On Saturday 18 April, Nuts And Bolts presents the world premiere of the commissioned work “Writing in Water, Singing the Clouds” by Jenny Berger Myhre and a performance by Cory Arcangel & Busy Gangnes.
Programme:
18:00 - Doors open
18:30 - Cory Arcangel & Busy Gangnes: performance
19:00 - Jenny Berger Myhre: world premiere of commissioned work “Writing in Water, Singing the Clouds”
Where: Notam (Myrens verksted 3A, 0476 Oslo)
Free entry
Jenny Berger Myhre - Writing in Water, Singing the Clouds
Writing in Water, Singing the Clouds is an attempt to create a meditative state where air is allowed to flow through the bodies, instruments and speakers present, creating shifting textures of sound - like thoughts coming and going, or clouds drifting by in the sky. Jenny has created a simple, portable pipe organ, like an extension of her own lungs, to play alongside her main instrument: the clarinet. The instrument is a “l'oeuvre à faire”, something that is constantly changing, unfinished and a work in progress, shaped by how it is interacted with and what materials Jenny has found and acquired along the way. These sound sources are further sampled and transformed with granular synthesis and digital processing, and combined with recordings from the organ in Vålerenga Church. Writing in Water(...) is a textural piece of music that reflects on breath and transformation. Inspired by Anne Carson's “Lecture on Skywriting”, the Greek poet Sappho, and the rewarding feeling of doing something for the first time: this commissioned work is an exploration of music making (and therefore: listening) as meditation.
Jenny Berger Myhre is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound, video and photography. As a performer, she strives to create a space for listening together, removing expectations of virtuosity in music by focusing on the sounds and the mental images they create in us - inspired by listening as a relational activity: a way of connecting to the world and to others. She has released 3 solo albums (“Lint”, 2017; “Here Is Always Somewhere Else”, 2022; “You Could Totally Be Next To Me”, 2025), as well as the duo album “Flutter Ridder” with Espen Friberg (2025) and “Interstitial” (“2023) with Oh No Noh + F.S.Blumm. Jenny has previously been commissioned by Borealis - A festival for experimental music (Bergen), Radiophrenia (Glasgow), BEK - Bergen Electronic Arts Centre, Insomnia (Tromsø) and Skanu Mezs (Riga).
Cory Arcangel & Busy Gangnes
After performing together just once in 2019 as part of Stavanger's legendary 8.00 concert series Live At Kaffetrykkeri, Cory Arcangel and Busy Gangnes reunite for a free improvisation set. Their previous concert was a legendary vinyl release on Sentimental Education Records. Expect loose associations, browser tabs and other unruly stuff. Busy Gangnes is a musician, percussionist and dancer who has toured with Deerhoof and been part of the synthwave duo Telepathe. Cory Arcangel is an artist, composer and aspiring Youtuber. Both live and work in Oslo, Norway.
Illustration: Zarina Saidova
