NORDIC SOUND ART AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC

 

Place: Vuosali, Vuotalo, Mosaiikkitori 2, Helsinki.

Date: Saturday, May 11, 2019

Time: 19:00-21:30

Free entrance

 
The producer of the event is Akusmata, the first sound art gallery in Finland. The event is supported by Vuotalo Cultural Centre and Nordic Culture Fund / Puls.
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​ARTISTS​
 
HARALD FETVEIT
​(NO)​
 
Harald Fetveit started to play noise in the mid-eighties. He has developed a characteristic, forward-leaning sound, often full of ruptures and rapid dynamic changes. He was educated in visual arts, and has worked with site specific installations and photography, but also been involved in contemporary dance and performance art, with a.o. Baktruppen. Since 2003, he has been running “Dans for voksne”, a series for experimental concerts and related activities, and has played a major role in the development of Oslo’s experimental music scene.
 
His focus has always been on the live-setting. He has played with people like Junko Hiroshige, Hankli Ryu, Mattin, Lucio Capece, John Hegre, Jim Denley and Anla Courtis, with whom he also collaborates in the project DNA? AND? with kids with mental disabilities. He is currently active with drummer Thomas Oxem in their duo SKÆVV and with sax-player Dario Fariello in their duo Sciardac. “Norway’s finest improvising noise/voice duo” has been stated on his latest album with vocal artist Agnes Hvizdalek, the album was released in November 2018.
 
haraldfetveit.no
soundcloud.com/user-438589218
sanntidsmusikk.bandcamp.com/
SONJA TOFIK
​(SE)​
 
Sonja Tofik makes intimate and often melancholic ambient that draws upon influences from folk music and noise. Her distorted and slowly lulling synth loops are paired with folk-inspired vocal melodies and field recorded samples, a haunting sound both atmospheric and anguished. Through intimate and subdued synth music, echoing of organ harmonies, Tofik creates a realm of sonic shadows. In 2017, she released her debut EP ’Neuros’, and ’Vilar i dina spår’ together with Marlena Lampinen, both on the label Moloton. Previous shows include, among others; Fylkingen, Stockholm, Moderna museet, Stockholm, and Intonal festival, Malmö. ​Tofik is part of Stockholm studio collective Drömfakulteten. ​She lives in Stockholm and Berlin. ​
 
https://soundcloud.com/sonjatofik
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xQ4lVwDOjBxjaPO5hIiC3

FREDRIK MATHIAS JOSEFSON
​(SE)​
 
Fredrik Mathias ​​Josefson has for several years worked in the area between sound art and electroacoustic compositions and questioned concepts such as installation and concerts. His artwork, performed in this concert, titled ‘What Can I Say To Convince You That All My Happiness Is In Loving You?’, is an example of this and the question is raised: what is an installation, what is a composition?
Recently, Fredrik Mathias Josefson’s focus has been to spatialize sound in compositions for high-density speaker arrays and within that format create sound environments of artificial field recordings and sound objects. The speaker elements make the air vibrate — a vibration which reaches the ears like sound. In this work, the vibrations have shifted from the air to the objects, from the intangible to the physical. The work has a narrative, but what is manifested is a short slice in this narrative. Time is frozen, but nothing is still – everything is vibrating.​ ​Josefson is active in the international experimental and electroacoustic music and art scenes with over thirty albums and over a hundred concerts. He lives and works in Stockholm and Hamburg where he is researching at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
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http://www.mathiasjosefson.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7CgSCQLmQuvpWHKFmOy80P