NOTAM is pleased to announce an electroacoustic concert at Riksscenen, featuring works by Anders Vinjar, Natasha Barrett, Rose Dodd and Monty Adkins, and with Britt Pernille Frøholm playing the hardanger fiddle. The audience will have the opportunity to experience 3D sound from all directions, transforming the concert space into an audio-musical landscape. Date: November 1 Doors: 7 p.m. Concert starts: 8 p.m. Tickets: NOK 150 / 100 – Order Sted: Riksscenen (Schouskvartalet) The concert... read more

We are pleased to announce that we will run our introductory course in Ableton Live once more in the late fall of 2012. The course will be taught evenings on the five following dates: November 27 December 4 December 6 December 11 December 13 Ableton Live is a loop-based music sequenser. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing and arranging. This course goes through the software’s... read more

- an arranged marriage between theater and technology By: Kate Pendry and Ståle Stenslie Where: Dramatikkens Hus Date: September 21 & 22, 7 p.m. Can technology influence and explore stage text? Or does the technology fall into place when the text is finished, and is it the case that text needs developed technology to reach further? Kate Pendry and Ståle Stenslie invites us to their new concept Voice Catcher. In a meeting with Stenslie’s newly constructed machine, Pendry will test... read more

Programming, synthesis and signal processing in Max/MSP is an Internet-based course produced by NOTAM in 2009–2010. The aim of this course is to provide a thorough review of the software, so that the participants after the course participation can produce their own solutions in Max/MSP. The course is aimed at those with normal basic knowledge in music. This course provides basic training in programming in Max/MSP, as well as an understanding of digital sound modelling. The participants will... read more

«…Why should you gaze on the dance of Shulammite as on the dance of two armies?..» is a female dancer in the company of an interactive, robot sculpture ensemble. With its human and hyper-human actors this performance moves in between of those blurred boundaries that seem to separate body and image, man and machine, the inner and outer beauty and the grotesque. Questions of how the desirable body is presented as well as how we relate to the tabooed body and its awkwardness, its... read more

From October 15 through 19, NOTAM will be teaching a course in studio technique. The course is taught using the software Pro Tools, which is one of the standards for working with sound in various different fields such as music, radio, film soundtracks, sound art, composition and video arts. Through learning this tool, the course provides an introduction to basic studio technique. The course requires no prior knowledge of Pro Tools. It will, however, also be useful to people who have worked with... read more

NOTAM has moved to new premises at Myrens Verksted just south of Sagene. Additionally, it is 20 years since we were founded,  and we are using this double occasion to arrange an opening week with concerts, workshops, lectures, art installations and a DJ. Serving of alcohol and snacks in the evenings. Terrace with a view of the Akerselva river! Concerts: EAR (IR), T-EMP, SPUNK, DrOx (Tanja Orning/Natasha Barrett), Victoria Johnson, Potential Music (Anders Vinjar/Silje Marie Aker Johnsen)... read more

What happens when chess players get to perform music? What does check mate sound like? Sted: Main Library, University of Oslo Dato: September 7 – 14, 2012 Musicians: Maja Ratkje, Lasse Marhaig, Guttorm Andreasen, Peter Edwards, Asbjørn Blokkum Flø, Ulf Holbrook, Jonas Bartsen Johnsen, Erik Strutz, Eskil Muan Sæther og Anders Tveit Chess player: Simen Agdestein (former grand master & 7 times Norwegian champion), Hans Olav Lahlum (author, chess player and politician), Aryan Tari... read more

Norwegian Academy of Music and NOTAM are pleased to announce that Music Technology Days 2012 will be arranged in Oslo October 23 – 26. Sevaral types of submisions are possible for this year’s Music Technology Days — see here for more details. The program will begin to take form in July, so keep an eye on these pages for more... read more

On Saturday June 9 at 7 pm, Elin Øyen Vister will mark the release of her album Soundscape Røst, Spaces and Species Vol. I at Café Mir. Other artists featured at the release concert will be Dronekvartetten, Maja Ratkje and Alexsander Rishaug. ... read more