ultima oslo contemporary 10–20 september 2014 music festival the nation ultima academy Ludwig van Beethoven / Marie Munroe & Panta Rei Danseteater: wednesday 10 september friday 12 september saturday 13 september The Concept of Nation Thomas Adès / Asbjørn Schaathun / thursday 18 september friday 19 september On the Outside Antonio Negri, Laibach Maja S. K. Ratkje 9 pm — Riksscenen 24 Book launch: Music after 22 July ultima academy Eivind Groven’s just intonation organ 12 pm — Cinemateket 3 Det Norske Kammerorkester Korp, korp Korp, korp New hybrid performance expressing 5 pm — Loftet 13 Scelsi Revisited + Anahit analysed nyMusikk’s Composers Group with p 26 7 pm — Universitetets aula 28 10 am / 11 am — Dansens Hus 4 10 am / 11 am — Dansens Hus 4 the loneliness in togetherness A book on the importance of music 10 am — Loftet 13 specially written music for Groven’s New and old works in the spirit of (also 19 September) Interactive installation for little ones p 45 after 22 July 2011 p 16 famous self-built organ Christophe Meierhans: Beethoven Interactive installation for little ones (age 0–3) p 9 12 pm (bus from Youngstorget, Some Use For Your Broken Clay Pots p 30 (age 0–3) p 40 Avanti! Ensemble: HumppAvanti! at 11. 45 am) — Groven’s house 10 , 9 pm — Black Box Teater 2 p 40 11 pm — Vulkan Arena 29 Opening concert OSLO CULTURE NIGHT Ekebergvn 59 NB: limited space! Proposing a new constitution Helge Sten / Maja S. K. Ratkje / ultima academy Buenos Aires: Simon Finnish contemporary music group Luciano Berio: Coro p 20 p 27 Kåre Kolberg: Eastern Waves ultima academy Utopian North Steen-Andersen, Neue Vocalsolisten, whoop it up, humppa-style with KORK / Det Norske Solistkor Bohman Brothers + 9 pm — Nasjonal Jazzscene 17 10 am — DogA 8 asamisimasa and Esteban Buch in con- Norwegian Disco Lovers (NDL) and 7:30 pm — Oslo Cathedral 22 Vilde&Inga Erik Dæhlin: Avstandsriss Report from Poland’s legendary Panel discussion with Nordic composers versation DJ Mette Monumental tapestry of folk music in 12 pm — nyMusikk 20 Ingfrid Breie Nyhus monday 15 september Warsaw electronic studio p 43 10 am — Loftet 13 p 49 Italian modernist fabric Lunch concert with the English 12 pm / 1 pm / 2 pm p 30 p 47 p 9 eccentrics and improv duo Vilde&Inga — Nasjonalbiblioteket 15 Ole Martin Huser-Olsen Electronic North II p 17 Folk music archive and concert 12 pm — nyMusikk 20 Risto Holopainen, Rikhardur H. ultima academy A Supranational saturday 20 september installation Free guitar lunch concert wednesday 17 september Fridriks son, Thuridur Jonsdóttir Anthem: Beethoven’s Ninth thursday 11 september Ultima Remake: Coro p 21 p 28 1 pm — OCA 21 Esteban Buch Eivind Buene / Karin Rehnqvist / 4 pm — Café MESH 14 Korp, korp Free lunch concert with Nordic 1 pm — Loftet 13 Bent Sørensen ultima academy Ultima’s project for secondary school Bjørn Erik Haugen: Utterances Natasha Barrett: 10 am / 11 am — Dansens Hus 4 electronic music p 49 DR UnderholdningsOrkestret / Mattis Analysis of Kagel’s Exotica pupils. Includes launch of new Remake Nordic Voices OSSTS Oslo Sound Space (also 18 & 19 September) p 41 Herman Nyquist / Andrea Bræin Hovig 10 am — Loftet 13 Recorder app 3 pm — Kulturkirken Jakob 12 Transport System Interactive installation for little ones Øyvind Mæland / Johan Svensson / 2 pm — Universitetets aula 28 p 11 p 19 New work influenced by Julia Kristeva, 4 pm (age 0–3) ultima academy New music online Kai Duncan David / Lisa Streich World premiere of Buene’s new films with inarticulate speech and autism — Deichmanske hovedbibliotek 5 p 40 2.30 pm — OCA 21 Aksiom orchestral radio play , and more ultima academy Othernesses: Arne Nordheim / Øyvind Mæland / p 21 Interactive sound composition Panel on contemporary music and 5 pm — Kulturkirken Jakob 12 p 50 Music in Contemporary Cairo André Jolivet / Asbjørn Schaathun presenting Oslo as you’ve never heard ultima academy Arv streaming with Music Norway, Nordic Chamber music concert featuring 4 pm — Cinemateket 3 Håkon Austbø (piano) Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe it before Øyvind Torvund / Asbjørn Schaathun Playlist et al. young Nordic composers Verdensteatret: Bridge Over Mud p 11 5 pm — Nasjonalgalleriet 16 Bernhard Schütz / Reinhold Friedl p 29 Ingfrid Breie Nyhus (piano) p 41 p 47 2 pm — Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 11 A celebration of Austbø’s fifty years as 7 pm — Nationaltheatret 18 1 pm — Kulturkirken