ultima oslo contemporary music festival

7–16 september 2017 14:00 Christian Blom Sing 21:00 asamisimasa 21:00 Charlemagne Palestine wednesday 6 september p. 20 Sentralen/Hvelvet p. 32 Pisaro / Lang thursday 14 september p. 56 Kulturkirken Jakob 17:00 Jana Winderen 14:30, 16:00, 16:30 Kulturkirken Jakob 12:00 Lunchtime concert p. 6 Rats – Secret Soundscapes p. 45 Tøyen Fil og Klafferi of the City 15:00 Cikada Sentralen/ saturday 16 september p. 21 Filidei / Pesson / Lang tuesday 12 september Nylandsbrua Sentralen/Forstanderskapssalen Forstanderskapssalen 12:30 Arne Nordheim 11:30 Ultima Academy 16:00 Compagnie Furinkaï 14:30 Dråpen (The Drop) 17:00 Verdensteatret HANNAH p. 33 Different venues p. 57 Bekkelaget renseanlegg thursday 7 september p. 46 Origami p. 11 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Christian Frederiks plass 17:00 Thora Dolven Balke 17:00 Verdensteatret HANNAH 13:00 Compagnie Furinkaï 19:00 Maja S. K. Ratkje p. 11 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter p. 46 Origami p. 36 All That Respires, Conspires 17:00 Verdensteatret HANNAH p. 22 Revelations (This Early Song) Christian Frederiks plass Unge Kunstneres Samfund p. 11 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (UKS) Kulturkirken Jakob 19:00 Thora Dolven Balke p. 36 All That Respires, Conspires 19:00 Becker/Langgård NEW SKIN 14:00 Lunchtime concert 19:00 Eliane Radigue Sentralen/Hvelvet p. 58 scapegoat / Améi Quartett 19:30 Heiner Goebbels p. 41 Black Box teater p. 14 OCCAM RIVER SALT p. 7 Eislermaterial (Opening concert) Emanuel Vigelands museum 19:30 Synne Skouen Ballerina 19:00 Apartment House p. 15 Den Norske Opera & Ballett 14:00 Verdensteatret Nationaltheatret p. 47 Julius Eastman 20:00 Ryuichi Sakamoto + Fujiko Femenine p. 11 HANNAH 22:00 Opening night afterparty – p. 23 Nakaya + Min Tanaka + 21:00 ensemble ascolta OCA Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Shiro Takatani p. 37 Francesco Filidei p. 9 Dwarfs of East Agouza SALT a•form Kulturkirken Jakob 21:00 Ensemble Musikfabrik 16:00 Ultima Academy Det nye Nasjonalmuseet p. 59 Sentralen/Vinterhagen p. 48 Saunders / Tenney / Feldman / Reich 22:00 Supersilent anniversary concert wednesday 13 september Kulturkirken Jakob 17:00 Ultima Academy friday 8 september p. 25 Sentralen/Marmorsalen p. 60 KHiO 13:00 Eliane Radigue – 12:00 Lunchtime concert p. 38 Alpaca Ensemble 18:00 Håkon Berge p. 10 Virtuoso Listening sunday 10 september Sentralen/Forstanderskapssalen friday 15 september p. 61 bare en stillhet som kaster meg Ultima Academy ut i universet av ensomheten Sentralen/Vinterhagen 12:00 – 16:00 13:00 Ultima Academy 12:00 Lunchtime concert Oslo Sinfonietta og p. 50 Kahrs / Moe 17:00 Verdensteatret HANNAH p. 27 Ultima Children’s Day p. 39 Sentralen/Gymsalen Sentralen/Forstanderskapssalen Oslo Domkor Sentralen Oslo domkirke p. 11 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 17:00 Verdensteatret HANNAH 14:00 Ultima Academy 17:00 Verdensteatret HANNAH p. 11 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 18:30 Synne Skouen Ballerina 19:00 Eliane Radigue OCCAM p. 51 Sentralen/Gymsalen p. 11 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter p. 15 Den Norske Opera & Ballett p. 13 Emanuel Vigelands museum 18:00 Ultima Academy 16:00 Compagnie Furinkaï 18:30 Synne Skouen Ballerina p. 39 Sentralen/Gymsalen 20:00 KORK (Closing concert) 19:30 Synne Skouen Ballerina p. 46 Origami p. 15 Den Norske Opera & Ballett p.62 Sentralen/Marmorsalen p. 15 Den Norske Opera & Ballett 19:00 Becker/Langgård NEW SKIN Christian Frederiks plass 21:00 Death to The Machine monday 11 september p. 41 Black Box teater 17:00 Verdensteatret HANNAH sunday 17 september p. 16 Sentralen 19:00 REOLÔ p. 11 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 16:00 Forecast p. 40 Riksscenen 18:00 Supersilent installation 14:00 Verdensteatret HANNAH p. 29 Ultima Academy p. 11 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter saturday 9 september Sentralen/Gymsalen 19:30 Synne Skouen Ballerina p. 31 Emanuel Vigelands museum 12:00 Ultima Academy p. 15 Den Norske Opera & Ballett 18:00 Supriya Nagarajan 18:30 Synne Skouen Ballerina 19:00 Barrett / Holsen / Radigue p. 15 Den Norske Opera & Ballett p. 18 Det nye Nasjonalmuseet/ p. 52 Lullaby Oslo 2017 Mellomstasjonen p. 30 Sentralen/Marmorsalen 20:00 Yarn/Wire Furuset bibliotek og p. 42 Lamb / Lucier / Vine aktivitetshus 13:00 Koka Nikoladze 20:00 Supersilent installation Jace Clayton p. 31 Emanuel Vigelands museum J. Eastman Memorial Dinner 20:00 Urban Liturgy Kulturkirken Jakob 19:00 Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra p. 19 Youngstorget p. 54 Sentralen An Open Ending Rituals are often defined as actions which have symbolic signifi- cance, and which are repeated in a particular, predictable manner. They can be connected to important transitional moments in people’s lives, or practices linked to social upheavals. After leading Ultima through eight editions, it feels natural to finish with a programme which revolves around precisely such rituals and upheavals.

A while ago, I was asked by the German magazine Neue Zeitschrift für Musik about the thinking behind the Ultima programme. This resulted in ten thoughts, ten ambitions, which in many ways sum up Ultima’s strategy during the years I have been running the festival. A strategy which can be boiled down to one main point: daring to be weak and unsure.

We don’t always know what good music is, at least before we have heard it. A continual discussion about what is artistic quality lies at the core of Ultima Festival’s operations. My work has not been first and foremost about acting as a tastemaker, but about searching for necessary projects where something seems to be at stake. The chal- lenge has often been to resist the temptation to conclude.

In an increasingly commercialised environment where truth is fought- over in tabloid headlines, we have tried to provide a space for complexity, ambivalence, imperfection and transience. We have tried to create an open festival which does not put forward solutions, which is not dead certain, but which remains open to alternatives. A festival based around the attitude which Oslo’s musical life is known for: not giving a damn about conventions.

We wanted to present music lovingly, in a direct, pure form. Our objective has been a festival that’s sensitive to its surroundings and which challenges and develops the music in dialogue with the world around it. Collaboration has been the key. The entire field, from the biggest institutions to the tiniest clubs; local, national and interna- tional players; everyone has helped give experimental music more impact. Now, as we currently experience a growing, younger audi- ence, international interest and awards for our work are the results of enormous efforts by Ultima’s members, partners and employees – going right back to the beginning in 1991.

3 The German magazine I mentioned earlier was founded by Robert Schumann in 1834, as a place for discussion of new musical trends and ideas. In the course of a long and fractured story, the project continues to this day, and shows how this music is bound up with history, continually developing.

Ultima Festival is a part of this tradition and has demonstrated its own ability to keep renewing itself. It has been a pleasure to contrib- ute to its progress, and I wish the new leader, all staff, members and partners success in their important work. Thank you. ultima.no Lars Petter Hagen Artistic Director Hear the full spectrum! Check ultima.no for expanded event info, buy ­tickets online, build your own favourites list, and more…

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Jana Winderen Rats – Heiner Goebbels Eislermaterial Secret ­Soundscapes of the City (w �� ) Ensemble Modern Parallel to the world of people is another The art of Heiner Goebbels is not quite opera Munchmuseet i bustling society – a world of rats. Some of Nationaltheatret and not quite theatre, but occupies a unique bevegelse, Bjørvika their communication with each other cannot Time 19:30 position between the two. With a back- Nylandsbrua be registered by human ears, as it is located Ticket 550–100 NOK ground straddling avant garde composition Time 17:00 in an ultrasound frequency range – over and progressive/radical rock in the 1970s, Ticket Free entry 20.000 Hz. Pre talk with Heiner Goebbels Goebbels is now a prolific composer and in Nationaltheatrets A stone’s throw from the white-marbled publikums­foaje at 17:45 stage director of multimedia works that have Opening 6 September Opera house, and based on the hypothesis been performed all over the world. His stag- (stand till 14 October) that rats serenade one another with love Heiner Goebbels ing of Harry Partch’s Delusion of the Fury Eislermaterial (1998) songs, Jana Winderen will record the ultra- With Ensemble Modern and was one of Ultima’s all-time triumphs when it sonic landscape of Bjørvika and slow the actor Josef Bierbichler was performed at Oslo’s Nationaltheater in sound down to human hearing levels. Based 2013. In 2012 the German composer and on her fieldwork and findings, she creates a director received the prestigious international new multichannel composition for Munch­ Ibsen Award. museet on the Move 2017 with spatial audio Now Goebbels returns to Ultima with software by Tony Myatt (University of a concert version of Eislermaterial (1998), Surrey). The new, multi-channel sound piece an enchanting and passionate tribute and will be installed at the mouth of Akerselva, deconstruction of one of his greatest musical where the river meets the sea in this rapidly heroes. Hanns Eisler (1898–1962) was best developing district of Oslo. known for his lifelong association with the dramatist Bertolt Brecht. →

