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ultima

8–17 september 2016

oslo contemporary music festival

11:30 Ultima Remake 2016p. 31 Ultima Academy

Edvard Munch VGS

12:00 Elisabeth Holmertz andp. 32 Kenneth Karlsson

Sentralen/Forstanderskapssalen

15:00 Russian Invasionp. 33 Ultima Academy

Sentralen/Vinterhagen

17:00 Ignas Krunglevicius p. 34 Riot

Sentralen/Hvelvet

19:00 Trond Reinholdtsenp. 35 Theory of the Subject

The Oslo Philharmonic Sentralen/Marmorsalen

20:00 Sudesh Adhana p. 36 But It Has Not Ended

Riksscenen

21:00 Ensemble Nadarp. 37 Lesaserma Pokhunakis

Kulturkirken Jakob

22:00 Frode Haltli p. 38 Grenseskogen

Riksscenen

friday 16 september

15:00 Supriya Nagarajanp. 39 Lullaby Oslo 2016

Installation opening Sentralen/Gymsalen

18:00 Stefan Prins p. 40 Piano Hero

Sentralen/Forstanderskapssalen

19:00 Benjamin Britten p. 17 War Requiem

Den Norske Opera & Ballett

19:00 Ultima Vezp. 41 In Spite of Wishing

and Wanting Dansens Hus

20:00 Karlheinz Stockhausenp. 42 Sternklang

Ekebergparken

saturday 17 september

13:00 Lumen Dronesp. 43 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

16:00 Oslo Cameratap. 44 Det Norske Solistkor

Sentralen/Marmorsalen

17:00 Triologen (The Trilogy)p. 45 Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo

18:00 Tony Conrad p. 46 Slapping Pythagoras

Ultima Academy Kulturhuset

19:00 Ultima Vez p. 41 In Spite of Wishing and

Wanting Dansens Hus

20:00 Terry Riley and KORKp. 47 Rockefeller Music Hall

tuesday 6 september

19:00 Exploring Britten’s War Requiem Ultima Academy Sentralen/Vinterhagen

wednesday 7 september

19:00 The Big O Launch party Vippa

thursday 8 september

16:00 Yngvild K. Rolland Bodies and Heads Installation opening Sentralen

OPENING CONCERT19:00 Rolf Wallin/Avdal/Shinozaki

The Otheroom Oslo rådhus

friday 9 september

13:00 The Echo of All Past Music Ultima Academy

Installation opening Sentralen/Gymsalen

13:00 Tonal War Ultima Academy Sentralen/Gymsalen

18:00 Jacob Kierkegaardp. 12 ISFALD

Fotogalleriet

18:00 Bent Sørensen De fire årstider Kulturkirken Jakob

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21:00 Manos Tsangarisp. 14 winzig


saturday 10 september

13:00 Beethoven Everywherep. 15 Ultima Academy

Sentralen/Gymsalen

15:00 Ensemble Ernst p. 16 Sentralen/Marmorsalen

18:00 Benjamin Brittenp. 17 War Requiem


21:00 Manos Tsangarisp. 14 winzig

Sentralen

21:00 La Monte Youngp. 18 Kulturkirken Jakob

sunday 11 september

12:00–16:00p. 19 Ultima Children’s Day

Sentralen

19:00 Ludwig van Beethoven:p. 20 Symphony No. 9

The Oslo Philharmonic Oslo Konserthus

19:00 Beethoven Remixp. 21 Sentralen/Marmorsalen

monday 12 september

19:00 Morton Feldmanp. 22 Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello


tuesday 13 september

17:00 Karin Hellqvistp. 23 Sentralen/

Forstanderskapssalen

19:00 Benjamin Brittenp. 17 War Requiem


19:00 The Norwegianp. 24 Chamber Orchestra


21:00 Maja S. K. Ratkjep. 25 Ekkokammer 2.0

Kulturkirken Jakob


12:00 Ensemble Temporump. 26 Sentralen/

Forstanderskapssalen

14:00 Blows Against the Systemp. 27 Ultima Academy

Sentralen/Gymsalen

18:00 Sjøforsvarets musikkorps &p. 28 Det Norske Blåse ensemble

Universitetets aula

21:00 Jenny Hvalp. 29 Blood Bitch

Vulkan Arena

thursday 15 september

10:00 Ulysses Day at Ultimap. 30 Ultima Academy

Sentralen

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A Call to ListenThe Austrian poet Stefan Zweig lived his life in a period of high political tension in Europe. Nevertheless, he was unshakable in his belief in a European project, individual-ism and how art and culture have a crucial meaning for how we see each other and our own selves, and how we can live together and conduct ourselves towards each other. In a time when the news is dominated by

growing nationalism, music’s borderlessness and utopian potential are possibly more important than ever. The last movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is understood to be the composer’s notion of the kind of world he desired to live in. An image of humanity where the glue is the individual’s connection to everyone else – not generals or religious leaders: ’All people become brothers’. Beethoven’s vision is just as relevant today, and is indeed a jumping- off point for this year’s Ultima Festival. Music is in a constant dialogue between past, present and future. The nature of listening is to connect the past with the future in an instant. To listen is to open yourself, to subject yourself to new impressions, insights and knowledge. With a programme stretching across ten days and more than 50 events, both indoors and out, including concerts, performing arts, installations, film screenings and talks, Ultima offers experiences for big and small, for the connoisseur and for the musically curious. This year we are also delighted to be taking part in The Big O initiative, where Ultima is collaborating with leading, innovative culture institutions and enthusiasts in Oslo. The Big O is about music, literature, performing arts, fashion, food, film, art, architec-ture, urban development and more, all gathered under the Oslo region’s challenging vision: ’The best lies ahead of us.’ Welcome to Ultima and Oslo – Scandinavia’s music capital!

