nyMusikk podcast

Viktor Bomstad - Joik in experimental contexts

Joiker and guitarist Viktor Bomstad discusses his practices with joik in experimental contexts, including his use of Sámi archival materials, joik and improvisation, his works Sámi Noise and Mosku, and more.
 
By: Jennifer TorrenceWith: Viktor Bomstad
Sound: excerpts from Sámi Noise and Djevelens Folk by Viktor Bomstad, and Spiritual Community by Sex Magick Wizards. Used with permission from the artists.
Photo: Erik Brandsborg (photo) and Viktor Bomstad (collage)

Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music

Guitarist and researcher Kobe van Cauwenberghe discusses the life and music of Anthony Braxton, with a particular focus on the work Ghost Trance Music, and the unique realization created by Ictus Ensemble in collaboration with Rosas Dance Company.
By: Jennifer TorrenceWith: Kobe van Cauwenberghe
Sound: Ghost Trance Music, performed by Ghost Trance Septet and released on el NEGOCITO Records. Used with permission from the artists.
Photo: From Ghost Trance Music, Composition No. 356.

Pade at 100

Henrik Marstal discusses the work and life of Danish electronic music pioneer Else Marie Pade, who would have turned 100 this year.
By: Jennifer TorrenceWith: Henrik Marstal
Sound: Symphonie Magnetophonique (1958) and Face It (1970), by Else Marie Pade, used with permission from Edition S.

Marko Ciciliani: Transmedial Storytelling

Composer, intermedia artist, and performer Marko Ciciliani discusses his work Why Frets?, transmedial storytelling, and music in the expanded field.
 
By: Jennifer Torrence
Featuring: Marko Ciciliani
Sound: Why Frets?, used with permission from the artist.Image: Marko Ciciliani: Why Frets? - Tombstone

Luis Fernando Amaya: Composing to connect to the more-than-human

Composer and musician Luis Fernando Amaya discusses the possibility of "composing to connect with the more-than-human", including to nature, objects, and others.
By: Jennifer TorrenceWith: Luis Fernando Amaya
Sound: Luis Fernando Amaya (Cortahojas, available on Bandcamp.)

My Instrument is Amazing

Three portraits of three artists who work with instrument building and/or the relationship between the musician and instrument to make experimental music: Ragnhild May, Guoste Tamulynaite and Jo David Meyer Lysne.
By: Jennifer TorrenceFeaturing: Ragnhild May, Guoste Tamulynaite and Jo David Meyer Lysne
Sound: All sound used with permission from the artists.Photo: Barbara Katzin

Fredrik Rasten – being with sound

Fredrik Rasten discusses his work Six Moving Guitars, and his interest in collectivity, just intonation, repetition, and "being with sound".
Hosted by: Jennifer TorrenceFeaturing: Fredrik Rasten
Sound: Six Moving Guitars and Lineaments (by Rasten, released on SOFA)

Lene Grenager – reconstruction

Lene Grenager discusses her series of compositions titled reconstruction, and her interest in the embroidered scores, the sound of machines, and physicality.
Hosted by: Jennifer TorrenceFeaturing: Lene Grenager
Sound: Reconstruction II and excerpts from Mixed Handedness, released on +3dB Records)

(E03) The composer in an urban landscape: Martin Hirsti-Kvam

Composer Martin Hirsti-Kvam is interested in the listener's perspective and the use of technology in creating a listening situation.
Produced by nyMusikk and hosted by Jennifer Torrence. Recordings: Martin Hirsti-Kvam: Through Imaginary Landscapes (2021), with Ensemble Adapter, Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen and Jennifer Torrence at Darmstadt Summer Courses 06.08.2021.

(E02) The composer in an urban landscape: Luigi Russolo

Hosted by Jennifer Torrence. Featuring composer and musicologist Luciano Chessa and artistic director Bjørnar Habbestad in nyMusikk. Recordings: Macchina Lirica (1925), by F.T. Marinetti, performed by Luciano Chessa, and Music for The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners & Electronics (2023) by Gerard Lebik and Alexandra Słyz, performed in Sokolowsko, Poland, august 2023.