6 In collaboration with Munchmuseet i bevegelse and nyMusikk. 7 Opening concert thursday 7 september

← Heiner Goebbels Eislermaterial Banned by the Nazi party, Eisler relocated Josef Bierbichler — Soloist to the USA in the second world war, before Heiner Goebbels being in turn condemned by the McCarthy — Composer/director investigations in the Cold War and sent Norbert Ommer — Sound director back to East Germany, where he among Jean Kalman other works composed the socialist country’s —Lighting Designer Barbara Weesternach national anthem. —Lighting technician Combining elements of folksong, popu- Felix Dreher —Sound technician lar national music, military marches and Stephan Buchberger haunting atmospheres, Eisler’s music has —Director’s Assistant been important for Heiner Goebbels right from his beginnings as a composer. In A steamy night of Egyptian psychedelia – in a sauna! Ensemble Modern: Dietmar Wiesner Eislermaterial he uses the entire breadth of — Flute, alto flute, piccolo Eisler’s oeuvre – a staged concert featuring Antje Thierbach Dwarfs of East Agouza — Oboe some of Eisler’s most famous songs which Roland Diry Goebbels edited and arranged for perfor- Formed by three experimental musicians in —Clarinets Matthias Stich mance by Ensemble Modern (who premiered SALT/Árdna (sauna) Cairo in 2012, Dwarfs of East Agouza build — Bass clarinet, tenor the work in 1998) and juxtaposed with origi- Time 22:00 a repetitive and hypnotic music by disci- saxophone nal Eisler audio files in a collage. In this Ticket 100 NOK plined improvising over exotic percussion Johannes Schwarz — Bassoon concert version of Eislermaterial, its bitter- loops. Their long form jams hover some- Valentín Garvie sweet melodies are performed by the work’s NB: Ticket holders for both where between krautrock, post-rock and 70s — Trumpet Death to the Machine (8 Sava Stoianov original vocalist, the actor Josef Bierbichler, September) AND Supersilent electric Afro-beat. Alan Bishop is a former — Trumpet, flugelhorn, whose voice is unmistakably unaffected and (9 September) get Free entry member of the cult US avant rock group Sun Wagner tuba to Dwarfs of East Agouza Uwe Dierksen simultaneously touching. City Girls and more recently founded the — Trumpet, euphonium, Maurice Louca Sublime Frequencies label. Canadian Sam helicon — Keyboards and electronics Shalabi’s Middle Eastern-influenced group Rainer Römer Sam Shalabi — Drum kit — Electric ­guitar/synth Shalabi Effect has released several albums Hermann Kretzschmar Alan Bishop on the Alien8 label. Egyptian Maurice Louca — Piano, harmonium — Guitar, sax, vocals Ueli Wiget has worked for many years in the Cairo — Piano, sampler musical underground. Together they are revi- Freya Ritts-Kirby This opening night after- — Violin party takes place at SALT, a talizing the sound of North African music. Megumi Kasakawa nomadic art project currently — Viola situated on Oslo’s shoreline. Michael M. Kasper SALT’s spectacular wooden — Cello constructions cover a total Joachim Tinnefeld of 5000 m2, and include the — Double bass/electric bass Árdna sauna. (NB: The sauna venue will be warm, but not super-hot. Light clothing recommended!)

In collaboration with Nationaltheatret. Commission from Musica Viva, Munich. Co-production between Musica Viva/Bayerischer Rundfunk, Hebbel-Theater Berlin and Dresdner Zentrum für 8 zeitgenössische Musik. Supported by Deutsche Bank Stiftung. 9 friday 8 september friday 8 september Eliane Radigue Virtuoso Listening Screening of Anaïs Prosaïc’s documentary Sentralen/ about the life and music of Eliane Radigue. Vinterhagen The French composer, born in 1932, has Time 13:00 emerged from the 1960s school of musique (65 min) concrete and electroacoustic music to Ticket Free entry create her own monumental, meditative and epic synthesizer compositions that Ultima Academy is a series engage with enormous questions of life, of workshops, talks, lectures and panel discussions and is death and existence, mediated through her free and open to anyone strong Buddhist faith. interested in knowing more about the ideas that under- Since 2001 she has stopped using elec- Adventures in Space and Time lie the general festival tronics and has composed exclusively for programme acoustic instruments, and this intimate por- Verdensteatret HANNAH (w �� ) trait film also includes contributions from musicians who have become regular play- For the world-renowned Norwegian perfor- ers of her recent compositions, including Henie Onstad mance group Verdensteatret, the present is Charles Curtis, AGF, Kaffe Matthews, Kunstsenter a memory in motion. Each of their powerful, Rhodri Davies, Kasper Toeplitz and more. Premiere: immersive and unforgettable multimedia 8 September theatre works explores transitional states Time 17:00 and journeys through challenging physical Ticket 300/200 NOK and emotional terrain. Verdensteatret are currently working on Performances from 8 – 17 a new production that will premiere as a live September (except 11 September) performance at Oslo’s Henie Onstad Art Centre. In this brand new work, Verdens­ With: teatret will explore ideas about geological Asle Nilsen Piotr Pajchel time and attention fatigue. As they put it: Eirik Arthur Blekesaune ‘There has never been so much past as there Torgrim Torve Niklas Adam is right now.’ Janne Kruse In November 2016, the Verdensteatret Ali Djabbary collective went on a research trip to the Martin Taxt Elisabeth Carmen Gmeiner Mekong Delta in Vietnam, a location they HC Gilje first visited ten years ago. Their research, in a place they were already familiar with, Thanks to: Espen Sommer Eide was particularly focused on the nature Sofia Jernberg of repetition, and they began questioning Magnie Finnsdatter Nilsen whether repetition is even possible. →

Ultima Academy is supported by Norwegian 10 Society of Composers. 11 friday 8 september friday 8 september

← Verdensteatret HANNAH In their new piece, Verdensteatret will create a series of elaborate audio-visual composi- tions – generated via an electronic feedback system – designed to absorb the audience into the performance space. Inspired by the immense span and slow unfolding of geo- logical time, the material acts as a kind of sedimentation process, drawing attention to slow changes and the way physical objects can affect their surroundings over extremely long time-spans. As well as being an incredible experi- ence, new Verdensteatret production is always considered an important event in the Éliane Radigue OCCAM arts calendar. At Ultima 2014 they premiered the acclaimed Broen over Gjørme (Bridge OCCAM RIVER Over Mud), about which Klassekampen’s critic wrote: ‘The group transforms its stage… Éliane Radigue is one of the composers in into a dramatic body, pulsating between its Emanuel Vigelands focus at Ultima 2017. Three concerts plus a visual and audiovisual elements, and all the museum seminar and screening will examine her life fragments that float by have a certain dream- Time 19:00 and music, and reaffirm her status in contem- like expression.’ Ticket 200/100 NOK porary music. At the age of 85, Radigue is one of the OCCAM RIVER will be last surviving generation of French electronic performed Saturday 9 September. musicians whose careers were profoundly influenced by musique concrète pioneers OCCAM XIII such as Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. for bassoon OCCAM XVIII Using an Arp 2500 modular synthesizer, for contrabass-recorder Radigue quicky discovered her own unique OCCAM I for solo harp style in the early 1970s, combining technol- ogy with a strong Buddhist faith. The resulting Rhodri Davies music – works such as Adnos I-III, Trilogie de — Harp la Mort, and l’Île Re-sonante plunged Pia Palme —Contrabass-recorder deeply into long, slowly evolving drone forms Dafne Vincente-Sandoval that probed the mysteries of death and the — Bassoon afterlife, and opened up transcendental and meditative spaces. →

In collaboration with Verdensteatret, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 12 and Black Box teater. Supported by Kulturrådet. 13 friday 8 september friday 8 september