Lars Petter Hagen Artistic directorUltima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go some-where, anywhere, sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore– Stefan Zweig

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With its devastating setting of the requiem mass intercut with the traumatised war poetry of Wilfred Owen, who died in the First World War, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem (1962) is one of the most powerful anti-war statements in the entire musical canon. Per Boye Hansen, director of Norsk Opera og Ballett, and director Calixto Bieito will discuss their staging of Britten’s work, which is being performed on seven nights in Oslo during September and October. Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Nor-wegian Refugee Council, will question how much the world of conflict has changed and the continuing relevance of Britten’s message. This year’s Ultima Academy creator Rob Young, author of Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music, sets this beautiful and gripping pacifist oratorio in context of the wider picture of twentieth century British music, and its relevance to this year’s Ultima festival.

There is currently a high international level of interest in the culture, quality of life and ’otherness’ of Scandinavia. The focus has shifted from mountains and fjords, long parental leave and Edvard Munch’s Scream, to newer forms of cultural expression. It’s now our authors, musicians, film makers, dramatists, artists, chefs, designers and architects that the world craves more of. This is visible in a steadily growing interest in Norway as a cultural destination. But what is actually at the core of Norwegian culture? And how is it changing in a society which to a large degree is characterised by new impulses and pressures from the wider world? The Big O is the new collaborative pilot project by a cluster of some of Oslo’s and Norway’s leading cultural institutions and the best and most innovative culture enthusiasts. On 7 September we invite you to a big open-ing party for The Big O, where we’ll give the public a foretaste of the project’s exciting and diverse programme and future plans. Information and programme: thebigo.no

In collaboration with DNO&B, Flyktninghjelpen and Norwegian Society of Composers.

Sentralen/ VinterhagenTime 19:00Ticket Free Entry

Jan EgelandCalixto BieitoPer Boye HansenRob Young (moderator)

Artistic performance byBjarne Sakshaug and Evan LeRoy Johnson

The panel will be illustrated with slides, musical extracts and clips from Derek Jarman’s 1989 film adaptation starring Sir Laurence Olivier

VippaTime 19:00Ticket Free Entry

ultima academy Exploring Britten’s War Requiem

The Big O — Launch party

6 september 7 septembertuesday wednesday

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Ultima opens in a whirl with Rolf Wallin, Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki’s restless flow of sound, light and movement. Rolf Wallin’s Elysium, premiered at the beginning of the year at Oslo Opera House, took opera into a science fiction future where an advanced race of ‘transhumans’ has eradicated disease and ageing. For Ultima’s opening concert Wallin has extended Elysium’s world of sound and voice in motion, to create a new work, The Otheroom, filling the Oslo City Hall with a pageant of fluid, non-stop movement. Danc-ers, musicians, floating black and white helium-filled balloons containing loudspeak-ers, and even the audience will never stay fixed to one spot. Created in collaboration with Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki /fieldworks, this event is described by the composer as ‘a kind of ritual’.

Yngvild K. Rolland presents an installation with abstract sculptures in new works based on deconstructed and transformed instru-ments made of brass, such as her compressed tuba, trumpet and trombone, a project she started in New York in 2012. Based in Paris and Oslo, Rolland is a Norwegian visual artist working in media such as sound, sculpture, installation, video, drawing, prints and text. We kick off with a launch and installation opening over drinks at Sentralen, where the topics of Ultima 2016 will be discussed. Festival director Lars Petter Hagen and Ultima Academy curator Rob Young will out-line the general themes underlying this year’s concerts and talks programme, and Yngvild Rolland will discuss her new installa-tion. Join us to get the inside knowledge about all things Ultima!

Supported by Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond.In collaboration with Norwegian Society of Composers.

Oslo rådhusTime 19:00 Ticket Free EntryTicket required – ultima.no

Composer & concept: Rolf WallinChoreography, scenography & concept: Heine Avdal, Yukiko ShinozakiMusicians: Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Bruce Collings, Melvyn PoorePerformers: Heine Avdal, Michiel Reynaert, Orfee Schuijt, Benjamin VandewallePerformed also by: Krisjanis SantsAssisted by: Kayoko Minami, Ingrid HaakstadTechnical director: Hans MeijerTechnique: Matthieu VirotSound technique: Fabrice Moinet, Johann LoiseauLive electronics programming: Peiman KhosraviProducers: fieldworks, Heine Avdal, Ultima (Co-producers: STUK

Sentralen Time 16:00Ticket Free Entry

Installation opening Installation stands till 17/9

Ultima LaunchpadLars Petter HagenYngvild RollandRob Young

Rolf Wallin The Otheroom (w ��)Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki / fieldworks

Yngvild K. Rolland Bodies and Heads (w ��)

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Supported by Arts Council Norway, Vlaamse Overheid, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, PACT Zollverein.In collaboration with Norwegian Society of Composers.

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Students from the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo present their com-position project. The pieces were written in collaboration with composer and academic Peter Edwards over four workshops during the spring of 2015. The project is both practical and theoretical and its starting points are geographic loca-tions or buildings in Oslo, including concert venues that have been used for previous Ultima festivals. The students have acquired knowledge about these places and their asso-ciated sounds. Starting here, they have devel-oped electroacoustic compositions recounting the history story behind each place.

In collaboration with Norwegian Society of Composers.

Sentralen/GymsalenTime 13:00–16:00Ticket Free Entry

Students from the Depart-ment of Musicology at the University of Oslo Artist Helen Sæther

Ultima Academy is a series of talks, lectures and panel discussions and is free and open to anyone interested in knowing more about the ideas that underlie this year’s festival programme.

ultima academyThe Echo of All Past Music

Whether it’s Beethoven’s Eroica, Shostak-ovich’s 7 th Symphony, Britten’s War Requiem or Steve Reich’s WTC 9/11, music has always responded to war and conflict. At the same time composers and musicians are often at war with themselves. In Tonal War, Ultima ventures onto the battlefield to ask how today’s composers and musicians can develop a musical language that can deal with the horrors of the 21st century. Speakers include Rolf Wallin, whose Strange News (2007) was inspired by the phenomenon of African child soldiers, US composer and author Jan Swafford has doc-umented Beethoven’s internal anguish and has himself composed memorial music for the casualties of America’s wars.

