On 09 April, we invite you to a new edition of Notam Nights here with us. On the programme this evening is Mechanical brass - Disembodied harmonies by Peder Simonsen and a concert with Irine Røsnes and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay. In addition, we play works by Tulle Ruth, Vilbjørg Broch and Giuseppe Pisano-Riise in our broadcast studio.
Where: Notam (Myrens Verksted 3A).
When: Doors open at 17:30. The event starts at 18:00.
Free entry.
Programme
18:00 - 18:45 - Notam's project room
Concert with Irine Røsnes and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.
Desire lines (2019-25) by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.
Violostries (1964) by Devy Erlih and Bernard Parmegiani.
Bucolic & Broken (2016-17) by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.
19:30 - 20:15 - Notam's communication room
Concert: Mechanical brass - disembodied harmonies by and with Peder Simonsen.
About the artists
Tuba player and composer Peder Simonsen presents Mechanical brass - disembodied harmonies a work for mechanical trombones and electronics. The piece is based on mechanical wind instruments that use artificial lips and air supply to generate sound in converted trombones. They consist of 3D-printed components, silicone membranes, plastic and brass tubes, as well as reused parts from both new and broken instruments, and were developed in collaboration with Notam and Vincent Freour.
Peder Simonsen is a Norwegian musician, composer and instrument builder working in improvised and experimental music. His practice revolves around clean tuning, microtonality and the material presence of sustained tones. Through sustained timbres, slow harmonic shifts and subtle interference patterns, he explores how overtones and architectural acoustics shape the listening experience. He plays in Microtub and in duo with Jo David Meyer Lysne and also develops self-playing brass works, including custom-built mechanical trombones.
Irine Røsnes is a violinist, ensemble leader and artistic researcher based in Østfold. Her work explores what it means to be a violinist today - at the intersection of tradition, experimentation and technology. In particular, she works with the relationship between body, instrument and electronics, and develops performative practices where the acoustic and the digital enter into a dynamic interplay.
Røsnes has been a violinist in The Drift Ensemble (music for acoustic and digital instruments) and in the critically acclaimed Frame Ensemble (improvisation for silent film). She has performed works in the complexity tradition, including works by James Dillon, and collaborated with composers such as Simon Emmerson, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay and Kaja Bjørntvedt. At the same time, she has worked with early music through the Baroquans and the New Philharmonie Utrecht, which gives her contemporary practice a historically conscious grounding.
She has performed at festivals such as Borealis, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Gaudeamus, and combines performing with curatorial and outreach work. Røsnes has taught and led artistic research projects at the University of Huddersfield and the University of Wolverhampton and was director of the Yorkshire Sound Women Network. Her PhD thesis The Electrified Violining Body (2023) develops an ecosystemic approach to the performance of mixed music, and contributes to expanding the violin's expressive space - aesthetically, technologically and socially.
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Montréal, 1975) is a composer and musician. He studied composition with Michel Tétreault, Marcelle Deschênes and Jonty Harrison, bass guitar with Jean-Guy Larin, Sylvain Bolduc and Michel Donato, analysis with Michel Longtin and Stéphane Roy, and studio engineering with Francis Dhomont, Robert Normandeau and Jean Piché.
After 19 years in Huddersfield, where he worked on Fluid Corpus Manipulation, Tremblay is now Professor of Composition at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. He has previously worked in popular music as a producer and bassist, and has a strong interest in creative coding.