← Éliane Radigue OCCAM / OCCAM RIVER Since 2001 she has focused more on acous- OCCAM RIVER XIII duo for bassoon and harp tic instruments, often working closely with (WP) specific performers. OCCAM RIVER VI These concerts will display a total of five duo for contrabass-recorder and harp works in her OCCAM series (including one world premiere), composed in the past Rhodri Davies decade for harp, contrabass recorder and — Harp Pia Palme bassoon, solo and in combination. In the —Contrabass-recorder astonishing acoustics of the Emanuel Vige- Dafne Vincente-Sandoval — Bassoon lands museum, with its long reverberation World premiere of Synne Skouen’s new opera time, Radigue’s mystical and deeply resonant work can be heard at its very best. Synne Skouen Ballerina (w �� ) In Ballerina, Norwegian composer Synne Den Norske Opera Skouen conducts us inside the private world & Ballett, Scene 2 of Malin, a teenage girl with autism. There Time 19:30 you will find the deep pond and the big Ticket 395–100 NOK bird, the circus horse, Herr Carl the eucalyp- tus, Uncle Anton the creaky gate, and Mrs Also performed 10, 12, 13, Ludovica the millstone. All of them have 16 and 17 September ‘blue voices’. Pre-concert talk Synne Skouen is one of Norway’s fore- Saturday 2 September most contemporary composers. Her new 15:00–16:00 chamber opera is based on a play of the With Silje Marie Aker same name written by her father, Arne Johnsen, Hege Høisæter, Skouen, in 1976. It has been adapted as an Ketil Hugaas, Dagfinn Andersen, Vigdis Unsgård, opera libretto by Oda Radoor. Amid the dif- Tone Kummervold / Ensemble ficult dramas of a crisis-racked family, which from the Opera orchestra includes her former ballerina mother Edith, Malin’s inner life is expressed via music. Synne Skouen — Music Performed in Norwegian with Norwe- Oda Radoor, based on gian and English subtitles. Arne Skouen’s original play — Libretto Bjarne Sakshaug — Musical rehearsing Hilde Andersen — Director Bård Lie Torgersen — Set and costume designer Ingrid Tønder — Lighting designer Jonas Forsell 14 In collaboration with nyMusikk. — Dramaturg Produced by DNO&B. 15 friday 8 september friday 8 september

He has released two albums and created the soundtrack for films includingOslo, 31 August. This year Torgny is wheeling out his new project – Cut & Run – with a new album, videos and performances. At Ultima Torgny will be accompanied by the legend- ary confrontational artist Willibald Storn, now in his eighties, as well as vocalist Maria Due and others. He will occupy the inter- zone between a deconstructed rock concert, performance art, vocals and dance, with references to consumerism, sexuality, dreams and the future. In an encounter between the Forsvarets Death to The Machine Stabs­musikkorps and guitar innovator Stian Westerhus, Tod den maschinen reflects the Probing the man-machine interface: Norwe- growing struggles between human consciou- Sentralen gian artcore, radical Persian electronics and ness and artificial intelligence. In the age of Time 21:00 amped-up wind bands machine learning, algorithms and behaviour Ticket 350/250 NOK Sacred Horror in Design is a new audio- analysis, the very concept of intelligence is visual project offering a rare glimpse into the becoming less artificial, and circuits are NB: Ticket holders for both underground world of electronic arts in Iran. defining the structures of human individual- Death to the Machine (8 September) AND Supersilent Digital musician Ata Ebtekar aka Sote (who ity. As machines are programmed to learn in (9 September) get Free entry has released music on Warp, Sub Rosa, Opal much the same way as humans are taught, to Dwarfs of East Agouza (7 September) Tapes and Digitalis among others) collabo- we see a new consciousness developing with rates with celebrated audiovisual composer increasing rapidity. This piece will express Sote with Tarik Barri, Tarik Barri (Monolake, Thom Yorke, Nicolas the conflict of automation versus human will, Behrouz Pashaei & Arash Bolouri – Jaar) and performers Arash Bolouri (santoor) and merges ceremonial wind bands and Sacred Horror In Design and Behrouz Pashaei (setar) on a project innovative music making in a high-volume, Time 21:00 merging electronics with traditional acoustic high-energy 45 minute performance. The Location Marmorsalen instruments for a ‘Persian techno apoca- performance of Tod den machinen at Ultima Torgny with lypse’: a magical, textural multi-timbral is a premiere in collaboration with the South Willibald Storn (WP) environment. Netherlands Philharmonic. Time 22:00 Location Gymsalen Former hardcore vocalist Torgny Amdam has marked himself out as a solo Stian Westerhus + artist with an electronic, rhythmic and vocal Forsvarets Stabsmusikkorps based music which hurtles from aggression Tod den maschinen (WP) Time 23:00 to beauty and melody. → Location Marmorsalen

16 17 saturday 9 september saturday 9 september Letters Sent from Heaven Ultima Academy Seminar In accompaniment to the event (page 23), Det nye Oslo Kunstforening will present a unique Nasjonalmuseet, exhibition, displaying the photographs of Mellomstasjonen, Fujiko Nakaya’s father, Ukichiro Nakaya. Vestbanen Letters Sent from Heaven is an exhibi- Time 12:00–15:30 tion of experimental Japanese physicist Ticket Free entry Ukichiro Nakaya’s photographs of snow crystals and electrostatic discharges. This is The seminar will be held in the first time Ukichiro Nakaya’s (1900–1962) Experience Youngstorget transform into giant percussion instrument English work is presented in Europe in connection The seminar is made in with the fog sculptures by his daughter. This Koka Nikoladze Urban Liturgy (w �� ) collaboration with the is also the first time Ukichiro Nakaya’s work Biodynamic Society, Norway is presented in Norway. Koka Nikoladze returns to Ultima with an As part of this, a seminar will be held at Youngstorget interactive installation and performance Mellomstasjonen as part of Ultima Academy. Time 13:00 and inspired by religious rituals. The Oslo Invited speakers are artist and critic Kenjiro 20:00 based Georgian composer/sound artist Okazaki, climate historians Peder Anker and Ticket Free entry has invented his own set of beliefs, customs Sverker Sörlin, curator and artistic director of and traditions and will invite members Oslo Kunstforening Marianne Hultman and of the public to join him in worshipping in agriculturist and director of the Biodynamic an unfamiliar religious system. Society in Oslo, Dag Blakkisrud. Nikoladze will install a series of auto- mated musical sources built by himself, including self-strumming string instruments, self-hitting drums, computerised voices read- ing Google Translate passages from the internet, and more, in a public space, ampli- fied by hidden speakers.

1818 Ultima Academy is supported by Norwegian Society of Composers. Supported by Kulturrådet. 19 saturday 9 september saturday 9 september

The familiar made strange Christian Blom Sing Cikada Sing, by Oslo based sound sculptor Christian The familiar made strange in Cikada’s Sentralen/Hvelvet Blom, is a set of mechanical instruments that Sentralen/ intriguing modern chamber programme Time 14:00, 14:30, are activated in response to the human voice. Forstanderskapssalen Francesco Filidei’s Cuorde Vuote (Open 16:00, 16:30 Blom’s beautiful, intricate and precarious Time 15:00 Strings, 2010), is mostly played, as the title Ticket 100 NOK constructions have previously been presented Ticket 250/150 NOK implies, on strings that are not held down on to Ultima’s audience, and this year he has the neck of the instruments. This places more NB: Tickets for the Cikada built a set of instruments that react and are NB: Tickets for the Cikada listening focus on the rich and subtle range concert in the Forstander- concert include Free entry to skapssalen in Sentralen animated by being sung to. The music of Christian Blom’s installation of tones and textures that emanate from a (15:00) include Free entry to Sing is a combination of the organic voice Sing in Hvelvet single string. Two Songs Without was written Christian Blom’s installation and the mechanical movement it triggers. specially for Norway’s premier contempo- Francesco Filidei Thus, there is no fixed audience for this work Cuorde Vuote rary chamber ensemble Cikada. Inspired by – only participants. Francesco Filidei Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words, these Two Songs Without ‘The word persona comes from Latin, Gérard Pesson have a freshness and simplicity that recalls and means mask,’ says Blom. ‘It is specu- Nebenstück the most memorable pop music, while also lated that it could be related to per sonare, Klaus Lang using the empty-string technique. Schumanns geister which means something like sounding The programme also includes two works through. As if we are persons through the that transform well known classical piano sound of our voice. We are also continuously pieces. Klaus Lang’s schumanns geister coming into being through our relation with (2014) is based on Robert Schumann’s Ghost the world, and hearing is a very important Variations, his final piano work.Nebenstück part of this. In Sing I try to couple these ideas: (1998), by Gérard Pesson, takes Johannes being a person through the sound of your Brahms’s Ballade op. 10 no. 4 and ‘filters’ it voice, and being created through hearing. via clarinet and string quartet.