Sentralen/Gymsalen Time 13:00 Ticket Free Entry

Rolf WallinJan SwaffordRob Young (moderator)

This panel will debate the combat-readiness of modern music, or whether it still needs some basic training.


ultima academy Tonal War

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In addition to his installation MELT opening 8 September at Fotogalleriet, there will be a live performance by Danish artist and com-poser Jacob Kirkegaard of his renowned work ISFALD (2013). Isfald is the Danish word for ‘Icefall’, one of the many names for ice formations in the Arctic. Based on the recordings of calving glaciers with a hydro-phone, which makes it possible to record sounds travelling from hundreds of kilometres away, Kirkegaard reassembles the recorded sound in his live performance. MELT is part of Fotogalleriet’s Arctic- themed group show, ‘For a gentle song would not shake us if we had never heard a loud one’, curated by Stephanie von Spreter.

The participation of Jacob Kirkegaard is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation.

9 september9 september fridayfriday

Fotogalleriet Time 18:00Ticket Free Entry

Live performance and artist conversation with Anne Hilde Neset, nyMusikk

Jacob Kierkegaard ISFALD

A one-year cycle depicted in a unique audio-literary collaboration. Life, art, love, the world, the weather – all this is reflected in Norwegian novelist Tomas Espedal’s forthcoming book Året (The Year). At the same time, Danish composer Bent Sørensen has always had ambitions to com-pose a musical work around the seasonal cycle. In a mixture of readings by Tomas Espedal of his diary-style narrative, chatter-ing, singing and humming, these two artists’ parallel visions of the year are transformed into a new music piece in collaboration with legendary Norwegian ensemble POING. The world’s and nature’s transience and degen-eration are a constant theme in the work of Bent Sørensen. Tomas Espedal has published twelve books in eighteen different territories since 1988.

Kulturkirken JakobTime 18:00Ticket 200,–/100,–Performed in Norwegian

Rolf-Erik Nystrøm – saxophonesFrode Haltli – accordionHåkon Thelin – double bassTomas Espedal – recitation

Bent Sørensen De fire årstider (w ��)POING, Tomas Espedal

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Intimate tour of Sentralen’s hidden spaces with the deviously inventive German composer. Manos Tsangaris’s winzig (Tiny) – Music theatre miniatures / Theatre for a house is a series of music-theatre miniatures, designed for a building. His work disrupts standard listening environments and utilises space in radical new ways – here at Sentralen, over a period of three hours, the public will move in small groups between a series of around ten listening stations scattered all over the building. At each stage a performance using lo-fi electronics, self-built instruments and found objects will take place. These poetic ‘private shows’, for a handful of listeners at a time, are an exclusive meet-ing with one of Europe’s most notable composers.

Supported by Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, Arts Council Norway and Goethe Institut Norwegen.

Sentralen/ MarmorsalenTime 21:00 Ticket 200,–/100,–

The audience will be admitted in groups between 21:00–22:00Also showing: 10/9

CikadaOslo DomkorVivianne Sydnes – conductorAne Marthe Sørlien HolenSigrun GomnæsJohanne ByhringAmund Sjølie SveenErik DæhlinSilje Aker JohnsenMarita Vårdal IgelkjønnSingers from Ensemble 96

Manos Tsangariswinzig – Music theatre miniatures / Theatre for a house

9 septemberfriday

The Western music classical canon is unthinkable without the music of Beethoven. Yet the man was a mass of conflicts and contradictions, which are still a part of the mythology of our own musical era. In this mini-symposium we explore Beethoven’s legacy and contemporary reso-nances. Jan Swafford is an American author and composer whose recent biogra-phy is the most definitive to date. British critic Philip Clark (Gramophone, The Wire, etc) gives a personal view of Beethoven’s status and legacy, taking us through the unusual pathways and creative uses and abuses of Beethoven’s work throughout the 20th century.

In collaboration with Norwegian Society of Composers.

Sentralen/Gymsalen Time 13:00Ticket Free Entry

Jan SwaffordPhilip Clark Rob Young (moderator)


ultima academyBeethoven Everywhere

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Chamber music shaped by hidden patterns in nature and physics. Ultima regulars Ensemble Ernst formed in 1996 to specialise in new music. This sequence of three Norwegian premieres highlights work with undercurrents from the natural sciences. The starting point for sound sculptor Christian Blom’s Bring Me That Horizon was noises made by his self-built mechanical orchestra. The random movement of his automata revealed a music he could never have dreamed up in his own imagina-tion. Jan Martin Smørdal is fascinated by the swarming and flocking movements of insects, birds and animals, and herd(STUDY) attempts to replicate such forms of ‘emer-gent behaviour’. In Ragnhild Berstad’s new piece, sounds of glass are mixed with instru-mental interpretations of robins’ birdsong. xtendõ is an exploration of time and being-in-the- moment: creating a deeper sense of now.

Kulturkirken Jakob Time 15:00 Ticket 200,–/100,–

Christian Blom Bring Me That Horizon (WP)Jan Martin Smørdal herd(STUDY) (WP)Ragnhild Berstad xtendõ (WP)

Silje Aker Johnsen – sopranoVidar Koksvik – glass artist

Ensemble Ernst

Den Norske Opera & Ballett Time 18:00Ticket 645,–/100,–

Premiere party in the foyer after the show

Also showing:13/9, 16/9, 18/9, 23/9, 25/9 and 3/10 2016

Music – Benjamin BrittenLibretto – Benjamin Britten, on Latin chants and poems byWilfred OwenConducting – Lothar KoenigsDirecting – Calixto BieitoSet Design – Susanne GschwenderCostume Design – Ingo KrüglerLIighting Design – Michael Bauer

With Natalia Tanasii, Evan LeRoy Johnson, Johannes Kammler, The Norwegian National Opera Chorus, The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, The Children’s Chorus Produced by DNO&B. Coproduction with Theater Basel.

Britten’s 20th century English choral master-piece is one of classical music’s most power-ful responses to the shattering impact of war. Premiered in 1962, this setting of the Requiem mass, plus first world war poetry by Wilfred Owen, are as much an act of renewal and hope as an evocation of loss and destruction. In this staged performance, the combined forces of full choir, children’s chorus, cham-ber orchestra, symphony orchestra, organ and three solo vocalists are accompanied by a striking and dynamic visual element, set among cathedral stained glass and builders’ scaffolding, that hammers home Britten’s themes of pacifism and renewal.


