nyMusikk podcast

Joiker and guitarist Viktor Bomstad discusses his practices with joik in experimental contexts, including his use of Sámi archival materials, joik and improvisation, his works Sámi Noise and Mosku, and more.

By: Jennifer Torrence
With: Viktor Bomstad

Sound: excerpts from Sámi Noise and Djevelens Folk by Viktor Bomstad, and Spiritual Community by Sex Magick Wizards. Used with permission from the artists.

Photo: Erik Brandsborg (photo) and Viktor Bomstad (collage)

Guitarist and researcher Kobe van Cauwenberghe discusses the life and music of Anthony Braxton, with a particular focus on the work Ghost Trance Music, and the unique realization created by Ictus Ensemble in collaboration with Rosas Dance Company.

By: Jennifer Torrence
With: Kobe van Cauwenberghe

Sound: Ghost Trance Music, performed by Ghost Trance Septet and released on el NEGOCITO Records. Used with permission from the artists.

Photo: From Ghost Trance Music, Composition No. 356.

Henrik Marstal discusses the work and life of Danish electronic music pioneer Else Marie Pade, who would have turned 100 this year.

By: Jennifer Torrence
With: Henrik Marstal

Sound: Symphonie Magnetophonique (1958) and Face It (1970), by Else Marie Pade, used with permission from Edition S.

Composer, intermedia artist, and performer Marko Ciciliani discusses his work Why Frets?, transmedial storytelling, and music in the expanded field.

By: Jennifer Torrence

Featuring: Marko Ciciliani

Sound: Why Frets?, used with permission from the artist.
Image: Marko Ciciliani: Why Frets? - Tombstone

Composer and musician Luis Fernando Amaya discusses the possibility of "composing to connect with the more-than-human", including to nature, objects, and others.

By: Jennifer Torrence
With: Luis Fernando Amaya

Sound: Luis Fernando Amaya (Cortahojas, available on Bandcamp.)

Three portraits of three artists who work with instrument building and/or the relationship between the musician and instrument to make experimental music: Ragnhild May, Guoste Tamulynaite and Jo David Meyer Lysne.

By: Jennifer Torrence
Featuring: Ragnhild May, Guoste Tamulynaite and Jo David Meyer Lysne

Sound: All sound used with permission from the artists.

Photo: Barbara Katzin

Fredrik Rasten discusses his work Six Moving Guitars, and his interest in collectivity, just intonation, repetition, and "being with sound".

Hosted by: Jennifer Torrence
Featuring: Fredrik Rasten

Sound: Six Moving Guitars and Lineaments (by Rasten, released on SOFA)

Lene Grenager discusses her series of compositions titled reconstruction, and her interest in the embroidered scores, the sound of machines, and physicality.

Hosted by: Jennifer Torrence
Featuring: Lene Grenager

Sound: Reconstruction II and excerpts from Mixed Handedness, released on +3dB Records)

Composer Martin Hirsti-Kvam is interested in the listener's perspective and the use of technology in creating a listening situation.

Produced by nyMusikk and hosted by Jennifer Torrence. Recordings: Martin Hirsti-Kvam: Through Imaginary Landscapes (2021), with Ensemble Adapter, Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen and Jennifer Torrence at Darmstadt Summer Courses 06.08.2021.

Hosted by Jennifer Torrence. Featuring composer and musicologist Luciano Chessa and artistic director Bjørnar Habbestad in nyMusikk. Recordings: Macchina Lirica (1925), by F.T. Marinetti, performed by Luciano Chessa, and Music for The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners & Electronics (2023) by Gerard Lebik and Alexandra Słyz, performed in Sokolowsko, Poland, august 2023.