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Fog sculptures, a Japanese synth pioneer, avant garde dance, and Startling Revelations the view from the roof of Oslo’s new National Museum Maja S. K. Ratkje / Aasne Linnestå Ryuichi Sakamoto + Fujiko Nakaya + Revelations (This Early Song) (w �� ) Min Tanaka + Shiro Takatani a•form In difficult times, as mankind struggles with a Fujiko Nakaya (born 1933) created her first Kulturkirken Jakob failing nature and with political unrest on the Det nye Nasjonal­ public fog sculpture at the World Fair Expo Time 19:00 rise, we naturally look for signs of hope. museet (Vestbanen) ’70 in Osaka. Since then Nakaya has exhib- Ticket 250/150 NOK Maja S. K. Ratkje’s new concert performance Time 20:00 ited her fog- and cloud sculptures at major aims to offer just that. Ticket 500/400 NOK art venues all over the world, including the Marianne Beate Kielland In Revelations (This Early Song), Ratkje Guggenheim in Bilbao, San Francisco Explor- — Soloist with author Aasne Linnestå search for the Debut live union of world atorium and Tate Modern in London. At Engegårdkvartetten: famous Japanese artists in Arvid Engegård essence of existence and for the beauty in an exclusive first taste of a Ultima she will install a fog sculpture on the — Violin major new Oslo landmark Alex Robson the here and now. They also investigate the roof terrace on the construction site of the — Violin way language shapes who we are. new National Museum building in front of Juliet Jopling — Viola Principal soloist is mezzosoprano the City Hall, the harbour and the fjord, Jan Clemens Carlsen Marianne Beate Kielland, who will be marking the first occasion for the public to — Cello accompanied by four-musician ensemble get access to this spectacular site. Ingrid Skanke Høsøien — Lighting design Engeg­årdkvartetten. She will sing a text that Responding to the sculpture will be two is based on some of the oldest and most legends of Japanese contemporary music Maja S. K. Ratkje enduring words in all of the world’s lan- and dance. Ryuichi Sakamoto will play an — Music Aasne Linnestå guages – those words that express the most exclusive keyboard recital as an atmos- — Libretto fundamental and important elements of what pheric sonic accompaniment to Nakaya’s it is to be human. As Aasne Linnestå puts it: fog, while choreographer­ and dancer Min ‘Find, connect, bind together. And then put Tanaka will perform his Body Weather it out there, in the work.’ movements with Nakaya’s fog piece. →

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← a•form Sakamoto achieved fame in the late 70s in In accompaniment, Oslo Yellow Magic Orchestra, Japan’s first synth Kunstforening will present an exhibition, displaying the pop band, and went on to a huge interna- photographs of Fujiko tional solo career as a pop artist, composer Nakaya’s father, Ukichiro Nakaya. Letters Sent from and multimedia entrepreneur. His electro Heaven (25.08-24.09), is a and techno music has been hugely influen- unique exhibition of experi- mental Japanese physicist tial, and his collaborators over the years have Ukichiro Nakaya's photo- included David Sylvian, Carsten Nicolai, graphs of snow crystals and Youssou N’Dour and Fennesz. His Oscar and electrostatic discharges. This is the first time Ukichiro Grammy Award winning soundtracks include Nakaya's (1900-1962) work Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), is presented in Europe in connection with the fog The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky Supersilent 20 years anniversary concert at Ultima sculptures by his daughter, (1990) and The Revenant (2015); and he Fujiko Nakaya. They were first shown at the Sapporo created music for the opening ceremony of Supersilent anniversary concert International Art Festival in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Earlier this Japan curated by Ryuichi spring, Sakamoto released his 20th solo For the past 20 years, Arve Henriksen (trum- Sakamoto in 2014 album, async, where one of the tracks is a Sentralen/ pet/vocals), Ståle Storløkken (composer/ tribute to Fujiko Nakaya. Marmorsalen keyboards) and Helge ‘Deathprod’ Sten Min Tanaka (born 1945) is an experi- Time 22:00 (electronics) have improvised a music that mental dancer, performance artist and film Ticket 300/200 NOK exists at the meeting point of avant garde, actor. His unique ‘hyper-dance’ involves a noise and jazz. At Ultima, the trio – who complete unity of mind and body, and he NB: Ticket holders for both never discuss what they are about to play Supersilent (9 September) often dances in an improvised response to a AND Death to the Machine on stage or record – mark their 20 year place or music. He has collaborated with (8 September) get Free entry anniversary with a concert at Sentralen’s to Dwarfs of East Agouza composers such as Luciano Berio, Hans (7 September) Marmor­salen, and an installation at the Werner Henze, Toshi Ichiyanagi, improvisers Emanuel Vigelands museum. such as Cecil Taylor, Milford Graves, Derek Supersilent has its roots in Norway’s Bailey, John Cale, Aki Takahashi, visual late 90s jazz scene, growing out of the trio artists Karel Appel, and Richard Serra, and Veslefrekk, while Helge Sten had been a the writer Susan Sontag. Since 2004, he has member of rock group Motorpsycho. The performed a series Locus Focus in numerous explosion of energy released when free places including Indonesian islands, in favor music collided with digital processing has of the outdoor space. made Supersilent one of the most revered Shiro Takatani has created the lighting Norwegian acts on the international stage. design for the event. They played a packed-out theatre at the Big Ears festival in Knoxville, Tennessee this spring. →

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← Supersilent anniversary concert A typical Supersilent session will move from meditative and mysterious ambience to vio- lent, angry soundclashes between the three members. At Ultima this year you’ll be able to witness a classic Supersilent live set in the stunning surroundings of the Marmorsalen. Plus, along with artist Pekka Stokke the group will be invading the Emanuel Vigelands museum to create an unforgettable installation (page 31) – secret as a deadly weapon – designed to take full advantage of the unique building’s dark, heavy atmos- phere and murals depicting the cycle of birth and death. Barnas Ultima-dag (BUD) Ultima’s very own children’s contemporary Sentralen music fest is taking place for the fourth year Time 12:00–16:00 in a row. Once again it’s a packed day of Ticket 100 NOK musical activities, making stuff, listening to crazy sounds and experiencing new worlds. Six guides, from eight to twelve year old, lead the way through a day of adventur- ous sound and music and fun activities.

Featured in this year’s BUD: Guitarist and musician Bare Egil (Bare Egil Band, Hurra Torpedo, etc) & Aslag with their ‘super-popular kids’ show’, featuring quirky songs and anarchic humour.

Puppet character Zook from the popular Norwegian sci-fi series Kometkameratene, teams up with Maren Elle and some of her colleagues from the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and their own brand of illogical humour, slapstick comedy and infectiously cool songs. →

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←Barnas Ultima-dag (BUD) Forecast – Presentation at Ultima A special installation created for BUD by the improvising quartet SPUNK (Maja S. K. Concert with Stefan Maier and Ratkje, Lene Grenager, Hild Sofie Tafjord and Kristin Andersen). Jennifer Walshe Sing, by Oslo based sound sculptor Christian We are delighted to include a presentation of Blom, is a set of mechanical instruments that Sentralen/Gymsalen the Forecast platform – based on the idea of are activated in response to the human voice, Time 16:00 –18:00 mentorship in creative areas – as part of this and react and are animated by being sung to. Ticket Free entry year’s Ultima Academy. At this presentation you can meet the programme’s artistic direc- Infinite Chaos Stop Motion by Next Life In collaboration with tor Freo Majer, as well as Irish composer and The Forecast Platform with Hai Nguyen Dinh (guitar) is a dynamic vocal improvisor Jennifer Walshe, who has audio visual concert/performance based on Ultima Academy is a series been acting as one of this year’s mentors. digital imagery, lights and choreography. of workshops,' talks, lectures Her mentoree, Stefan Maier, will encounter and panel discussions and is free and open to anyone her in an improvised concert and afterwards A series of exciting hands-on sound sculp- interested in knowing more the two will discuss their collaboration. about the ideas that underlie ture workshops set up by innovative Oslo this year's festival collective Drivhuset. Activities include programme making four-storey high long-string instru- ments; a wall-hanging percussion monkey; a musical ski lift; an interactive theremin- woman; and the ever popular sonic crafting table full of mechanical and electronic gizmos to build.

Supported by Sparebankstiftelsen and the Ulysses Network and the Creative Europe programme of the Ultima Academy is supported by Norwegian Society of 28 European Union. Composers. 29 monday 11 september monday 11 september

Electronic music for 24 ‘loudspeakers’ Supersilent mark their 20 year anniversary at Ultima (part two) Barrett / Holsen / Radigue Supersilent installation Natasha Barrett’s new acousmatic electro­ In addition to the concert (page 25) in the Sentralen/ acoustic composition explores the idea of Emanuel Vigelands stunning surroundings of the Marmorsalen Marmor­salen music emerging from the microscopic move- museum 9 September, Supersilent will be invading Time 19:00 ments of hundreds of people, including Time 20:00–22:00 the mausoleum at the Emanuel Vigelands Ticket 250/150 NOK performing musicians and crowds attempting Ticket Free entry museum to create an unforgettable to stand still. The body’s tiniest movements are installation – secret as a deadly weapon – Natasha Barrett recorded using a high-speed, high-res 3D The installation will be open designed to take full advantage of the unique Involuntary Expression (WP) from 19:00–22:00 Monday Hilde Marie Holsen tracking system; they are then blown up and – Saturday during Ultima building’s dark, heavy atmosphere, extreme Prikle (WP) converted into audible spatial sound structures. reverberation and murals depicting the cycle Eliane Radigue Arthesis Hilde Marie Holsen combines trumpet of birth and death. and electronics, usually in an improvised setting. Prikle is a new piece for trumpet, live electronics and 3D surround sound. "Prikle" is the Norwegian term for transplanting seed- lings from the nursery to their permanent place of growth. In this piece, the various trumpet sounds act as sonic seedlings whose conditions for growth are enhanced by elec- tronic processing. French veteran Eliane Radigue’s music is featured several times at this year’s Ultima, and here the 1973 ARP synthesizer piece Arthesis is performed by François J. Bonnet, aka electronic musician Kassel Jaeger.

