nyMusikk podcast
nyMusikk is a Norwegian organization whose main purpose is to promote the radical, experimental and genre-crossing music throughout Norway.
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Episodes

Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
36 min
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)

Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024
37 min
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.

Oct 10, 2024
Oct 10, 2024
39 hr 13 min
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.

May 29, 2024
May 29, 2024
33 min
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
Feb 21, 2024
Feb 21, 2024
34 min
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.)

Feb 5, 2024
Feb 5, 2024
1 hr 8 sec
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

Jan 19, 2024
Jan 19, 2024
32 min
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)

Jan 19, 2024
Jan 19, 2024
28 min
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)
Nov 10, 2023
Nov 10, 2023
24 min
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.
Sep 28, 2023
Sep 28, 2023
23 min
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.

nyMusikk
nyMusikk is Norway’s centre for contemporary music.
Contemporary music, or experimental music / art music, can refer to ensemble music, electronic music, sound art, noise, improvisation and musical theatre among many things.
Our organization was founded in 1938 as the Norwegian section of ISCM, International Society for Contemporary Music.
nyMusikk’s main purpose was, and still is:
To promote the radical, experimental and genre-crossing music throughout Norway.
This is accomplished through live music, screenings, installations, artist conversations, performances and lectures etc.

