International Computer Music Conference 2018 was this year organized in Daegu, South Korea, from Aug. 5 to Aug. 10. My contribution to this community was a presentation of my work on Norwegian computer music pioneer Knut Wiggen, and this rounds off my academic work on this key figure in the development of our field.
See the article here: The Contributions of Computer Music Pioneer Knut Wiggen.
During the first part of 2018, I am involved in a reconstruction of Blikk (1970), an installation originally created by Irma Salo Jæger (sculptures and light), Sigurd Berge (sound and music) and Jan Erik Vold (text). The work was constructed in collaboration with researchers and engineers from Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) and was performed at the Henie Onstad Arts Center, who also had commissioned the work. The work will be installed in the new National Museum in Oslo, and is being reconstructed as a commission from them.
Lighted rotating paddles mirror colors and cast shadows around the space, and are combined with sound from 10 speakers, so that Jan Erik Vold seems to move carefully around the room while reading. This alternates with Sigurd Berge’s electronic music, which was largely composed at The Gaudeamus-foundation in the Netherlands.
NOTAM is collaborating with the University of Oslo, The National Museum and the architect company Atelier Oslo on a research project about combining physical and virtual realities i an architectural exhibition. NOTAM’s task is to construct acoustically correct soundscapes to two virtual environments, and we are using this opportunity to investigate the effect of different delivery methods and principles to further the knowledge on where the intersection between complexity and necessary quality might be. NOTAM’s team consists of Thom Johansen, Balint Laczko and Jøran Rudi.
The museum of architecture writes this about the exhibition.
From the 14th to the 26th of November 2017 I was on your with Parallax and Anders Tveit in the US and Canada, where they performed a version of Notam’s commission A Parallax View while I lectured on the electroacoustic development of music in Norwegian Music. We visited New York, Princeton, Cincinnati, Oberlin, Kalamazoo and Montreal, and it was a successful tour with interested audiences and excellent performances.
Anders Tveit, Ulf Holbrook and I are arranging this year’s KISS in collaboration with Symbolic Sound in Illinois. The University of Oslo and Norwegian Music Academy are helping with spaces, the Arts Council and the Research Council with money. In collaboration, everything is possible!
More here: http://kiss2017.symbolicsound.com