Borealis
Borealis is a festival for experimental music and a place for adventurous listening, so the amazing composers, sound artists, improvisers and musicians who are joining us this year are all pushing forwards in to exciting new musical worlds. From finely wrought music for sinfonietta to found sound multichannel installations and hard wired dancefloor experiments, we hope you’ll join us at this years festival, and do listen out for more artist announcements over the next few weeks!
For this first programme launch we’re very excited to announce:
* The first ever Borealis collaboration with Bergen National Opera on the World Premiere of Emily Hall’s Opera Folie à Deux featuring a brand new instrument, the electro magnetic harp and the astounding voice of vocalist Sofia Jernberg
* A visit from legendary American composer Christian Wolff to take part in a Sunday afternoon Concert Circus project led by Bergen composer Else Olsen Storesund, also features 86 piece toy orchestra!
* Richard Dawson, a truly unique voice from Bergen’s twin-town Newcastle ”at times deeply, painfully intimate, but also witty, bawdy, surreal, disquieting, nostalgic, brash and fearlessly individual” says The Quietus.
* The first musical month long residency upstairs at Bergen Kunsthall, featuring experimental duo part wild horses mane on both sides, creating a cassette archive of location recordings of Bergen.
* Norwegian premieres of two innovative pieces by acclaimed young composers Larry Goves and Johannes Kreidler performed by Bergen ensemble BIT20.
* Genre bending quartet Sons of Kemet with their blend of jazz, rock, dub, Caribbean folk and traditional African diasporan history