Benjamin BrittenWar Requiem

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Rarely-heard US minimalist drone work by one of its most enigmatic figures. New York based composer La Monte Young has been active since his early associations with the Fluxus art movement, and has refused to compromise or fit in with musical or lifestyle conventions. Dating from 1962, The Four Dreams of China was a four part exploration of drones and overtones that inspired the Dream House’s foundation. An eight-piece trumpet group consisting of musicians with close asso-ciations to the composer will play The Second Dream from this series, along with a light-show designed by Marian Zazeela. Meditative and unsettling, it expresses both permanence and perpetual, microscopic change.

Led by Ben Niell and Marco Blaauw. Produced in collaboration with Marco Blaauw.

Kulturkirken JakobTime 21:00 Ticket 200,–/100,–

Marian ZazeelaThe Theatre of Eternal Music Brass Ensemble

Trumpets in Harmon Mutes:Ben NeillMarco BlaauwStephen BurnsChristine ChapmanNathan PlanteMatthew ConleyMarkus SchwindBob Koertshuis

La Monte YoungThe Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962) in a setting of Dream Light


In collaboration with Ulysses Network and the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Supported by Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.

An outdoor harp, a minimalist drum jam, and body-popping to Beethoven’s 9th are the main attractions at Ultima’s junior extrava-ganza. This year’s BUD event lets young people engage with some beautiful sound objects and reinterpret key works from the main concert programme, including STRÆNG, an installation involving Oslo’s biggest harp, a percussion workshop based on Terry Riley’s minimalist classic In C, and physical interpretations of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Plus: with a combination of live instru-ments, motion-triggered digital sound effects, live drawing and painting and a mass of surrealistic props, performance group Bea og de Andre (Bea and the Others) create a delightful cascade of ever changing tableaux and colourful imagery that hold their young audiences spellbound. Peter Baden and Knut Sævik is creating a brand new interactive audio visual installation. Bosses Bongoband brings their African rhythms, howling trumpets, bursting trombones, squeeking saxophones.

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Sentralen Time 12:00–16:00Ticket Free Entry

John Halvor Bjørnseth, Isak Anderssen and Sunniva Rødland STRÆNG Pinquins – Terry Riley’s In C (drum workshop)Kyrre Texnæs & POING – Beethoven’s 9th (movement & improvisation)Peter Baden and Knut SævikBea og de AndreBosses bongoband

Ultima Children’s Day

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Beethoven’s most ambitious symphony: an anthem of brotherhood and a cry of desperation. The final symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven, premiered in Vienna in 1824, is an iconic and essential work in western musical history. Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to Joy in the final movement has been taken up as a statement of universal brotherhood by nations and political organisations, including the EU, who adopted it as its official anthem. It is, therefore, one of the most contested pieces of music ever written, with rival and sometimes ideologically opposed institutions claiming it as their own. Beethoven’s revolu-tionary ideas and conflicted art are important perspectives on this year’s Ultima festival, drawing attention to the past in the present, the political implications of musical ideas and context.

Produced by Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1799! Following the Oslo Philharmonic’s rendi-tion of Beethoven’s 9th, Ultima takes it to the garage, strips it all down and recycles the parts in this informal electronic salon dedicated to remixing the maestro’s œuvre. Norway’s emperors of the live remix, Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, will provide their own reintepretations of the Beethoven soundworld, alongside Ost + Kjex, Universet (with Bård Torgersen & Kenneth Ishak) and Pieces of Juno.

Oslo KonserthusTime 19:00Ticket 470,–/100,–

Vasily Petrenko – conductorSarah Fox – sopranoTone Kummervold – mezzo sopranoDmitri Pittas – tenorCarsten Stabell – bass

Ludwig van BeethovenSymphony No. 9The Oslo Philharmonic

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Sentralen/ Marmorsalen Time 19:00 Ticket 100,–

Pieces of JunoJan Bang / Erik HonoréUniverset (with Bård Torg-ersen & Kenneth Ishak)Ost & Kjex

Beethoven Remix

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‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’ Samuel Beckett’s famous closing line from The Unnameable perfectly describes the mood of the last work completed by American composer Morton Feldman. Feldman’s delicate, sparse methods eventually transcended his early indeterminate work with the 1950s ‘New York School’ of John Cage, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff. The 75-minute Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello is a hymn to eternity, with its resignment to fate and luminous melancholy. Premiered two months before the composer’s death in 1987, it’s a beautifully austere swansong full of beguiling dissonances and the sense of a tide forever lapping at the shore. Norway’s outstanding and long time Ultima collaborator Cikada ensemble will apply their formidable skills to this landmark work of postwar American music.

Produced by Cikada.

The Oslo based Swedish violinist premieres the work of five young composers testing the limits of this most traditional of instruments. Marisol Jimenez amplifies a prepared violin in a piece inspired by the rituals of the pre-Columbian Wixárika tribe. A violin with gut strings and Baroque bow is required for Evan Johnson’s fragmentary and elusive piece. Jan Martin Smørdal places the soloist at the centre of eight loudspeakers to explore the relationship of the individual with the mass. Carola Bauckholt’s evocation of a natural glade includes sampled bird-song mimicked by the violin. Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri’s Solo for Motors and strings is a continuous stream of sound generated by the performer’s interactions with small electric devices.