30 In collaboration with Notam. Supported by Kulturrådet. 31 monday 11 september tuesday 12 september Ultima Remake This year’s Ultima Remake is a collaboration Fyrstikkalleen with Fyrstikkalleen Videregående skole in videregående skole Oslo. Over four workshops, second year Time 11:30–15:00 students from media and communication Ticket Free entry will develop an audio-visual installation based on the theme Ritual, inspired by the Opening 12 September interdisciplinary works of Verdensteatret (stands till 15 September) The project is a collaboration with In collaboration with the composer Magnus Bugge, video artist Ove Ulysses Network and the Alexander Dahl and teacher Richard Creative Europe programme A pair of works that are best experienced lying down of the European Union Grimnes Nygård, Trine Dahl and Jon Tolo Hausberg from Fyrstikkalleen vgs. Project asamisimasa Coordinator is Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad. Remake is a part of the international asamisimasa present a pair of works that are Ulysses Network, promoting contemporary Kulturkirken Jakob best experienced lying down. music in Europe. Time 21:00 Austrian composer Klaus Lang aims to Ticket 250/150 NOK ask how time changes the perception of sound, and vice versa, with a soundworld Michael Pisaro that resembles the sensation of form and Asleep street pipes tones Klaus Lang colour that occur when you close your eyes. Bright darkness.(morning) American composer Michael Pisaro (WP) places an exceptional focus on timbre, dura- tion and the quality of microscopic sound. Asleep, Street, Pipes, Tones is part of a series that deliberately attempts to replicate the feel of a dream state. Imagining what it would be like to experience the world only through the ears, this piece challenges the listener to tune into to its slow accumulation of detail and become increasingly aware, just as your eyes gradually get used to the dark.

Lie back and enjoy it!

Ultima Academy is supported by Norwegian Society 32 Supported by Kulturrådet. of Composers. 33 tuesday 12 september tuesday 12 september Lullaby Oslo 2017 (installation) Robotic Revolution Supriya Nagarajan has been travelling with We are constantly told that robots are our Furuset bibliotek og her «Lullaby Booth» recording lullabies from Sentralen / Gymsalen future, and some of the biggest philosophical aktivitetshus different cultures in the district of Alna in Time 13:00–14:00 discussions are currently around the ethics of Time 12:00–18:00 Oslo. At Ultima the result of the collected Ticket Free entry artificial intelligence. It’s only natural that AI Ticket Free entry lullabies is presented in a sound installation is playing a bigger role in the art world too. at Furuset bibliotek og aktivitetshus. The Panel In this panel, three composers and artists will Christian Blom, Opening 12 September audience can listen to soundscapes of voices discuss the role of robotics, automation and (stands till 15 September) Koka Nikoladze, and sounds that is inspired by the partici- Eirik Blekesaune (sound mechanics in their own practice and debate designer, Verdensteatret) In collaboration with pants’ childhood memories. Nagarajan and the ideological borderlines between human Notam and Furuset bibliotek her assistant Erlend Bilsbak collected the consciousness and machine intelligence in og aktivitetshus Moderator sound material in May 2017. Nagarajan will Nathaniel Budzinski the coming technological era. produce the installation in collaboration with Nathaniel Budzinski has written for Cato Langnes from Notam. magazines including The Wire, Frieze, and During the festival Nagarajan and others. His last film, 9Futures , premiered at Duncan Chapman will perform several con- CPH:DOX in 2015. He has recently relocated certs for invited kindergardens and a concert to Oslo after several years in Copenhagen. open to the public in collaboration with Before that he studied fine art in London, and Haugerud Strykeorkester and Mari Ystanes worked as online editor at The Wire maga- Fjeldstad as a part of Oslo Cultural Night at zine. He is currently working on a new film Furuset bibliotek og aktivitetshus. satirising the contemporary art world. Sverm-Resonans Compostion Seminar Stand still. Wait for the sound. Stretch out with Michael Pisaro Sentralen / Vanessa your arm. Don’t move. Hear the tension. Feel Baird­rommet the muscle movements. Relax. Turn around. Where is the composition? A discussion of (fourth floor) Stand still. Listen to the silence. Feel the line Norges musikkhøg- the origin and location of compositional Time 12:30–15:30 between the known and unknown, controlla- skole / room 139 decisions. Ticket Free entry ble and uncontrollable. Where the body Time 13:00–15:00 The composer Michael Pisaro was born meets the mind. Where the mind meets the Ticket Free entry in Buffalo in 1961. He is a composer and The installation is the result body. What can you hear? guitarist, a member of the Wandelweiser of the art/science research projects Sverm and MICRO, Sverm-Resonans is a new sound installa- Composers Ensemble and founder and direc- supported by University of tion by Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Kari tor of the Experimental Music Workshop, Oslo, Norges forskningsråd and Kulturrådet Anne Vadstensvik Bjerkestrand, Victoria Calarts. His work is frequently performed in Johnson, Victor Gonzalez Sanchez, Agata the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and Opening 12 September Zelechowska, Anna Linh Berg. in many smaller venues. (stand till 14 September)

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Four Scenes and a Funeral Thora Dolven Balke Francesco Filidei Opera (forse) All That Respires, Conspires Italian composer and organist Francesco Kulturkirken Jakob Filidei (born 1973) has gained a reputation All that respires, conspires reflects on the act Time 21:00 for questioning the fundamental values of Sentralen/Hvelvet of ‘conspiring’—the act of breathing together. Ticket 250/150 NOK music itself. Is there music in a singer’s draw- Time 19:00 The radio series explores sound’s relationship ing of breath, or the accidental movements Ticket Free entry to circulation and movement, following sonic Works by Francesco Filidei of a finger on a violin string? Where does I Funerali dell’Anarchico movement through physical spaces, social Serantini music begin, and can it ever end? These are NB: UKS will present an spaces, interdisciplinary spaces, and political Esercizio di Pazzia I the starting points for his large body of work extended version of the I hate mirrors (WP) radio series through an spaces. Compiled and edited by Thora Esercizio di Pazzia II that includes Opera (forse) (2009), scored exhibition - displaying Dolven Balke, the work combines interviews, Opera (forse) for an ensemble of six. installations of archive Piano Intermezzi by material, works and objects field recordings, archival footage and com- Alfredo Catalani Filidei studied in Florence under from the contributors from 7 missioned compositions from Brazil, Ruggero Leoncavallo Salvatore Sciarrino and the organist Jean September – 8 October Norway, Germany, the UK and US. Contrib- Giacomo Puccini Guillou, but his own compositions are utors from the varying disciplines of natural rougher around the edges than his men- A radio series and exhibition ensemble ascolta by Thora Dolven Balke in science, social activism, justice, performance, Rob Young tors. Opera (forse), which translates as The collaboration with Erik Balke, medical research, and music share their — Speaker for Opera (forse) Work (Maybe), requires two tables with Dominic Barter, Camilla Matthias Rebstock Rocha Campos, Trine Falch, insights, research and work on what it is to — Staging birds, pots and various other objects, and Dr. Karl-Heinz Frommolt, transmit meaning, what is necessary to allow Florian Hoelscher instrumental and percussive passages are Milford Graves, Gaby Hartel, — Piano, conductor Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi and action and exchange to take place. Episodes Julian Belli broken up with announcements from Amilcar Packer will be streamed online, as well as played Erik Borgir the musicians. live during this listening session event. Andrew Digby ensemble ascolta are a new music Boris Müller João Carlos Pacheco ensemble based in Stuttgart, established Markus Schwind in 2003.

I hate mirrors is commissioned by the Ernst von 36 Siemens Foundation. 37 wednesday 13 september wednesday 13 september Improvisation: Chaos or Control? The dialogue between different types of Sentralen/Gymsalen music is becoming increasingly frenetic, Time 13:00–14:00 and boundaries between practices and Ticket Free entry approaches more and more fluid. Improvisa- tion is often an integral part of composed Panel work, while jazz and free music often involve Ivar Grydeland Maja S. K. Ratkje partly composed strategies. What can each learn about the other? Three musicians with a Moderator foot in each approach come together to dis- Rob Young cuss the freedoms and limitations. Norwegian Lunchtime concert guitarist Ivar Grydeland has recently researched hidden structures within recorded Alpaca Ensemble improvisations with the aid of digital analysis. Maja S. K. Ratkje has worked with both freely In 2016 Alpaca Ensemble celebrated their improvised techniques in her solo work and in Sentralen/ 20th anniversary by commissioning a new SPUNK, as well as more formal compositions Forstanderskapssalen work from composer Karin Rehnqvist. In such as choral and operatic pieces. Time 12:00 Orbit, for piano, violin, cello and clarinet, Ticket 100 NOK was premiered at last year’s Stangvik Festi- val. It was developed via collaboration and Karin Rehnqvist improvisation with the musicians, and Långt borta och nära (solo clarinet version) involves different positions and movements Balanseprat #6 The Beginning around a space which leads to the feeling In Orbit that the music is ‘in orbit’. Balansekunst is dedicated to examining and Else Bø As well as this new quartet work, the Sentralen/Gymsalen boosting the role of women in contemporary — Piano concert will also include one of her earlier Time 18:00 –19:00 culture. In this panel discussion, composers Sigrid Elisabeth Stang — Violin works for piano trio, The Beginning, and Ticket Free entry Natasha Barrett, Rune Rebne and Karin Marianne Baudouin a solo instrumental arrangement of her Rehnqvist will discuss how the role of the — Cello clarinet concerto. Panel­ composer has developed, and how this role Rolf Borch Natasha Barrett — Clarinet Alpaca Ensemble is a musical coopera- Rune Rebne has been specifically influenced by women tive based in Trondheim, led by Else Bø. Karin Rehnqvist working in the field. The moderator is Peter Meanwell, Artistic Director of the Borealis Moderator Peter Meanwell Festival in Bergen. Introduction by Guro Kleveland from Balansekunst.

