Hild Sofie Tafjord,
performer and composer(
born Jan.4th 1974 in Ålesund, Norway),
plays frenchorn, electronics, and various
instruments,
She comes from the island Sula on the west-coast of Norway.
She finished her studies in jazz and
improvised music at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo 2001. Frenchorn is her main instrument.
She has made music for
dance, film, theater, installations/ sculptures, done
performances, workshops and site specific concerts.
She has played concerts, toured and
worked with musicians and artists in Europe, Amerika, Canada
and Asia.
She is released at
a.o. Rune Grammofon,
Asphodel, ECM, Universal, Moserobie, Jazzland, Important Records, Psychform
Records, Gameboy Records, OHM records
Her range as a performer spans from
electronic noise to acoustic horn. She plays mostly free improvised music, but
is also working as an electronic music composer.
Since 1995 she has
been exploring unusual playing techniques to extend the language
of the horn and to find the sonic possibilities of this specific instrument.
The use of electronics are a natural extension in
search of other sounds and in making multilayered music. She also uses other
instruments such as metal objects, pan pipe, recorders, mbira,
crap/contact microphones etc.
Her music is consisting of acoustic and
electronic sound-sources, analogue and digital electronics, processed
sounds and concrete sounds.
Solo project:
Tafjord has done several solo concerts the
past years an will release her first solo album KAMA at Picadisc(Lasse Marhaug) in fall 2007
Her main groups
SPUNK (Tafjord/ Maja Ratkje/ Lene
Grenager/Kristin Andersen)www.spunkmusic.com
Agrare (Tafjord/Lotta Melin/Maja Ratkje)
Kvartett Lemur (Tafjord/Lene
Grenager/Michael Duch, Bjørnar Habbestad)
Slinger( Tafjord/Lene Grenager/Lisa
Dillan)
Fe-mail (Tafjord/Maja
Ratkje)www.femailmusic.com
Other important collaborations is metal
project TRINACRIA( Fe-mail and Enslaved), Unni Løvlid Ensemble,
Crime Time Orchestra, and Norwegian Noise Orchestra.
She also plays/has played with people like:
Wolf Eyes, Campbell Kneale,
Matmos, Ikue Mori, Otomo Yoshihide, Fred Frith new perspectives ensemble,Zeena
Parkins, Zu, Evan Parker,
Gino Robair, Rodrey Davis,
Per Henrik Wallin, Pekka Kuusisto, Sten Sandell, Mike Svoboda, Jaap Blunk, Manheim, Håkon Kornstad, Lasse Marhaug, Sten Ove Toft, Paal Nilssen
Love, Ingebrigt H.Flaten, Kjetil Møster, Mats Gustavson, POING, SISU, Wibutee,
Anders Hana, Morten Johan
Olsen, Per Zanussi, Thomas Strønen,
Alog, Kim Hiortøy,
Scull Defects, Food for Quartet, No Spagetti Edition,
Bjørnar Andresen,Trygve
Seim Orchestra, Beadybelle,
Frode Gjerstad, Ingar Zack,
Ivar Grydland,Tonny Kluften, Håvard Wiik, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Magnus Broo,Liselott Norelius, Lindha Kallerdal, Jacob Friis, Amit Zehn,
Søren Runolf, Jonas Kullhammer, Johan Berthling,
Christian Wallumrød, Petter
Wettre, Bugge Wesseltoft, Ståle Storløkken, Stian Carstensen, Jarle Vespestad, Jon Eberson, Bernt Rosengren,Torgim Sollid, Vidar Johansen,Calle
Neuman, Jon Klette, Element
Extended, Geng, Gisle
Johansen, The Margarets, Number7Deli, Andreas Meland, Aslak Hartberg,
Morten Joakim Vatn, Andreas Bye, Kåre Nymark, Lars Andreas Haug, Helge Lien, Kathrine Nyheim, Knut Aalefjær,
Stein Erik Tafjord, Runar Tafjord, Karl Seglem, Bergmund Skaaslien, Jon halvor Bjørnset, Nils Økland, Fuzzy Logic, Steve Reid, m.fl
Other artists Tahord
has collaborated with:
Per Inge Bjørlo (artist NO),Cecilie
Løveid (writer, NO), Øyvind
Berg (writer, NO), Karl Hansen(artist,NO), DansDesign(coreographers,NO), Odd
Johan Fritzøe(coreographerNO),
Maja Delak (dancer,Slovenia), Kathy Hinde(visual
artist, England), Setsuko Watanabe (video,Japan), Masa Tanaka (video, Japan), Peter Segerstrom(
interface design, USA), Brian O Reilly (video, USA), Kenneth Varpe, (video, NO) Peter Pajhel(video,NO), Peter Opsvik
