PROJECTS
Bedrock
Bedrock is an audiovisual concert performance. The immersive sound of the voices blends with video projections, subtle scenography and light design, resulting in a sensuous experience that opens up the space around us and within us, letting us hear with the eyes and see with our ears.
Folklore
Folklore: traditional customs, tales, sayings, dances, or art forms preserved among a people
Get ready for an extraordinary concert performance when two of Norway’s most distinguished sound artists, writes music for some of their countrys finest experimental vocalists.
Rooms & Rituals
In Rooms & Rituals each singer’s extended vocal techniques, individuality and timbre results in a unique quality to the groups collective tone. Through the use of their unique effect controllers “Maccatrols”, they create wide electroacoustic soundscapes, subtle noise, hauntingly beautiful chorales, and ambient beats. Free improvisation plays a vital part in their concerts, but also incorporating original compositions from the group members and music written for the ensemble by composers such as Jon Balke, Ståle Storløkken and Christian Wallumrød.
Strømsanger
The remarkable and ever-innovating sound artist, Christina Kubisch is known for her electrical walks, evolving since the early 1970s, where you can hear the otherwise inaudible electromagnetic noise of the environment through specially designed headphones.
Ekkokammer
The voice is a unique instrument, inevitably connected to the body. Everybody has a voice – that can be shared and interpreted among all who can hear. A voice can soothe or shake, in recognition or provocation. Never boring! The music of the vocal cords has direct access to the human soul. Ekkokammer 2.0 is all about what it means to have a voice, metaphorically as well as physically. What do you wish to express with your voice? The singers’ own answers and thoughts to this question comes through in this piece. All spoken text is exact transcriptions from interviews with performers in Trondheim Voices, but the lines are spread among the singers, and we no longer remember who said what in the first place. But that doesn’t matter now.
PAST PROJECTS
A World of Daughters
Trondheim Voices, Jon Balke, Asle Karstad and strings.
BINGO!
Bingo is numbers, rows, quadrants, dots, groups, movements, silence, loneliness, companionship, excitements, coincidence, luck, apathy, belief in faith, hard work, happiness, envy and hope…
Gjestehus
Gjestehus was a living piece of art that took place continuously during five days in Lademoen church. People were invited to join us into Gjestehus at any time and get away from daily life as you know it.
Hundre hemmeligheter
Trondheim Voices featured in Circa Teater’s award winning musical “Hundre Hemmeligheter” at Trøndelag Theater in Trondheim. By way of sounddesigner Asle Karstad’s custom built portable and wireless effect module system “Maccasolve”, the Trondheim Voices created all instrumentation on stage by only using voice and live electronics.
Improvoicing
Trondheim Voices & Mazur/Gustavsson/Balke
Three of our most interesting Nordic improvisers have composed music for eight Norwegian vocal improvisators!
On Anodyne
Jon Balkes’ “On Anodyne” was commisioned by Trondheim Voices and premiered at the Molde Jazz Festival 2011. The work is a suite for 9 voices and 4 percussionists. The percussion collective ”Batagraf” consists of Jon Balke and a handful of drummers that explore polyphonic techniques in new music with roots in West African Wolof music.
Popludium
Trondheim Voices & Wild at Art
Songs Around the World
Two of Sweden’s most influential and innovative vocalists and composers; Lina Nyberg and Josefine Lindstrand have together created a completely new work called Songs around the world. Songs around the world is a dizzying concert experience, specially composed for the spectacular Norwegian voice ensemble Trondheim Voices and the danish percussionist Michala Östergaard-Nielsen. Lina and Josefine also participate themselves. The music contains composed and improvised parts that reflect collected moments from around the world.
Space Unfolding
In june -16 Trondheim Voices did a one week residency in cooperation with Whitebox in Munchen. The ensemble worked together with artist in residency Asle Karstad and German visual artist Laurenz Theinert in creating a sensoric and unpredictable open space for the audience.