Trondheim Voices
Trondheim Voices is a groundbreaking Norwegian ensemble of improvising vocalists, constantly challenging and changing the framework for how a vocal ensemble can produce sound art. Since 2001, they have made solid statements as developers within vocal and improvised music, expanding the traditional concert format, searching for new music in the interaction between the singers, the audience, the surroundings and new technology.
Through their many collaborations with cutting edge composers and stage artists, and especially through their collaboration with sound designer Asle Karstad, Trondheim Voices has reached a whole new level of improvising, with both music, movement, new technology, space, and time. The subtle interaction between the singers, the sound-designer, the audience, and the moment, is their point of navigation – making new music through listening and letting go.
Website: https://www.trondheimvoices.no/
Projects
Strømsanger
Part of the program for the score exhibition by NyMusikk Trondheim featuring the exception ‘Hidden Waves’ by Christina Kubisch at Trondheim Kunsthall. Written piece for Trondheim Voices, based on a tram ride to Lian with her electromagnetic earphones that pick up electromagnetic signals.
Performed at NyMusikk Trondheim and Ultima 2023
By Christian Kubisch
Folklore
- (traditional customs, tales, sayings, dances, or art forms preserved among a people).
In this work, the pioneering vocal ensemble uses its voices as one massive microtonal instrument – replacing words with tones, exploring multi-voice drones and sounds in a timeless chant-like manner.
Folklore draws on inspiration from medieval times, ancient rituals and the art of folklore.
Helge Sten and Ståle Storløkken’s work Folklore explores the distance between acoustic and electronic sound, harmonic and microtonal music, the known and unknown. Time ceases and opens up for new ways of listening.
Gjest Song
by Christian Wallumrød
The album “Gjest Song” invites the listener into a timeless space, with music composed by Chrsitian Wallumrød.
In 2015, Trondheim Voices and Wilad at Art made a Gestamtkunstwerk called “Gjestehus”, a long durational performance which took place in a 5 days round the clock open event in Lademoen church during the Trondheim International Olavsfest the same year. Christian Wallumrød was invited to write music that was continuously performed and shaped day by day. Recorded in Melhus kirke in 2020, 5 years after the premiere, the material had time to mature further, without differencing itself too much from the original piece.
Based on the original project´s placement and perspective of time, Christian Wallumrød has composed textless music based on a material which could be shaped in collaboration with the singers, and which could appear at very different times, be combined in various ways and withstand repetition and reuse through the relatively long-time span.
Trehagen
A concert performance in the monastery garden at the rein monastery at Rissa. Based on the story of the nuns who came walking from Europe caring young trees, planting them when they reached Rissa.
Music by Ellen Lindquist, Costumes by Jenny Hilmo Teig, Director: Ane Aas.