Michael Acker – KlangregieJulius Holtz – Klangregie (Yuariya Vaicári)

Sentralen/ Marmorsalen Time 19:00 Ticket 200,–/100,–

Kenneth Karlsson – pianoOdd Hannisdal – violinBendik Foss – violaTorun Stavseng – cello

Morton Feldman Piano, Violin, Viola, CelloCikada

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Sentralen/ Forstanderskapssalen Time 17:00Ticket 100,–

Marianthi Papalexandri- Alexandri Solo for Motors and Strings (WP)Carola Bauckholt Doppelbelichtung for violin and electronics (WP)Evan Johnson Wolke über Bäumen for violin with gut strings and baroque bow (WP)Marisol Jímenez Yuaríya Valcári for violin, noise harp and live electronics (WP)Jan Martin Smørdal flock foam fume for violin and recordings of violin (WP)

Karin Hellqvist

In collaboration with EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR. Supported by Ulysses Network and the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, Swedish Arts Grants Council, Arts Council Norway, FONCA (National Fund for Cultute and the Arts Mexico). Composition commission by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri Solo for Motors and strings is funded by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

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The new cello concerto by Austrian Thomas Larcher (b.1963) is played by its dedicatee, Jean-Guihen Queyras. Circularity and com-plex rhythmic structures are a hallmark of the work. Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) is one of the last surviving composers whose deeply spiritual music is partly a reaction to life in the Soviet Union, a time when music was a matter of life and death. Sieben Worte (Seven Words, 1982) is scored for cello, ban-doneon and string orchestra and incorpo-rates quotes from Schütz’s Seven Last Words. In similar fashion, Ligeti’s Ramifications (1968) splits a 12-part string orchestra into two sections to play what the composer described as ‘mistuned music’.

Sentralen/ MarmorsalenTime 19:00Ticket 395,–/120,–

György Ligeti RamificationsJohann Christian Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade No. 6 in D major, KV 239 Serenata notturnaThomas Larcher Ourobouros for cello and orchestra (WP)Sofia Gubaidulina Sieben Worte

Per Christian Skalstad – conductorJean-Guihen Queyras – cello Geir Dragsvoll – bayan

The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

Kulturkirken Jakob Time 21:00Ticket 200,–/100,–Performed in Norwegian

Concept, direction, screen-play and composition: Maja Solveig Kjelstrup RatkjeMusic: Maja S. K. Ratkje / Trondheim Voices, Moon-light Shadow by Mike Old-field, Searching by Mia Marlen Berg, Bruremarsj fra Gudbrandsdalen (trad.) arranged by Øistein Som-merfeldt, Working on a building (trad.) and quotes.Trondheim Voices:Anita KaasbøllKari, Eskild Havenstrøm, Ingrid Lode, Torunn Sævik, Heidi Skjerve, Tone Åse, Sissel Vera Pet-tersen, Mia Marlen BergArtistic director for Trond-heim Voices: Siri GjæreSound: Asle KarstadLight design: Ingrid Schanke HøsøienLight: Oscar UdbyeProducer: Carl Martin Faurby

Private lives of professional singers brought out in the open. Since 2014 Maja S. K. Ratkje has been collaborating with avant-garde vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices on a work in progress called Ekkokammer (Echo Cham-ber). This has resulted in two versions to date. Ekkokammer 2.0 investigates what it means to be a singer and questions what it means to physically possess a voice and who has control over what it expresses. With texts based on the personal and subjective experiences of the individual sing-ers in Trondheim Voices, the piece highlights the choices that shape professional vocalists’ lives. Every word is taken from transcripts of interviews made with the singers in private.

Maja S. K. Ratkje Ekkokammer 2.0 Trondheim Voices

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Vortex Temporum (1994–96) by French spec-tralist Gerard Grisey generates a rippling effect and a sense of perpetual flow. This sextet, for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello, plus a piano with four notes adjusted by a quarter-tone, is seldom heard live. Belgian composer (and former piano tuner) Tim Mariën (1975) has long been a fan of Grisey’s work, and retains a lifelong fascination with unconventional tunings. His new commission, Where the Silence Breaks Its Back, acts as a kind of commentary on Vortex Temporum, utilising the microtonally tuned instrument plus an additional upright piano with a more extreme alternative tuning.


Gerard Grisey Vortex TemporumTim Mariën Where the Silence Breaks Its Back (WP)

Sanae Yoshida – piano Aliisa Neige Barrière – violin Bénédicte Royer – violaInga Byrkjeland – cello Helen Benson – fluteLauri Sallinen – clarinet Kai Grinde Myrann – conductor

Ensemble Temporum

Is tradition sacred or must it be assaulted in order to survive? Music is constantly chal-lenging itself in a dialogue with its own past. Rebooting the traditions of the Norwegian Korps (military brass bands), two of the nation’s most prestigious wind ensembles will be playing contemporary commissions and free improvisations during Ultima. In this talk representatives from the Sjøforsvarets musikkorps (Kate Auge stad) and Det Norske Blåseensemble (Geir Lysne) tell how they are supplementing military marches with avant garde composition and open-ended jazz.

In collaboration with Fritt Ord and Norwegian Society of Composers.

Sentralen/GymsalenTime 14:00Ticket Free Entry

Peter TornquistKate AugestadGeir LysneTorgny Amdam (moderator)


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Marching bands trace their origins back to the military. This music, with its roots in war, now mainly appears on special occasions and celebrations. This unique event show-cases two of Norway’s finest wind bands reinventing themselves by renewing and sub-verting their own traditions. Bergen’s Sjøforsvarets Musikkorps play a new work by Øyvind Mæland and a Percus-sion Concerto by Erlend Skomsvoll, with Eirik Raude as soloist. In 2015 Det Norske Blåseensemble col-laborated with German jazz pianist Michael Wollny on a soundtrack to the silent film Nosferatu, at Ultima they will be reunited to perform a total free improvisation entitled Prélude À L’Après-midi Des Trolls. This anar-chic blow-out replaces the mythological ‘Faun’ of Debussy’s famous orchestral work with the ultimate Norwegian fantasy figure: the Troll.

In collaboration with Sjøforsvarets musikkorps and Det Norske Blåseensemble.

Universitetets aulaTime 18:00Ticket 200,–/100,–

Sjøforsvarets musikkorpsØyvind MælandVinaigre – for Wind Orchestra (WP)Erlend SkomsvollDsjåkåccåråckåIngar Bergby – conductorEirik Raude – percussion

Det Norske BlåseensemblePrélude à l'après-midi des Trolls (WP)Geir Lysne – musikal directorMichael Wollny – piano

Sjøforsvarets musikkorps andDet Norske Blåseensemble

Menstrual blood, vampires and goth memo-ries in this exclusive preview of Jenny Hval’s new album. Norwegian artist Jenny Hval’s previous work has been acclaimed internationally for its unflinching exploration of gender, sexu-ality and the female gaze. In Blood Bitch, a conceptual work released as her next album, she combines a fictionalized horror story with personal diaries of touring with her band, as well as revealing an obsession with the 1970s exploitation movies of cult director Jess Franco and recalling teenage memories of listening to goth and black metal. ‘It’s my most fictional and most personal album,’ says Hval. ‘An album of vampires, lunar cycles, sticky choruses, and the smell of warm leaves and winter.’ Much more than a rock show, Hval’s concerts are a dis-orienting, dreamlike sequence of sound, performance art and video.

