Bandrom is a project by Øyvind Torvund. It is often a combination of various concerts played simultanously, the rhythm section might be found in a car next to the ensemble playing the melody on the street. Or you might have to go into a room to experience a concert played for one person at the time.
In another room you will find musicians learning a piece tone for tone, noise for noise, by ear.
A guitarist with a deer mask plays outside, and his beat blends with the rest of the ensemble.
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Previous versions:
1. Bandrom: A dog named garage, Oslo camber Music Festival August 23, 2003, with Ingar Zach and Kjell Tore Innervik: percussion, Håkon Thelin and Per Zanussi: doublebass, Musicians from Oslo Sinfonietta.************************************
2. Bandrom: Hilds Romstasjon, February 2004, Oslo: With Oslo Sinfonietta, Ingar Zach, *********************************************_____________________________
3. Bandrom: Happy days, @ the Happy days sound festival Oslo, April 2005: with Frode Haltli, Ole Henrik Moe, Musicians from Oslo Sinfonietta: Kjell Tore Innervik: percussion,Lotte Gordon: flute
Terje Bb Lerstad: clarinet, Bjarne Sakshaug: synth, Jan Fredrik Christiansen: trumpet, Tone Reichelt: horn, Kari Rønnekleiv: hardanger fiddle
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Ch. Wasif Iqbal: driver and car stylist, Thomas Monsen: driver
Lise Herland: baker, Rosepainters: Marita Borge Jensen and Randi Bjørgeseter.
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4. Bandrom: Bethnal Green, London, April 2007: With Plus Minus ensemble, Kjell Tore Innervik, Steve Beresford, Håkon Stene, Tim Parkinson, Jennifer Allum, Adam De la Cour, Joakim Munker & Dom Lash.
Visual Artists: Marc Bell, Penny Sadubin, Tim Rushby-Smith, Tanya Mlcek & Galen Wainwright.
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5. Bandrom, Norrköping, August 2007:
with Anna Lindal, Håkon Stene, Anders Førisdal, Lene Grenager, Karin Hellqvist. Masks by Erik Tidemann
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6. Bandrom Haus, Berlin, February 2009:
with Anna Lindal, ensemble Zwischentöne, Håkon Stene, Anders Førisdal and Yorgos Sapountzis.
Influences
Charles Ives, Harry Partch, Iannis Xenakis, Henry Flynt, Julio Estrada, Pierre Huyghe, Otomo Yoshihide, Trond Reinholdtsen, Conlon Nancarrow, Henry Cowell, Jean-Philppe Rameau, Helmut Lachenmann, Michael Finnissy, Richard Barrett, Joanna Bailie, Matthew Shlomowitz, Sergej Newski, Thomas Hirschhorn, Enno Poppe, Peter Ablinger, Emil Bernhardt, Mauricio Kagel, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, Åke Hodell, James Dillon, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, William Russo, John Lurie, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giacinto Scelsi, Richard Brautigan, Ragnar Hovland, Franco Donatoni, Skip James
firstly, I was at bethnal green when you were! amazing! i absolutely love what you are doing, really really good stuff, which is why I added you as I thought you might be interested in what I am doing. Please feel free to get stuck in with my project!
Please check out the profile and let me know your thoughts! I really hope you can get involved, anywhere you are in the world, just do one event if you wish, you don't have to do all six.
So far, there will be hundreds of simultaneous performances of six_events across the world.
I have now put quotations on the profile from myself and others…..there are definitely mixed views about this!
if you would like me to send you a reminder nearer the time about this then just send a blank email to six_events@yahoo.co.uk
Great you have a MySpace page for your project! Now I can see all those crazy videos of yours whenever I feel like it, and even add them, that's even more brilliant.
Hope you two are doing terrific!
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