Supported by Norsk Kulturfond and Fond for In collaboration with Balansekunst and The Norwegian 38 Utøvende Kunstnere. Academy of Music. 39 wednesday 13 september wednesday 13 september

REOLÔ Signe Becker / Ingvild Langgård Inspired by the supposedly strange character- NEW SKIN (w �� ) Riksscenen istics of folk fiddlers – who seemingly have a Time 19:00 close relationship with both nature and the A requiem for the future. A ceremonial pres- Ticket 220/175 NOK subterranean – two duos, brothers Hans and Black Box teater entation of a disembodied history. Skeletons, Rasmus Kjorstad and Anders Roine/Hans Time 19:00 limbs, paintings, sounds and melodies Anders Erik Røine Hulbækmo, have created Reolô. Traditional Ticket 250/100 NOK emerge from the dark and form new constel- — Guitar/mouth harp/ langeleik melodies in new garb, newly composed lations. NEW SKIN is a concert/installation Hans Hulbækmo tunes, collisions and conversations in fresh Runs on the 13 and performance by composer/musician/artist — Percussion/mouth harp 14 September Hans Kjorstad new shapes are the starting point for this Ingvild Langgård and scenographer/artist — Fiddle new piece, originally commissioned by Signe Becker Signe Becker. Rasmus Kjorstad Hilmestemnet. — Space Two living bodies and a dozen corpses — Fiddle Ingvild Langgård Folk music has often gone wandering —Sound will lead the audience back to the future, across wide open spaces before, and Reolô while symbols familiar from pop culture, rolls across West Africa and India on its Created in collaboration with mythology, metal, and chakra healing will Tilo Hahn journey through the valleys of the homeland. — Lighting designer be channelled out of the darkness and into This well known quartet come at the music Kjersti Alm Eriksen the spotlights. from a wide variety of musical directions in — Scenography assistant There’s something rotten in the state of Pernille Mogensen folk, jazz and contemporary music. — Producer Man. We have stared so long at screens. We have gaped in dread at the news. We have smelled the stink of apathy. Let’s take a step back, recollect our mojo, and propose a new path into the future.

In collaboration with Black Box teater. Produced by Becker/ Langgård. Co-producers: Black Box Theatre and BIT-teater­ 40 Produced by Riksscenen. garasjen. Supported by Kulturrådet and Fond for Lyd og Bilde. 41 wednesday 13 september wednesday 13 september

played in real time by two pianists. Behind Yarn/Wire the project is DJ, electronic musician and Laura Barger Russell H. Greenberg author Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, Ning Yu whose book Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Ian M. Antonio Music and Digital Culture explores the Jace Clayton sweeping changes digital music is undergo- — Concept, arrangement, ing in remote corners of the planet. electronics Arooj Aftab This concert also includes a rare appear- — Vocals (via Skype) ance in Norway by the New York based David Friend percussion and piano based quartet Yarn/ — Piano Emily Manzo Wire. They will play three recent works of US — Piano minimalism: Catherin Lamb’s Curvo Totali- Julius Eastman: The Minimalist that Time Forgot tas, Anthony Vine’s distance/absence and Yarn/Wire / Jace Clayton Alvin Lucier’s Oases, all from 2016. This year, Ultima festival investigates the Kulturkirken Jakob enigmatic figure of American minimalism, Time 20:00 Julius Eastman. Ticket 300/200 NOK The reputation of American composer/ singer Julius Eastman (1940–90) is undergo- Yarn/Wire ing a rapid rediscovery. Eastman’s outsider Catherine Lamb Curvo Totalitas (2016) status (as a black, gay, uncompromising Anthony Vine avant gardist) was cemented by titles such distance/absence (2016) Alvin Lucier as Gay Guerrilla and Evil Nigger, but his Oases (2016) style of repetitive minimalism is being newly

— appreciated by fans of Steve Reich and Jace Clayton Charlemagne Palestine, and his achieve- Julius Eastman ments as a vocalist included recording Memorial Dinner Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad There’s a second chance to King. hear Julius Eastman’s music In The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner, on the following night, when one of the great enigmatic Eastman’s work is presented in a semi- works of 20th century music lecture context. will be reconstructed by the British group Apartment Playing with the notion of Eastman as a House (p.47) postmodern trickster, Julius Eastman Memo- rial Dinner is framed as a job application for the role of the composer in a celebration of his life, with spoken interludes and elec- tronic treatments of the compositions →

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ultima.no Hear the full spectrum! Lunchtime concert Check ultima.no Tøyen Fil og Klafferi Four premieres of new Nordic music. for expanded event info, Sentralen/ Introspective and meditative sounds, Forstanderskapssalen field recordings from Icelandic summer land- buy ­tickets online, Time 12:00 scapes, childhood memories of listening Ticket 100 NOK to shortwave radio, a scratching DJ dog, build your own favourites list, the political rage of Pussy Riot, and links Hafdís Bjarnadóttir between visual art and music: all of this and Sumar / Summer (WP) and more… Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir more will be explored by the Oslo group BAE ( Before Anyone Else Tøyen Fil og Klafferi in this diverse program (WP) Lars Skoglund of Nordic premieres. Radio Days The list of compositions includes three Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson by members of the Icelandic S.L.Á.T.U.R. Leyfðu Barninu (WP) collective, whose practice involves ani- Kristine Tjøgersen mated notation with computer graphics, Gegen die Natur (WP) interactivity, experimental sounds and tun- Tøyen Fil og Klafferi ings and performance art, as well as the Hanne Rekdal development of isolated musical universes. — Flutes, bassoon Kristine Tjøgersen — Clarinets Eira Bjørnstad Foss — Violin Tove Margrethe Erikstad — Cello

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Origami: Woman and Machine in Perfect Harmony Compagnie Furinkaï Origami Apartment House Origami is a striking performance art piece Julius Eastman Femenine Christian Frederiks and sculpture that combines acrobatics with plass (Sjøsiden/ a modified shipping container. A container, The second chance to hear Julius Eastman’s Jernbanetorget) familiar from the global transport industry, OCA music on this year’s Ultima Festival, when Time 16:00, 17:30 is cut into unusual segments and unfolds Time 19:00 one of the great enigmatic works of 20th cen- Ticket Free entry before your eyes into something resembling Ticket 250/150 NOK tury music will be reconstructed by the British a paper origami shape. As if hatched out group Apartment House. Friday 15 September of a gigantic steel egg, from inside emerges Also check out Jace Clayton Femenine (1974) almost did not survive at 16:00 and 17:30 Julius Eastman Memorial Saturday 16 September performance artist Satchie Noro – who Dinner in Kulturkirken Jakob its own creator. Eastman never left a com- at 13:00 proceeds to contort herself into a succession 13 September (page 42) plete performance score (and may not have of poses and shapes as the entire structure even written one down), and the work was Satchie Noro and Silvain Ohl morphs and unfolds. Balancing on tight- only performed a handful of occasions in his — Project, concept ropes, trapezes and specially modified lifetime. Anyone wanting to perform it today Silvain Ohl and Eric Noël — Construction foot-and handholds, and swinging an axe must reconstruct it from the memories and Satchie Noro around her head, Noro’s precarious aerial descriptions, and bring their own inventive- — Dance choreography will leave you holding your ness to the work. Fred Costa with the voice of Maia Barouh breath. British new music ensemble Apartment — Original music House have spent more than 20 years pro- Thierry Arlot — Lighting and stage moting avant garde composition. They have managing previously performed this spellbinding piece Karine De Barbarin — Costumes at the London Festival of Contemporary Music.

