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

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

“Alog – Unemployed” was recorded in a wide range of spaces and places. From recordings of Haugan and Eide as street musicians in San Francisco while touring, to scavenging old collections of 78-records in the mining town of Bjørnevatn in the far north-eastern part of Norway. From on-the-spot recordings of Sigbjørn Apelands legendary collection of vintage harmoniums in the St. Jacobs Church in Bergen, to high-end capture of the unique sounds of Alogs many custom built... read more

As part of Ultima 2011, Bjarne Kvinnsland’s work Relatively tranquil will be premiered on Saturday, September 17. The concert will take place at the event EXIT at Oslo National Academy of the Arts at 6 p.m. The concert will be performed by Rolf-Erik Nystrøm on the saxophone, Eirik Raude and Markus Hernes on percussion, and Kvinnsland on electronics. Anne Grete Eriksen is in charge of the choreography. See complete program for the event Kvinnsland envisions that the concert will show... read more

Two new works by multimedia artist Camille Norment will be presented at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter September 2011. The Toll will be a unique performance presented as part of the ULTIMA programme. The other will be a 8 channel permanent sound installation for the sculpture park outdoors. NOTAM has been involved in the production of the latter. More information about the Live Performance The 8-channel permanent outdoor sound installation is commissioned by the Henie Onstad Art Center as part of... read more

Ragnarok is a circuit-bending installation by Asbjørn Blokkum Flø which will be premiered at the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival 2011 as part of the event EXIT at Oslo Academy of Arts on September 17 at 6 p.m. Flø developed the installation with assistance from two colleagues at NOTAM, Hans Wilmers and Henrik Sundt, for electronics and software development respectively. A circuit-bending installation by Asbjørn Blokkum Flø. In the installation, Richard Wagner’s 15-hour opera Der... read more

A realtime based sound installation by Åsa Stjerna 2011 (premiere) As part of Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, NOTAM is producing the installation Currents by the Swedish sound artist Åsa Stjerna. The work is to be featured in the foyer at the Opera in Oslo. The premiere coincides with the official opening of the festival, and is part of the opening show PRIMA on September 8. The sound installation Currents is based on a scientific project in the ocean surrounding the Faroe... read more

In connection with the closing of the exhibition ‘Forms of Modern Life‘, which includes two major works by Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970) on loan from The National Museum in Oslo, OCA has commissioned the recreation of a recital of Vevnad as originally composed by Arne Nordheim (1931-2010), and now performed with Hans Josef Groh on cello and Sverre Riise on trombone. Asbjørn Blokkum Flø from NOTAM will control the MIDI-file for the disklavier. This recital marks the first and... read more

Broadcast April 8, 23.05 Length: 45 minutes Radio art work commissioned by Mark Heuger for WDR, German national radio. WDR 3 open: Studio Akustische Kunst “Orbiting alongside the asteroid Itakawa, Divine Olivine is a hazard data observatory, a monitoring station and the first deep space sacred site. Only a few make “The Decade” (as the pilgrimage became known) to breathe filtered air by the Olivine, found in Itakawa.” The Spanish–American artist couple Alejandra Salinas and Aeron... read more

Reality and Secrets no. 2 is an electroacoustic composition by Natasha Barrett created for playback from an ambisonics system. The work is commissioned by NOTAM with support from the Norwegian Composers’ Fund, and will be premiered at the symposium Technology and Aesthetics on May 26, 2011. Our everyday world is a hive of interesting spatial information. In acousmatic music we often use acoustic source material, recorded with various microphone techniques, capturing a specific spatial... read more