Vulkan ArenaTime 21:00Ticket 200,–/100,–

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The Ulysses network project marks the launch of its second phase on 15 September 2016 with an open day hosted by the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. In addition to concerts and talks with Ulysses artists, the event includes a showcase of Ulysses activities and focus topics such as audience building, continued professional development for young composers and musicians as well as activities specially designed for young audiences. On behalf of all partners of the Ulysses network project, we welcome you to Ulysses Day at Ultima!

Full programme at ultima.no

Sentralen Time 10:00Ticket Free Entry

The ULYSSES network project is an European network for the promotion and support of young contemporary musical creation co-funded through the Creative Europe Program-me of the European Union.

Ulysses Day at Ultima

ULYSSES partners include IRCAM, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Aldeburgh Music, Divertimento Ensemble, Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor, Flagey, Fondation Royaumont, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, HfMT Hamburg/IKI/ OPUS XXI, impuls, Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt and Time of Music Festival.

In collaboration with the Ulysses Network and the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Supported by Sparebankstiftelsen DNB

This year’s Ultima Remake project spins off a pair of ‘modern classics’. Terry Riley’s In C (1964) and La Monte Young’s Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Step Down Transformer (1962) were composed at a historically tense moment, yet in themselves have a meditative and inward-seeking character. Ultima’s annual Remake is an educational project aimed at upper secondary pupils. Over four days, students from the Edvard Munch Upper Secondary School will study the historical background and structure of these two com-positions to make a new customised piece of music, and perform it on the final day. Ultima Remake 2016 is a collaboration between Edvard Munch Upper Secondary School, the Remake team, Magnus Bugge and Koka Nikoladze.

Edvard Munch VGS Time 11:30, 12:00 & 12:30Ticket Free Entry


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A chance to get lost in the glittering universe of Helmut Lachenmann. Lachenmann’s recent work for piano and soprano is typical of his incredible attentive-ness to microscopic variations in tone and timbre. Three separate texts drawn from the works of Nietzsche are stripped of their pathos and diction, and broken down into 18 wildly varied categories of phonetic sound. These noises are echoed by the piano part which incorporates a range of extended techniques and refined pedalling. As a complement to Lachenmann’s inten-sity, the duo of soprano Elizabeth Holmertz and Kenneth Karlsson have also chosen a selection of Lieder from the songbook of German Romantic composer Robert Schumann.


Helmut Lachenmann Got LostRobert Schumann Lieder

Elisabeth Holmertz and Kenneth Karlsson


In collaboration with the Ulysses Network and the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and Norwegian Society of Composers.

This panel investigates the past, present and future of avant garde sounds from the former Soviet Union and modern day Russia. Andrey Smirnov, lecturer at the Centre for Electroacoustic Music at Moscow State Conservatory, and the author of Sound In Z: Experiments In Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia (2013), gives a historical survey of alternative sound and music practices from the Soviet Union into present day Russia. Oslo-based artist Ignas Krunglevicius, who opens his Riot installation at Sentralen on the same day, was born in present-day Lithuania during the Soviet era. He will discuss his work and identity as an artist with connections to a nation that no longer exists. A contemporary view of music in Russia will come from representatives from Belgium’s Ensemble Nadar, who play a fascinating and enigmatic collaborative piece by four young Russian composers later the same evening.

Sentralen/ VinterhagenTime 15:00Ticket Free Entry

Andrey SmirnovIgnas Krunglevicius Marina PoleukhinaRebecca DiependaeleHeloisa Amaral (moderator)


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Experience sounds from a huge ever-growing pulsating brain. Consciousness spreads to fill the space available, believes the Lithuanian-born, Oslo based artist Ignas Krunglevicius. In this installation/performance, Krunglevicius and musicians of Ensemble Neon will be per-forming inside a giant plastic bubble and with their acoustic instruments learn to ‘speak’ through the membrane via the vibra-tions of the instruments sound. Krunglevicius describes the room as a kind of womb, where a new consciousness will be born.

Sentralen/HvelvetTime 17:00Ticket Free Entry

Installation opening and concert

The installation is open from 15–17 September.Part of Oslo Cultural night 16 September.

Ensemble neoNKarin Hellqvist – violinInga Byrkjeland – celloHeloisa Amaral – pianoSilje Aker Johnsen – sopranoIda Kristine Zimmermann Olsen – saxofonKristine Tjøgersen – clarinetYumi Murakami – fluteSolmund Nystabakk – guitarAne Marthe Sørlien Holen – percussion

Ignas KrungleviciusRiot (w ��)


In collaboration with the Oslo Philharmonic.Supported by Arts Council Norway.

Premiere of a radical new piano concerto celebrating the soloist as heroic revolutionary. In the past, the piano concerto has often been themed around the individual soloist and his or her relation to the masses (the orchestra). Trond Reinholdtsen’s new piano concerto – entitled Theory Of the Subject – challenges this structure in the context of an era in which, in the composer’s view, ‘the rise of individualism grants everyone the status of a soloist, and the collective has become a utopia’. The soloist’s role fluctuates between Maoist activism, depressive exhaustion (seen in a live video feed from the performer’s dressing room), resignation in the face of new tech-nologies (represented by a player- piano that surpasses the soloist in mechanical virtuosity), and the total isolation from the public (retreating into a kind of shelter underneath the piano).

Sentralen/ Marmorsalen Time 19:00Ticket 200,–/100,–

Trond Reinholdtsen Theory of the Subject (WP)The Oslo PhilharmonicCathrine Winnes – conductorEllen Ugelvik – piano

Trond Reinholdtsen with The Oslo Philharmonic (w ��)


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The Islamist militant terror group Al-Faran kidnapped and executed Norwegian actor Hans Christian Ostrø in the Kashmir in 1995, after he had travelled to India to learn traditional Kathakali dance. But It Has Not Ended, a new collaboration between Oslo based choreographer Sudesh Adhana and composer and pianist Jon Balke, is inspired by this brutal incident. Exploring art as a weapon against fear and terrorism, the piece includes the voices of key players involved in the Ostrø case.

