mobius ii for hardanger fiddle & fixed media by British composer Rose Dodd is the result of a two part residency at NOTAM, supported by the Musician’s Benevolent Fund Professional Development award and CeReNeM, the University of Huddersfield. The piece is a meditation/lament for the young politicians of Utøya who were massacred in idyllic surroundings on a fateful day in July 2011. Its opening is centred around environmental recordings Dodd made close to Utoya island evoking the peace,... read more

The French composer Pierre Schaeffer would have been 100 years old in 2010. The was celebrated at Caféteatret during Grønland Chamber Music Festival on December 4. Schaeffer is considered the first composer who wrote works consisting solely of recorded material, and he coined the term musique concrète –  concrete music. He was also a brilliant writer and an influential music philosopher. Both his music and the theory supporting it have proved to be milestones in recent music history, and... read more

Considerable Norwegian contributions to Warsaw Autumn 2010. NOTAM and MIC Music Information Centre Norway have collaborated with Polish MIC and the Warszaw Autumn Festival for several years.  In 2009, we had 2 Polish composers visiting Norway, and NOTAM supported their artistic development work. This autumn, we planned and produced both concerts and individual performances during the 2010 Warsaw Autumn. The symposium Electronics Meets the Challenges of the 21st Century was largely based on... read more

A multichannel sound installation by Jana Winderen 08.09.10 – 18.09.10 in the entrance hall at the Opera as part of Ultima 2010 This installation builds upon the material from the album Energy Field, released by Touch on 6th April 2010. Jana Winderen researches the hidden depths with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of ice crevasses are brought to the surface. She is concerned... read more

During the course of 2009 it has become clear that NOTAM will enter into a collaboration with the Warsaw Autumn festival. The collaboration is being planned as a long-term project lasting several years, with exchanges on many levels. The collaboration has been facilitated through MIC – Music Information Centre Norway, and we are glad to pick up where we left off ten years ago, when NOTAM arranged an internet concert – WHO HOW WOH – with Warsaw Autumn and the Sibelius Academy in... read more