Jakob 12 (Also 21–28 September) Liza Lim / Henrik Hellstenius an active pianist Film and stage actor Bernhard Schütz Johannes Kreidler: Audioguide New music for piano, plus panel on EMS Anniversary Concert Verdensteatret: Bridge Over Mud New theatre work from internationally Cikada Ensemble p 16 and pianist Reinhold Friedl (Zeitkratzer) Ensemble neoN / Johannes Kreidler folk and modernity Hanna Hartmann / Erik Bünger 6 pm — Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 11 renowned ensemble 6 pm — Nasjonalgalleriet 16 update Schumann’s Romantic classic 6 pm — Dramatikkens hus 9 p 39 5 pm — Kulturkirken Jakob 12 (Also 20–28 September) p 46 Pan-cultural chamber music Horisonter p 22 Several hours of musical interrogation One of the most important nodes in New theatre work from internationally p 10 Eirik Raude / Arve Henriksen / Bjarne in a talkshow format New Music Incubator Oslo Reunion Scandinavian electronic music turns 50 renowned ensemble Djuro Zivkovic / Hikari Kiyama / Kvinnsland / Knut Bry / mmw arkitekter Laibach / Edvard Grieg: p 28 3 pm — Riksscenen 24 p 44 p 46 Morten Ladehoff / Sampo Haapamäki ultima academy Scelsi The Original 6 pm — DogA 8 Olav Tryggvason p 39 Ensemble Ernst 6 pm — Italian Culture Institute 7 Performance to open an installation Laibach Kjell Habbestad: Nenia Simon Steen-Andersen: Buenos Aires Anna Thorvaldsdottir / Simon Steen- 6 pm — Kulturkirken Jakob 12 Lecture and presentation of Klang- inspired by Sverre Fehn’s architecture 10 pm — Sentrum Scene 25 7 pm — Musikk & Scenehuset 26 Electronic North I Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart / Andersen / Ørjan Matre / Malin Bång New works by Nordic composers forum Wien’s Scelsi Revisited concert p 19 Slovenian avant rockers complete Chamber opera in memoriam Ida Lundén / Maija Hynninen / Asamisimasa Oslo-Filharmonien p 53 p 13 Norway’s lost national opera Fartein Valen Osmo Tapio Räihälä 7.30 pm 7 pm — Oslo Konserthus 23 Mauricio Kagel: Exotica p 23 p 29 6 pm — OCA 21 — Den Norske Opera & Ballett 6 Orchestral works from Iceland, Ultima Finale Scelsi Revisited Ensemble Modern Electronic music by Swedish and (also 19 September) Denmark, Sweden and Norway Ben Frost A U R O R A live / Georg Friedrich Haas, Tristan Murail, 8 pm — Riksscenen 24 Finnish composers Cultural collision as Scandinavia meets p 48 Karin Krog & John Surman / TCF / Ragnhild Berstad, Giacinto Scelsi Kagel’s modern classic, critiquing sunday 14 september tuesday 16 september p 40 Latin America in a new chamber opera Jeppe Just Instituttet Klangforum Wien Western music’s cultural dominance p 42 Simon Steen-Andersen: Buenos Aires 10 pm – 2 am — Vulkan Arena 29 8 pm — Kulturkirken Jakob 12 p 17 Ultima’s Children’s Day ultima academy The Case of Wagner: David Brynjar Franzson: Longitude Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart / Cool jazz, militant post-classical New works originating in the enigmatic 11 am – 4 pm Workshop on Music and Ethics Ensemble Adapter Marie Munroe & Panta Rei Danseteater: Asamisimasa electronica, barrel organs and 70s/80s composer’s previously unheard sonic — Den Norske Opera & Ballett 6 10 am — Loftet 13 8 pm — Vulkan Arena 29 On the Outside 7. 30 pm synths sketches Jenny Hval & Susanna: We let kids take over the Opera House p 31 Opera about Iceland’s ‘dog-days 9 pm — Riksscenen 24 — Den Norske Opera & Ballett 6 p 54 p 12 Meshes of Voice for a whole day to create their own republic’ (Also 19 September) Cultural collision as Scandinavia meets 10 pm — Kulturkirken Jakob 12 music festival ultima academy Badiou’s Republic p 38 New hybrid performance expressing Latin America in a new chamber opera See also Ultima Festival’s programme Ensemble NING: Rikskonsert Critically acclaimed duo play concert p 26 Alain Badiou the loneliness in togetherness p 42 of films and installations 10 pm — Teatersalen, Bondeung- version of their collaborative project 2 pm — Loftet 13 p 45 p 55–56 domslaget i Oslo 27 p 18 p 31 An alternative national music canon PechaKucha: Løffler and Lisinski p 13 9 pm — Vulkan Arena 29 More information at ultima.no p 41 2 3 1 ATELIER NORD ANX 11 HENIE ONSTAD KUNSTSENTER 21 OCA M U A A L T R L A M E I G D Olaf Ryes pl. 2, 0552 Oslo Sonja Henies vei 31, 1311 Høvikodden Nedre gate 7, 0551 Oslo V A M A L Å R O L L K S H S K V V V 2 C E E ateliernord.no/anx/ hok.no oca.no E O I I T I E E E S N N 19 N ST. 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