In collaboration with Riksscenen.

Riksscenen Time 20:00Ticket 200,–/150,–

Sudesh Adhana – danceJon Balke – keyboards, electronicsBalakrishnan Nair Jagadeesan – dance

Sudesh Adhana / Jon BalkeBut It Has Not Ended (w ��)


In collaboration with Ulysses Network and the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.Produced in collaboration with Concertgebouw Bruges.

Four Russian composers, one extraordinary life celebrated. A new generation of Russian artists is emerging into the light, and the Belgium based group Ensemble Nadar present a pro-gramme by a collective of four of the coun-try’s young composers. All four have collab-orated on a joint project telling the life story of the mysterious Lesaserma Pokhunakis (1944–2008). This overlooked figure pops up all over Cold War Europe: a baker’s wife who escaping the Greek junta in 1967, wrote 50 000 pages of scientific research and a magnum opus entitled Bourozyom (The Brown Soil). The four composers use the narrative of her life as a starting point to make a remarkable, unsettling and fascinat-ing performance in which nothing is what it seems.

Kulturkirken Jakob Time 21:00Ticket 200,–/100,–

Sergey Khismatov N-MusikAlexander Khubeev The TruthAlex Nadzharov The literacy campaign: science for peopleMarina Poleukhina Forest of electrical Magnolias

Ensemble Nadar:Marieke Berendsen – violin, scenographyToon Callier – el. & bass guitarRebecca Diependaele – general managerKatrien Gaelens – fluteYves Goemaere – percussionWannes Gonnissen – soundPieter Matthynssens – cello, artistic directorElisa Medinilla – piano, keyboard, cameraThomas Moore – productionStefan Prins – artistic director

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All borders are open as Scandinavian folk meets a world of sound from every compass point. Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli works across folk, improvisation and contemporary classical genres, and campaigns tirelessly to create a modern identity for his instrument. Blending the accordion with the richly reso-nant sounds of the Swedish nyckelharpa, Grenseskogen (The Border Woods) picks up resonances and overtones from Nordic folk musics and traces their connections with Indian and Arabic scales. ‘Hopefully this work can give some new perspectives on what folk music can be today,’ comments Haltli, ‘from a point of view where you can see backwards and forwards, to the east and to the west.’

Produced by Riksscenen.

Riksscenen Time 22:00Ticket 180,–/120,–

Frode Haltli – accordion Emilia Amper – harpHåkon Stene – percussion Eirik Raude – percussion

Frode HaltliGrenseskogen


As a part of Oslo kulturnatt you can experi-ence the Sound Installation Lullaby Oslo where people from different cultures who all live in Oslo will be singing lullabies in their mother tongue. The lullabies are mixed with sound recordings of the Oslo night, and together the voices and night sounds makes a lullaby for Oslo.

In collaboration with Notam and Norwegian Society of Composers. Thanks to Jamila Lahiyane and Mojgan Saharkhiz at Åpen Barnehage, Grønland.

Sentralen/Gymsalen Time 15:00Ticket Free Entry

The installation will be open from 15–23 PM as a part of Oslo kulturnatt. Free entrance.

As a part of the opening of the installation, there will be a concert with singer Supriya Nagarajan, norwegian folk singer Ingebjørg Lognvik Reinholdt and Sound Artist Duncan Chapman.


ultima academySupriya NagarajanLullaby Oslo 2016 (w ��)

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The piano gets the absurdist treatment. Piano Hero is a musical one-man show for MIDI keyboard, live electronics, live-video and grand piano by Belgian com-poser Stefan Prins, in which the romantic piano virtuoso is placed into a technological and highly mediated 21th century palace of mirrors in which the piano is deconstructed and then put together differently. A by times Tati-esque interaction emerges between the physical hero on stage and his digitally splintered acoustic and visual avatars. Stephane Ginsburgh performs.

In collaboration with Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. Produced in collaboration with de Bijloke, Gent and ICST Zürich.

Sentralen/ Forstanderskapssalen Time 18:00Ticket 200,–/100,–

Stephane Ginsburgh – piano Stefan Prins, Florian Bogner (ICST Zürich) – electronics

Stefan PrinsPiano Hero

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Ultima Vez revive their highly praised phan-tasmagoria of energetic music and movement. Vigorous, splenetic and full of visual poetry, In Spite of Wishing and Wanting created a sensation when Belgian dance company Ultima Vez premiered it in 1999. Created by Ultima Vez’s Wim Vandekeybus, this seamless symbiosis between dance, the-atre and film features an all-male cast in an exploration of fear, self-transformation and the magic of sleep. The performance includes a vibrant soundtrack by Talking Heads’ David Byrne and a film, The Last Words, based on short stories by Julio Cor-tazar and Paul Bowles. ‘Rough, wild, naive, playful and childlike – a kind of primal long-ing in a wood populated by men’, is how Vanderkeybus describes this new revival of the piece featuring new dancers and mem-bers of the original production.

Produced by Dansens Hus.

Dansens HusTime 19:00Ticket 380,–/170,–

Also showing: 17/9 and 18/9

Wim Vandekeybus – direction, choreography, scenography David Byrne – original music and sound

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Karlheinz Stockhausen’s (1928–2007) mon-umental Sternklang (Star Sound) was com-posed in 1971. Described as ‘park music for five groups’ and lasting up to three hours, Sternklang is performed at five separate ‘stations’ around the Ekeberg Sculpture Park in eastern Oslo. The public can move freely, ensuring a multitude of possible experiences as the work unfolds. In one of Stockhausen’s most cosmically immersive compositions, a 21-strong chorus, percussion and Stockhaus-en’s electronics are co-ordinated by ‘sound runners’ carrying messages between each location. A spectacular and unforgettable experience in Oslo’s autumnal twilight.Bring your open mind and warm clothes.

