Tickets in advance: 2300 Ft / on the day of the program: 2700 Ft
In the frame of Temps d’ Images Festival
CONCERTS:
8pm
BJNilsen (S) - electronics
Hildur Gudnadottir (ISL) cello
John Aitchison - live video (45’)
Szalóki Ági solo (10’)
INTERVAL
9.30pm
Live Remix (N)
Sidsel Endresen - singing
Jan Bang, Erik Honoré - electronics
HC Gilje (N) - realtime video
Punkt Festival 2007: Sidsel Endresen, Jan Bang & Erik Honoré (Live Remix)
Jan Bang - Erik Honoré (N): Live Remix
„Jan Bang and Erik Honore have devised a way of working with their live remix remit which pushes musicians into artistic decisions and creativity in such a way that audiences are an integral part of the artistic process. Musicians are changed and inspired by these situations, and audiences are compelled to confront their attitudes to music, to learn new ways of thinking while still being entertained. Technology is not simply an enabler here but an instrument to be played and nurtured by musicians, playing a vital role in global music history.” (BBC Radio)
Jon Wozencroft: Liquid Music
Jon Wozencroft will present a rare screening of his film “Liquid Music”, made to the music of Christian Fennesz. The film challenges the notion of the sync between sound and image by providing a parallel and yet sympathetic narrative to the music, also creating a counterpoint to the abstract/instrumental/laptop-generated status of Fennesz’s sound by expressing its meditative, flowing and shape-shifting qualities. The footage used for the film is, in contrast to the music, free of any processing and post-production, whilst holding a mirror to the digital language of after-effects and virtual environments. It tries to express the sensual in the context of desiccated image-making and post-human conditioning. Wozencroft will talk about the film in relation to his work for Touch, the audiovisual publishing company he started in 1982 as a means of exploring the powerful chemistry between sound and visual media.
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/
Jan Bang and Erik Honoré (N)
Bang and Honoré, both from Kristiansand, are the founders and artistic directors of Punkt. As a team they have collaborated since the late eighties, since 2005 on the Punkt projects (the studio album “Crime Scenes” and the recent live recording “Punkt Live Remixes vol. 1” together with Jon Hassell and Sidsel Endresen). Bang/Honoré have produced several albums and collaborations (Arve Henriksen’s “Chiaroscuro” and “Cartography”, “Birth Wish” with Bang/Honoré/Henriksen and Christian Wallumrød, “Going Nine Ways from Wednesday” featuring Anne Marie Almedal and lyrics by Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad), and album tracks for Eivind Aarset, Nils Petter Molvær and others. Remixes include “Mother and Child” and “The Only Daughter” by David Sylvian and “No Orders” by J. Peter Schwalm feat. Brian Eno. Bang/Honoré have also composed film music and toured with the Punkt Live Remix concept, and they organized a concert series in 2000 at the Sørlandet Art Museum which provided inspiration for starting the Punkt Festival in 2005. Aside from these collaborative efforts, they also have lives: Jan Bang is a musician and producer. His main instruments are live sampling and programming. Bang is a member of the Jon Hassell Group, Arve Henriksen trio, and participates in a duo project with Sidsel Endresen and a trio with Nils Petter Molvær and DJ Strangefruit. Bang has played with a range of improvisational artists and has received four Norwegian Grammys as a producer.
Erik Honoré is a musician, producer and author. His main instruments are synthesizers, programming and other studio tools. Honoré have produced albums by Velvet Belly, Elsewhere and other Norwegian artists, in addition to the Punkt projects. He received a Norwegia Grammy for Velvet Belly's "Lucia”, and has published 3 novels, most recently: "Kaprersanger" (“Hijacker’s Songs”, Gyldendal 2005).
Sidsel Endresen (N)
Seminal singer and composer Sidsel Endresen is indisputably the first lady of Norwegian improvisational music, internationally renowned for her solo albums on ECM and Jazzland. She has also written music for several theatre and dance performances, and has toured all over Europe, Great Britain, Canada, China and Japan. Endresen has been awarded several Norwegian music awards, among others 4 Norwegian ”Grammies”, the "Buddy Award" 2001 (the Norwegian Jazz Association´s highest award) as well as being nominated for the prestigeous Nordic Council Music Award in 2000. At Punkt 08, Sidsel Endresen will live-remix Rafael Toral's concert together with the festival’s artistic directors Jan Bang and Erik Honoré (live sampling, electronics).
More info about John Aitchison and HC Gilje:
project blog
http://hcgilje.com
http://www.nervousvision.com
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