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Steve Reich’s more recent Radio Rewrite is Markus Schwind — Trumpet the composer’s tribute to the British rock Bruce Collings group Radiohead, and incorporates some — Trombone Melvyn Poore of the melodies and riffs from the songs — Tuba Everything In Its Right Place and Jigsaw Christopher Brandt — Ebass, eguitat Falling Into Place. Mirjam Schröder — Harp Ulrich Löffler — Piano Benjamin Kobler — Piano Dirk Rothbrust — Percussion Rie Watanabe — Percussion Hannah Weirich Ensemble Musikfabrik — Violin Diamanda Dramm Renowned German Ensemble Musikfabrik — Violin Kulturkirken Jakob present a thoughtfully chosen programme Axel Porath — Viola Time 21:00 representing the quiet passion of contempo- Dirk Wietheger Ticket 250/150 NOK rary music. The music of Rebecca Saunders — Violoncello Florentin Ginot (British, based in Berlin) has been described — Double bass Rebecca Saunders as ‘violent stillness’, and these two works Paul Jeukendrup stirrings still II — Sound direction Rebecca Saunders display her focus on the materiality of Fury sound from acoustic instruments. The title James Tenney Form 4 im memoriam stirrings still is quoted from Samuel Beckett, Morton Feldman whose connections with Morton Feldman Morton Feldman De Kooning were very close. Steve Reich Radio Rewrite Feldman is remembered in James Tenney’s elegiac Form 4, and the Ensemble addition- Ensemble Musikfabrik Helen Bledsoe ally perform two American works which also — Flute take their cue from pre-existing artists and Peter Veale — Oboe artworks. Morton Feldman’s De Kooning was Carl Rosman composed as the soundtrack to a film on the — Clarinet Heidi Mockert abstract expressionist pioneer, and is scored — Bassoon for horn, violin, cello, piano and percussion. Christine Chapman → — Horn

48 49 friday 15 september friday 15 september Fartein Valen Valevåg’s Local Universalist ‘A famous Norwegian composer’, wrote Sentralen/Gymsalen Dagbladet newspaper when a statue of Far- Time 14:00–16:30 tein Valen was vandalised in Sveio in spring Ticket Free entry this year. But who was this artist who, despite his silent character, managed to provoke and This event marks the conclu- disturb so many during his lifetime, both in sion of a research project begun in 2012, funded by Norway and abroad? Norsk Forskningsråd. In Astrid Kvalbein (UiO), Arnulf Mattes Lunchtime concert partnership with UiO (UiB) and Ivar Roger Hansen will discuss Valen in his own time, and the nationalism Kahrs/Moe and modernism that created waves of oppo- sition between Norwegian composers both The trio Pitches in Regalia performs before and after the second world war. Why Sentralen/ Ole-Henrik Moe’s new work. In addition, did David Monrad Johansen lambast Valen, Forstanderskapssalen there will be a new solo cello piece by his friend and mentor, in Oslo’s Theatrekaf- Time 12:00 Sven Lyder Kahrs, performed by Kaja een in 1938, and did he really say that Ticket 100 NOK Aadne on cello. ‘Atonal rhymes with amoral’? We will also see the film that has been Sven Lyder Kahrs used to promote Valen and his violin con- Wie Blüthen sind ja Silberne Wolken (WP) certo internationally, and hear how Britain’s Ole-Henrik Moe Adagio Princess Margaret came to be presented with quasi una coda, quasi una corda (WP) the work’s score at a big concert in London in 1952. Kari Rønnekleiv — Violin Ole-Henrik Moe About the contributors: — Viola Arnulf Mattes and Astrind Kvalbein are both Kaja Aadne connected to the research project Farten — Cello Valen – Atonal Pioneer and Modern Tradi- tionalist, at the University of Oslo (as leader/ researcher and PhD candidate). Ivar Roger Hansen is the author of the biography of David Monrad Johansen, Mot fedrenes fjell. This event marks the conclusion of a research project begun in 2012, funded by Norsk Forskningsråd. In partnership with UiO.

Ultima Academy is supported by Norwegian 50 Supported by Det norske komponistfond. Society of Composers. 51 friday 15 september

Lullaby Oslo 2017 – Concert 100 year jubilee! The British-Indian singer and composer Congratulations to Furuset bibliotek og Supriya Nagarajan has been travelling aktivitetshus around in Oslo with her ‘Lullaby Booth’ the Norwegian Society Time 18:00–20:00 recording lullabies from different cultures. Ticket Free entry |At Ultima the result is presented in a sound of Composers on (Oslo kulturnatt) installation at Furuset bibliotek og aktivitet- shus. At Oslo cultural night you Nagarjan a century of creativity With Supriya Nagarajan, and sound artist Duncan Chapman do a Duncan Chapman and Haugerud Strykeorkester concert with lullabies from around the and nurturing talent! conducted by Mari Ystanes world, mixed with soundscapes of nature Fjeldstad and citylife. Haugerud Strykeorkester will perform a piece specially composed for them by Supriya Nagarajan.

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The evening will also include a screening of Barratt Due Junior Orchestra (Artistic director Soon-Mi The Composer, a film about Arne Nordheim, Chung Barratvt-Due) the towering figure in Norwegian contempo- Henrik Hellstenius rary music after the war. And a ‘Meet the Up and away (WP) Peder Barratt-Due Composer’ session. ¶ A new train of A packed evening that’s the perfect way thought (WP) Nils Henrik Aasheim to soak up the sheer eclecticism and vitality of In Short (WP) several generations of Norwegian modern composition. This concert forms part of the 100 year celebration of the Norsk Komponistforening (Norwegian Society of Celebrating 100 yars of Norwegian Society of Composers Composers) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra In this evening celebrating a century of crea- Sentralen tivity and nurture of talent, Oslo Time 19:00 Philharmonic presents a programme that Ticket Free entry not only spans the NCA’s lifetime but looks (Oslo kulturnatt) to the future. Kicking off with a rousing fanfare by Kl. 19:00 Swedish born Norwegian adoptee Maj Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Christian Eggen Sønstevold (1917–96) in the Marmorsalen, — Conductor the orchestra will perform several jewels from Elise Båtnes — Violin the Norwegian orchestral repertoire, includ- ing the vintage tone poem Lotusland (1922) Maj Sønstevold Fest-ouverture by Arvid Kleven; the violin concerto of one Fartein Valen of its best known composers abroad, Fartein Violin Concerto Valen (1887–1952); and a new piano con- Arvid Kleven Lotusland certo by Jan Erik Mikalsen (born 1979). In addition, the programme includes Kl. 20.30 Barratt Due Junior Orchestra, who will pre- Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Lars Erik ter Jung miere commissioned pieces by Henrik — Conductor Hellstenius, Nils Henrik Asheim and Peder Ellen Ugelvik — Piano Barratt-Due. → Jan Erik Mikalsen Just For You (WP)

In collaboration with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and 54 Norsk Komponistforening 55 friday 15 september saturday 16 september

A night of hypnotic organ trance Charlemagne Palestine Arne Nordheim – Dråpen (The Drop) US experimental musician, performance In the late 90s, when a mountain cavern Kulturkirken Jakob artist and composer Charlemagne Palestine Bekkelaget underneath Ekeberg was designated to be Time 21:00 is a living legend. Active since the heyday Renseanlegg hollowed out to house a sewage purification Ticket 250/150 NOK of the post-war avant garde, he emerged (Purification Plant) plant for eastern Oslo, Arne Nordheim saw it in the artistic milieu of mid-60s New York Time 12:30, 14:30 as an opportunity to create the world’s larg- alongside Tony Conrad, Pandit Pran Nath Ticket 100 NOK est interactive composition. He wanted it to and film maker Kenneth Anger. He has resonate around the sewage pools: 32 loud- spent his life pioneering and developing his Bus from Youngstorget speakers, 2500 metres of cable and 12 sound unique and eccentric long form, mesmeriz- programmes running through 500 million Lars Mørch Finborud (author ing minimalist works for piano, organ, of Ozenfant, Ozenfant and variations would be controlled by signals carillons and his self-built Spectral Contin- curator at Henie Onstad received from the purification systems. So, Kunstsenter) will act as your uum Drone Machine. His appearances can guide, donning his hard hat whether they like it or not, whenever an Oslo be unpredictable, with piles of cuddly toys and outlining Nordheim’s resident takes a shower or flushes the toilet, vision. Process engineer stacked on his pianos, unexpected speech Thomas Aubell (Bekkelaget they are co-composing and shaping the outbursts and ritualistic gestures. Having Vann AS) will explain the sound within the plant. It was especially after played in the Emanuel Vigelands museum technical side morning ablutions and the evening news, a few years ago, he returns to Oslo to fill Nordheim remarked, that the mountain hall Kulturkirken Jakob with his shimmering really began to sing. clouds of multi-timbral sound. Dråpen is a unique work, and one of Oslo’s hidden gems. During Ultima he public will once again have the opportunity to explore this excremental edifice, the only time in the year when the plant is open the the public.