(furniture designer NO), Plinio Bachman (dramaturg, Sveits), Silje Breivik (actor, NO), Andrine Sæther (actor, NO),
Robert Skjærstad (actor,, NO), Snorre Hvamen (actor,, NO), Lisa
Lie (writer/actor,,NO), Ivar
Orvedal(poet, NO), Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen(poet,NO), Torkild Sandsund (director, NO),
Ingrid Fortun (director, NO), Siw
Merete Michalsen (director, NO)
She has attended festivals/consert series like:
Banlieue Bleue (France)Vancouver Jazzfestival
(Canada), Huddersfield New Music
Festival(England),Victoriaville (Canada), Roma Europa
festival, (Italy),Berliner Festspiele/Maerzmusik
(Germany), Printemps de septembre
a Toulouse (France),No Fun Fest (New York, USA), Venice Art Biennale (Italia),
SKIF8 (St.Petersburg, Russland),
Femmes (Hasselt,Belgium), Miro
museet i Barcelona (Spain),
ICA (London, England), Transart (Italy), Wexner Center of the Arts (Colombus,
USA), Klara (Brussel,Belgium),
Noise Fest (Seattle, USA), Steiricher Herbst (Austria), Prague Biennale (Tchec),
Fundation Serralves (Porto,Portugal), Fertiliser(London),
Avanto (Finland), Bad Bonn Kilbi
(Switzerland), GAS (Sweeden), Mesto
Zensk (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Konfrontationen
(Nickelsdorf), Music Unlimited (Wels, Østerrike), Musikprotokoll
(Graz), Taktlos (Zürich og
Basel), MusikTriennale Köln, Klangwald
(Riga), NewMusicNewMedia Festival (Edinburgh, Skottland), ISME(Canada), New Perspectives(Vesterås,Sverige), Stockolm
New Music (Sverige), Gøteborgskalaset
(Sverige), Kalv (Sverige), GAS (Sverige)
Norwegian festivals: Ultima,
Kongsberg Jazzfestival, Nattjazz
i Bergen, Maijazz,
Trondheim jazzfestival, Olavsfestdagene,
Safe as Milk, All Ears, Vossajazz, Coda, Musikk Under Oslo, UNM, Sandvika storbandfestival, ISFiT, Øya festivalen,
Teaching:
Tafjord is doing project based teaching
in improvisation and composing, as well as giving lessons in playing frenchorn. She has worked as a teacher in kindergarden, primary school, high school and with
music/art academy students.
DISCOGRAPHY:
-»Northern Stains», Fe.mail, Carlos Giffoni, 2006,
Important Records
-«Blixtertoad»,
fe-mail,2006, Asphodel
-«woman take back the noise»
Fe-mail ,compil., 2006
-«En aldeles forferdelig
sykdom»SPUNK, 2005, Rune Grammofon
-«volouptuous
vultures» Fe-mail, 2005, Psychform Records
-«closer» Beadybelle,2005,Jazzland rec.
-«Call Me», 2004, by RRR,Fe-mail and friends, RRR records
-«Syklubb
fra Hælvete»Fe-Mail,2004 Important Records
-«Mandelstam» Per Henrik
Wallin and his gang,2004,Moserobie
-«All Men Are Pigs» Fe-mail/lasse Marhaug,2004, Gameboy Records
-«Call Me»Fe-mail and friends,2004, RRRrecords
-«Nor Noise» DVD/CD, various,2004, OHM records/Pastiche Films
-«Dissolution Tapes»various,2004,zeromoon
-«Tender love is a
bitch»Norwegian noise orchestra,2003,TIBProd
-«cewbeagappic»
Beadybelle,2003,Jazzland rec.
-«Money will ruin everything»
various,2003, Rune Grammofon
-«Safe as Milk 05», Fe-mail/Kjetil Møster, 2003,Safe as Milk records/Melektronikk
-«SOUN»,SPUNK,
Fe-mail,various, 20003,Gameboy records
-«The Electric Leak-The North of
it»Fe.mail,various,2003, the nordic
pavillion exhibition
-«Syklubb fra Hælvete»
vinyl,Fe-Mail, 2002,Tv5
-«Fjord Focus» 2002, SPUNK,copilation, released on The
Wire
-«Tempo!» 10 cd SPUNK,
compilation, Cappelen
-«øverste toppen på en
blåmalt flaggstang»SPUNK,2002, Rune Grammofon
-«What kept you» The
Margarets,2002, Universal/Mercury
-«Avantometric
Attachements» fe-mail,
various,2002,Avanto
-«filtered through
friends»SPUNK,2001,Rune Grammofon
-«home» Beadybelle,2001,Jazzland rec.
-«Alain Delon/Rubber
Rubbish» The Margarets,2001, Playground Music Scandinavia
-«Different Rivers» Trygve Seim Orchestra, 2000 ECM
-«Det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke
er en støvsuger» SPUNK,1999, Rune Grammofon
-»Gi meg en grunn til å
være kvinne» dokumentarfilm, utstilling, SPUNK, vist på NRK
2002