In collaboration with Norwegian Academy of Music, Ekeberg Park and Notam.

EkebergparkenTime 20:00Ticket Free Entry

The project is a part of Oslo Cultural night.

Nordic Voices with Andreas FischerKjell Tore InnervikStudents from Norwegian Academy of Music

Nordic Voices:Tone Braaten – sopranoIngrid Hanken – soprano Ebba Rydh – mezzosopranoPer Kristian Amundrød – tenorFrank Havrøy – baritoneRolf Magne Asser – bass

Karlheinz StockhausenSternklang

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A feast of psychedelic drones from Nils Økland’s folk/post-rock hybrid trio. Fusing Nordic folk overtones with pulsing, psychedelic post-rock, Lumen Drones are one of Norway’s most fascinating live acts at the moment. This trio, consisting of Hardanger fiddle virtuoso Nils Økland plus two mem-bers of the band Low Frequency In Stereo, draw on a multitude of influences from experimental rock, jazz, modal folk and ambient music. At this concert at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Lumen Drones will present new material showing a slightly noisier but still fragile side of the group, as well as improvisations on themes from their debut album Lumen Drones (ECM, 2015).

Produced by Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

Henie Onstad KunstsenterTime 13:00Ticket 200,–/100,–

Nils Økland – Hardanger fiddlePer Steinar Lie – guitarØrjan Haaland – drums

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Two works that unlock the hidden meanings buried in everyday sounds. Rolf Wallin’s fascination with bestiaries was expressed in his Urban Bestiary (2008). Under City Skin is based on the same idea and is a violin version of a viola concerto written in 2009. The work asks whether our modern day surroundings and objects still unconsciously hold hidden, counter-intuitive meanings for today’s society. The rhythms and shifting acoustic patterns of train travel were loaded with meanings for American minimalist pioneer Steve Reich. His Different Trains (1988) is a dynamic jour-ney, narrated by cut-up voices on tape, from the coast-to-coast railroads of the USA (which Reich took frequently as a boy, visit-ing his separated parents) to the Nazi death trains conveying Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz.

Sentralen / MarmorsalenTime 16:00Ticket 200,–/100,–

Rolf Wallin Under City Skin (WP) Steve Reich Different Trains

Oslo CamerataDet Norske SolistkorØyvind Bjorå – artistic directorPeter Herresthal – violin

Arne Nordheim Composer’s Prize 2016

Oslo CamerataDet Norske Solistkor

Three composition students at the Norwe-gian Academy of Music (NMH) and three opera students at the Norwegian National Academy of Opera (at KHiO) learn to col-laborate on three premieres Mira Bartov and Henrik Hellstenius’s pilot project is intended to give students an over-view of the entire artistic process. Three composition students meet three trainee opera singers to cross each other’s bounda-ries and participate in both the preparatory stages and the performance itself. Each pair – singer and composer – has been tasked with staging a performance. The perfor-mances are a part of a longer Symposium.

Produced by NMH and KHiO. In collaboration with Norwegian Society of Composers.

Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO)Time 17:00Ticket Free Entry

In addition to the concert there will be a symposium at 17:00, examining the work-ing process.16:00 Introduction, 17:00 Triologen performances, 18:00 Discussion

From London’s Guildhall School of Drama: Dr Julian Philips, Head of Composition, Stephen Plaice, Professor of Creative Writing, Martin Lloyd-Evans, Resident Producer. Henrik Hellstenius, Professor of Composition at NMH, Mira Bartov, Professor of performance in musical drama, KHiO, participating students. Moderators: Erik Dæhlin and Njål Sparbo.

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Tony Conrad, who died in April 2016, was America’s great lost minimalist. A violinist and improvisor, he was a member of Terry Riley and La Monte Young’s Theatre of Eternal Music in mid-60s New York, as well as composing his own drone music and making experimental ‘structural films’. In association with Oslo’s ANX gallery, Ultima Academy pays tribute to Tony Conrad, as an artist, musician, educator and inspirational figure. Taking part will be Andrew Lampert, archivist and curator at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Norwegian noise musician Lasse Marhaug will speak about his music and personality as well as screening a short documentary of Conrad’s visit to Oslo in 2012. Professor Ina Blom, author of The Autobiography of Video: The Life and Times of a Memory Technology (2016), will discuss his experimental film.

In collaboration with ANX, DNEK and Norwegian Society of Composers.

KulturhusetTime 18:00Ticket Free Entry

Ina BlomAndrew LampertLasse Marhaug

Tony Conrad Tribute at Atelier Nord ANX Atelier Nord present a series of concerts honouring artist, musician, filmmaker and experimentalist Tony Conrad (1940–2016).

7 September: C. Spencer Yeh One Hour for Tony (with Violin and Voice)10 September: Lasse Marhaug & Jon Wesseltoft Outside of Mount Meru12 September: Kari Rønnekleiv and friends 14 September: Andrew Lampert and Greg Pope Perfect Makes Practice

All concerts start at 19:00 Free entrance, at Atelier Nord ANX, Olaf Ryes plass 2.More info: ateliernord.no

ultima academyTony Conrad Slapping Pythagoras


Minimalist flagship piece celebrates repetition and the spirit of communal music making. We are proud and happy to welcome a legend of modern music, in his eightieth year, to Ultima’s finale. In this enjoyable and accessible programme of contemporary music, Terry Riley and his son Gyan Riley will perform as a duo, and KORK, The Nor-wegian Radio Orchestra, will perform Riley’s legendary In C. In C was composed in 1964 for an indefi-nite number of performers and no set dura-tion. The work consists of 53 short, num-bered musical phrases where each phrase may be repeated an arbitrary number of times. Each musician decides which phrase they play. With its throbbing drive and repetitive tonality, it has become one of the best loved and most popular contemporary music pieces, interpreted by everyone from Bang On A Can to Damon Albarn & Africa Express and Adrian Utley (Portishead).

In collaboration with KORK and nyMusikk

Rockefeller Music HallTime 20:00Ticket 350,–/250,–

Terry Riley In C

Terry Riley – synthesizersGyan Riley – guitarKORKMagnus Loddgård – conductorTerry Riley and Gyan Riley (duo)

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