56 57 saturday 16 september saturday 16 september Curtain Call: Lars Petter Hagen & Rob Young in conversation This year, Ultima’s Artistic Director Lars Sentralen/ Petter Hagen is leaving the post after eight Vinterhagen editions. In this relaxed conversation at the Time 16:00 end of his last Ultima Festival, Hagen will Ticket Free entry relive the highs and lows, the goals and achievements, and the behind the scenes drama that goes into producing Northern Lunchtime concert Europe’s biggest contemporary music scapegoat and Améi Quartett gathering. This concert is part of Ulysses, a European SALT programme dedicated to supporting the Time 14:00 work of young performers and composers. Ticket Free entry Joshua Hyde brings his experimental saxophone/percussion duo scapegoat from Scapegoat Paris to present world premieres by ground-­ Pierluigi Billone 2 Alberi (WP) breaking composers Michelle Lou and Michelle Lou Pierluigi Billone, as well as The Threshing Opal (WP) Mauricio Pauly Floor by Mauricio Pauly. The Threshing Floor Composers Mioko Yokoyama, Diego Ramos and Rebecka Ahvenniemi have writ- Améi Quartett Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi ten new works for the up and coming Améi Wuthering modes Quartett, mentored by Maja S. K. Ratkje. (not moods) (WP) Diego Ramos Rodríguez Diferentes figuras de inspiración (WP) Mioko Yokoyama Folklore (WP)

scapegoat Joshua Hyde — Saxophone Noam Bierstone — Percussion The ensemble will have an open general rehearsal at 13:00 September 15 in Hvelvet at Sentralen. Améi Quartett Corinna Canzian, With the support of the Ulysses Network and the Creative Europe Diego Ramos Rodríguez, programme of the European Union. Aglaya González and Esther Saladin Composition commission by scapegoat for Pierluigi Billone and Michelle Lou is funded by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. 59 saturday 16 september saturday 16 september Triologen – Opera Lab II Once again, KHiO and the Norwegian Music KHiO Academy collaborate on a project where Time 17:00–20:00 students and postgraduates join forces in a Ticket Free entry workshop setting, working towards the pro- duction of three short pieces of music theatre. Participants: John Wilhite Singers from the Opera Academy, compos- (double bass), Kristoffer Almås (drums), Finn Lunker ers and trainee musicians from the Music (text), Bernhard Bornstein Academy, and playwrights from the Theatre (composer), Nora Oleanne Sårheim (soprano), Mikkel Academy, have formed three groups in order Fjeld Skorpen (tenor), to develop some musical stagings as part of Andreas N. Angell (accor- dion), Live Berger Brekke Ultima Academy. Celebrating 100 yars of Norwegian Society of Composers (accordion), Tze Yeung Ho In connection with Triologen – Opera (composer), Eilert Egil Taug- Lab II, there will also be a seminar about bøl Hasseldal (baritone), Tina Håkon Berge Tuven (soprano), Linda music theater and opera with composer Rolf Gabrielsen (text), Andjela Wallin, composer Trond Reinholdtsen, opera Brankovic (scenographer), bare en stillhet som kaster meg ut i Emil Havold Næshagen (bass director Susanne Øglænd and the Artistic baritone), Maja Linderoth Direcor of The Norwegian Opera & Ballet ( �) (composer), Marcela Randem universet av ensomhet w � (mezzo-soprano), Aseta Annilese Miskimmon. These four significant Koloeva (harp), Bojana Sovilj players in the field of music theatre and The title of Håkon Berge’s 2006 work trans- (piano), Tale Næss (text), opera will comment and reflect on the state Oslo domkirke lates as just a silence that casts me out into Edo Hayek (horn) of these creative art forms today. Time 18:00 the universe of solitude. Designated as a Directors: Ticket 250/150 NOK Requiem by its creator, the piece is a moving Silje Aker Johnsen (Research paean to the life of 13 years old Palestinian fellow at Operahøgskolen, Oslo Sinfonietta & Ima Darweesh al Hams, who was shot multi- KHiO), Erik Dæhlin (Research Oslo Domkor fellow at NMH), Carle Lange ple times in cold bood by an Israeli army (professor of scenography at KHIO), Henrik Hellstenius Vivianne Sydnes officer in 2004. The controversial damages (professor in composition at — Conductor and libel case went on to be a major sensa- NMH), Kai Johnsen, profes- Isa Katharina Gericke tion in Israel, with the officer eventually sor of stage direction at — Soloist Teaterhøgskolen, KHIO) acquitted of any wrongdoing. Berge’s This concert forms part of the moving piece focuses on the human tragedy Project leaders: 100 year celebration of the at the heart of it all – the unjust and senseless Anna Elisabeth Einarsson Norsk Komponistforening (Opera Academy, KHiO) (Norwegian Society of death of an innocent child unlucky enough to Henrik Hellstenius Composers) be caught in the thick of military action on the Gaza Strip. Using tape recordings of her father’s testimony about his daughter, it is an emotional commemoration of one ordinary life – and the lives around her – transformed by the unending Arab-Israeli­ conflict.

60 A collaboration between KHiO and NMH. In collaboration with Oslo Sinfonietta and Oslo Domkor. 61 saturday 16 september saturday 16 september

Nordheim’s early string quartet (1956) is one of his most impassioned works, and its final movement, ‘Epitaffio’, is arranged here for string orchestra. Jan Martin Smørdal – co-founder of Ensemble neoN – will produce a new instal- ment of his My Favorite Thing trilogy about music that sparks the imagination of a musi- cian for the first time. As well as Please Don’t Hesitate, an expansive, welcoming piece by Therese Birkelund Ulvo inspired by Geir Tveitt, the Celebrating 100 yars of Norwegian Society of Composers evening will be completed by a sparkling 2011 collaboration between composer Rolf KORK (Norwegian Radio Orchestra) Wallin – himself a former trumpeter with Holy Toy – and jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. It’s time to party in celebration of the cente- TV presenter and comedian Hasse Sentralen/ nary of the Norwegian Society of Hope will ensure the whole fiesta goes with Marmorsalen Composers! This lively programme of a swing. Please don’t hesitate! Time 2o:00 orchestral works showcases the eclecticism Ticket 250/150 NOK of Norway’s contemporary music, from modernism to jazz. Pauline Hall The second of two ceveral events cele- Cirkusbilleder Jan Martin Smørdal brating 100 years of the Norwegian Society My Favorite Thing 3 (WP) of Composers. This lively programme of Therese Birkelund Ulvo Please Don’t Hesitate orchestral works showcases the eclecticism of Arne Nordheim Norway’s contemporary music and its web of String Quartet op.1, ‘Epitaffio’ (last movement) connections from modernism to jazz. Rolf Wallin & Pauline Hall and Arne Nordheim Nils Petter Molvær played hugely influential roles in Norway’s Glacial Speed early take-up of contemporary music; Hall Ingar Bergby when she founded nyMusikk in 1938, and — Conductor Nordheim as an internationally renowned Hasse Hope — Master of ceremonies electronic music composer and populariser of the avant garde. Hall’s orchestral piece This concert forms part of the Cirkusbilleder (1933) is inspired by the 100 year celebration of the Norsk Komponistforening French 20th century music she loved. → (Norwegian Society of Composers)

62 In collaboration with KORK and Norsk Komponistforening. 63 Official festival programme Find us online: Ultima thanks: www.ultima.no Dansens Hus Ultima Oslo Contemporary Facebook: www.facebook. Det Norske komponistfond Music Festival com/ultimaoslo Dextra Musica Twitter: @ultimaoslo Drivhuset Oslo 7–16 September 2017 Instagram: ultimafestivalen EGD Holding AS Ekebergparken AS Editor-in-chief: Program advisory board: Flyktninghjelpen Lars Petter Hagen Per Boye Hansen, Anne Fond for lyd og bilde Filharmonien Hilde Neset, Thomas Schäfer Fond for utøvende kunstnere Contributors: Rob Young and Mattis With Fyrstikkalléen skole and Cathrine Nysæther Grappa −+ Ultima’s members: Institusjonen Fritt Ord Design: NODE Berlin Oslo BIT20 Ensemble Komponistenes www.nodeoslo.com Black Box Teater vederlagsfond Unike Den Norske Opera & Ballett Kulturdepartementet Illustration: Det Norske Kammerorkester Kulturkirken Jakob Tom Mason Det Norske Solistkor Kulturkontakt Nord opplevelser Helge Hjorth Bentsen Henie Onstad kunstsenter Kulturrådet Sara Risvåg Institutt for musikkvitenskap, Kunstløftet UiO MFOs Vederlagsfond Ultima Oslo Contemporary Kringkastingsorkestret, NRK Morgenbladet Music Festival Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo Music Norway NICEM NODE Berlin Oslo Address: Norges musikkhøgskole Nordisk Kulturfond Øvre Slottsgate 3, Norsk Komponistforening Norsk kulturfond 0157 Oslo NOTAM OCA nyMusikk Oslo kommune Post address: Oslo Domkor Oslo kulturnatt c/o Sentralen, Oslo-Filharmonien Park Inn by Radisson Pb 183 Sentrum, 0102 Oslo, Oslo Sinfonietta og Cikada Riksscenen Norway Salt Scandic Hotels Phone: (+47) 22 40 18 90 Sentralen E-mail: [email protected] Sparebankstiftelsen DNB www.ultima.no Swedish Arts Grants Council Ulysses Network and the Print: TS Trykk Creative Europe programme of the European Union This magazine is published Utenriksdepartementet  - with  support from Fritt Ord, Westerdals Oslo School of Association of the Freedom of Arts, Communication and Expression Foundation, Oslo. Technology

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