisjoner fra internasjonalt anerkjente kunstnere og komponister i lydtanken:
KIM GORDON, CAMILLE NORMENT, OREN AMBARCHI, CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE, ANSUMAN BISWAS, MARC PICHELIN, ELLEN FULLMAN, DEATHPROD, CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF og STEPHEN O’MALLEY.
Komposisjonene spiller én dag hver, i Tou Scenes åpningstider.
I samarbeid med The Wire Magazine.
Kim Gordon (USA)
"Song For Reverse Karaoke"
A founding member of the hugely acclaimed alternative rock group Sonic Youth, Gordon is educated visual artist and exhibited widely across the US, Japan and Europe, collaborating with artists such as Dan Graham, Jutta Koether and Tony Oursler. She has recently played parts in feature films such as I'm Not There (Todd Haynes) and Last Days (Gus Van Sant). Her piece for ENTER, "Song For Reverse Karaoke" is taken from the installation Reverse Karaoke by Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether, commissioned by ELECTRA (www.electra-productions.com) as part of Her Noise, South London Gallery, 2005.
Oren Ambarchi (AUSTRALIA)
"Driver"
Ambarchi is a guitarist, drummer and composer with longstanding interest in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. Formerly a member of noise group Phlegm, he has collaborated with Sunn 0))), Keith Rowe, Fennesz, Toshimara Nakamura and many others. His piece for ENTER is an exclusive composition written especially for the Tou foyer.
Camille Norment (USA/NORWAY)
Camille Norment is a multi-media conceptual artist whose work engages the viewer as a physical and psychological participant in the uncanny through the body's negotiations with architectural, optical illusory, sonic, and interactive environments and objects. The conceptual and experiential nature of sound serves as a cornerstone of her practice. Her work is exhibited internationally and has been written about in Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Times, The Wire and numerous other international texts.
Charlemagne Palestine (USA/BELGIUM)
"SYNTHEEESYNTHOOO"
Minimalist composer Charlemagne Palestine is a contemporary of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Phil Niblock. He has composed intense, ritualistic music since the 70s and is best known for his piano performances but he has also used carillion, electronics, vocal, organ and harmonium in his compositions.
Ansuman Biswas (UK)
Ansuman Biswas was born in Calcutta and trained in the UK. He has an
international practice encompassing music, film, live art, installation,
writing and theatre. Biswas has performed with symphony orchestras and homeless beggars. He has shown work at Tate Modern, The South London Gallery, The Whitechapel Gallery, the ICA, the Edinburgh Festival, and also in Johannesburg, San Francisco, New York, Delhi, The Amazon.
Marc Pichelin (F)
"North/South Mix"
Marc Pichelin is interested in electro-acoustic applications in live shows, sound exhibitions and improvisational concerts. Member of Ouie Dire Production, he works to invent unique CD objects such as the sound art post card. His piece for ENTER was presented at Tou Scene for the first time in 2006 and is based on field recordings from North Norway and Laos. "At first sight, everything seems to separate these countries: north/south, cold/hot, rich/poor. Norway has a coast, and Laos not. Still I wanted to juxtapose recordings from the two, using common subjects, thus composing an impossible and poetic double-sided landscape in which I invite you to move around".
Ellen Fullman (US)
In 1981 Ellen Fullman began developing the "Long String Instrument," in which rosin-coated fingers brush across dozens of metallic strings, fifty or more feet in length and installed in a performance space. Fullman has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has collaborated with such luminary figures as composer Pauline Oliveros, choreographer Deborah Hay, the Kronos Quartet, Keiji Haino and Francis-Marie Uitti. Her music was represented in The American Century; Art and Culture, 1950-2000 at The Whitney Museum, and she has performed in venues and festivals in Europe, Japan and North America. Ellen Fullman performed at Tou Scene in august 2008.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Since the end of the 70s, Hausswolff has worked as a composer using the recorder and sine waves as his main instruments, and as a conceptual visual artist working with performance art, light- and sound installations and photography. von Hausswolff's music has been performed throughout Europe and in North America and Asia and collaborators include Graham Lewis (Wire), Andrew McLenzie (The Hafler Trio), Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic), Zbigniew Karkowski, Kim Cascone, Russell Haswell and others and his audio visual installations have been shown in galleries worldwide.
His interest in audio and radio technology also came in light at the 49th Biennale di Venezia in 2001. In a collaborative work with Tommi Grönlund, Petteri Nisunen, Leif Elggren and Anders Tomrén he had constructed a radio receiver that could play all radio transmissions from the Venice area at the same time. Other radio tech works include the usage of scanners and EVP frequencies. In 2003-06 he curated the sound art project “freq_out”, in Copenhagen, Oslo, Paris, Berlin and Chiangmai.
Carsten Nicolai
Casten Nicolai is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between art and science. as a visual artist nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of the sensual perceptions of man by making scientific phenomena like sound and light frequencies perceivable for both eyes and ears. his installations have a minimalistic aesthetic. Nicolai has participated in international exhibitions like Documenta x and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennia, and solo exhibitions in Frankfurt, Berlin, Zurich, London and New York.
Nicolai’s has performed as alva noto and noto internationally and he has projects with artists such as Ryoji Ikeda, Mika Vainio, Ryuichi Sakamoto and others. He also runs the raster noton record label.
Deathprod
A producer and musician, Helge Sten is usually credited with “Audio Virus” on recordings, a catchall term for "homemade electronics, old tape echo machines, theremins, samplers, ring modulators lots of electronic stuff."
Sten is a founding member electric jazz quartet Supersilent and works as a producer on many releases on the Rune Grammofon label, including Susanna & The Magical Orchestra, and has collaborated with Motorpsycho, Biosphere and Arne Nordheim.
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros is a audio pioneer and has explored sound for over 40 years as a composer and performer.
Through improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation she has developed the concept of Deep Listening. Oliveros has been honored with awards, grants and concerts internationally. Whether performing at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC, in an underground cavern, or in the studios of West German Radio, Oliveros' commitment to interaction with the moment is unchanged.
In performance Oliveros uses an accordion which has been re-tuned in two different systems of her just intonation in addition to electronics to alter the sound of the accordion and to explore the individual characteristics of each room. She now serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Darius Milhaud Composer in Residence at Mills College.
Stephen O’Malley
Stephen O'Malley is a producer and guitarist and a founding member of drone/doom metal groups including Sunn O))), Burning Witch, KTL, Khanate and others. He has collaborated with a variety of artists including Greg Anderson, founder of Southern Lord Records and member of Goatsnake, and Burning Witch. O'Malley has also worked with Japanese noise artist Merzbow, guitarist James Plotkin, Julian Cope, Joe Preston, Attila Csihar of Mayhem, Peter Rehberg, Kristoffer Rygg (of Ulver), guitarist Oren Ambarchi, Peter Rehberg and the sculptor Banks Violette on various art installations. He co-runs the Southern Lord label. Originally from Seattle, O'Malley lives in Paris.
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Anne Hilde Neset is Deputy Editor of London based The Wire magazine, a monthly international music publication. She is also the co-founder of Electra Productions, a contemporary art agency specialising in commissioning, producing and exhibiting art projects across disciplines.
Curatorial projects include Her Noise (South London Gallery 2005) and Perfect Partner (London Barbican Centre and international tour 05/06). She has worked closely with artists such Christian Marclay, Daria Martin, Zeena Parkins, Maja Ratkje and many others, as well as devising and teaching Sound And The 20th Century Avant Garde, a lecture series on sound art for Tate Modern.
ENTER is a project of Tou Scene. www.touscene.com
