April 9th we will be hosting a new edition of Notam Nights. This evening the program will consist of "Mekanisk messing - Disembodied harmonies" by and with Peder Simonsen, a concert with Irine Røsnes and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, and works by Tulle Ruth, Vilbjørg Broch and Totaleee in our spatial audio 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 - 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 - Gallery space
Concert: Mekanisk messing - disembodied harmonies by and with Peder Simonsen.
18:00 - 22:00 - Spatial Audio studio
Jukebox with Vilbjørg Broch, Tulle Ruth and Totaleee (Paolo Montella, Andrea Laudante and Giuseppe Pisano-Riise).
About the artists
Tuba player and composer Peder Simonsen presents Mekanisk messing - 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. 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.
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.
Vilbjørg Broch is a Danish artist who studied dance and improvisation at SNDO in Amsterdam, and classical singing with coloratura soprano Marianne Blok for over a decade. Broch has been working with multimedia projects for the past 30 years, starting with computer music over 20 years ago. Broch has had her work presented at international conferences. She has been in residence and presented work at CCRMA Stanford, IEM Graz, Notam Oslo, EMS Stockholm and ICST Zurich.
Tulle Ruth (b. 1962, Denmark) is a visual artist working with sculpture and installations that incorporate sound. Her artistic practice explores themes related to everyday communication, utilising a diverse range of methods including science, field recording, 3D sound and experimental techniques. Ruth treats the whole landscape as both material and exhibition space for her work. Her interdisciplinary approach and collaborations cut across different fields. Her roles as an artist include sculptor, performer, producer and curator, with a particular focus on emphasising sound art.
Totaleee is a trio of laptop performers and acousmatic music composers consisting of Giuseppe Pisano, Andrea Laudante, and Paolo Montella. Their approach to composition relies heavily on an ongoing dialogue about form, structure, and materials to enable a method of collaboration that is both philosophical and artistic.
