Someone has bought up my domain Child Of Klang.com !

I would like to apologise to anyone who has tried to access my site www.childofklang.com lately as it has been bought, without my knowledge, by someone from the Netherlands. It is very odd and I don´t understand how WordPress could let this happen without a serious warning. I am sure the new owner is great and I am trying to get my domain back, but until this issues is sorted I will possibly move this site to ChildofKlang.no or similar.  I will get back to you regarding this! Best for now from Child Of Klang, the “real” COK.

NEWS!

SOUNDINGS 2 – NORDIC SOUND ART GRADUATE SHOW
28/04/2012 – 03/06/2012

I am completing the preparations for my installation “Soundscape Røst- The Listening Lounge” as we speak.

The art work for the lounge is printed out, and the vinyl release to be presented, “Soundscape Røst-Species and spaces Vol I”, is just getting sent to me. The pressing is done by Record Industry in the Netherlands, on 180 gr vinyl. The technical setup of the listening lounge is getting very very exciting. I cannot reveal much more at this moment, but I will post more detailed news this weekend as well as samples of the artwork. It is looking fantastic this much I can say, partly thanks to Lise Blomseth, Jason Rosenberg, and the late Theodor Kittelsen, one of my favourite Norwegian artist of all time.  I have been permitted to use this drawings from the Røst archipelago done in the 1880´s.

The opening is on Friday the 27th of April!

Other good news is that I am mounting the sound sculpture Play Kittiwake this week, which is taking part in the travelling sound exhibition “Horizonic-Unfolding Space Through Sound Art“, curated by ArtNord. The opening vil be on the 19th of May at the LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerdi (Iceland), 19 May – 30 June 2012, taking part of Reykjavik Arts Festival, and later travel on to - Ystads konstmuseum (Sweden), 8 September – 21 October 2012, and also to Ecole supérieure d’arts & médias de Caen/Cherbourg (France), 15 November – 22 December 2012, part of Les Boréales Festival.

I will post some documentation this weekend. The soundsculpture I am submitting ” Play Kittiwake” is simultaneously a sculpture and an instrument. It will let you playfully interact with the sounds of the Kittiwake; – a beautiful small gull, listed as critically threathned on the Norwegian red list.

Finally my work as a soundscape composer for the documentary with the working title “Freemen”, is not completed, but I we are finalizing the most important part this coming weekend in Copenhagen.

The relaseparty for “Soundscape Røst -Spaces and species Vol I, will take place at Blitz in Oslo on Saturday 9th Of June in collaboration with Konsertforeninga. The line up will include Child Of Klang special Drone Quartet, Svarte Greiner, Bisosphere, Maja Ratkje and much more!

That´s it for now!

A big thanks super to TEKS and Soundscape Studios in Trondheim for their support of my projects !
And big thanks to my colleagues and collaborators Peter Ringset, Lise Blomseth, Tone Emblemsvåg,  Monica Svorstøl, Jasmin Hurst and to my peers at the academy in Trondheim.

The first release in the Sounscape Røst series!

Arriving on the 11th of June on Leynar Recordings:

 

Soundings 2: Nordic Sound Art graduation show, opening on the 28th Of April 2012!

At the museum of contemporary art in Roskilde, Denmark:

http://samtidskunst.dk/en/view/objekt/?tabel=udstillinger&id=281

I will present the installation: Pelagic Magic – The Listening Lounge.

I will also do a performance on opening day plus the following week.
One part of the installation is the release of the first album from the Soundscape Røst project, on LeynarRecordings.

Soundscape Røst : Spaces and Species Vol I
Fieldrecordings from the Røst archipelago, Nordland, Norway 2010-2o11

The record will be pressed by Record Industry on 180 g double vinyl, with a gatefold sleave. The cover will have original artwork by the fantastic Norwegian artist Theodor S. Kittelsen and my friend and collaborator Jason Rosenberg.

I am very happy about it ! It feels like I am giving birth to my first child.
Here is a prewiev of a Kittelsen print that will feature on the LP cover:

Fuglefellene på Røst av Theodor Kittelsen, tegnet i 1880 åra.

Soundmemories # 1: Lisa driving her Barracuda across the Golden Gate Bridge

# 15, Soundscape Røst, the sound christmas calender

# 15

My first field recording trip to Røst came about in the early spring of 2010. I took a 3-4 hour long ferry journey from Moskenes in Lofoten to Røst. I arrived late Sunday evening on the 28th of March 2010. I was intensly looking forward to my very first recording expedition self-funded by a dj gig I did the same weekend in Svolvær, Lofoten.

I stayed in a small room at the rugged Røst Havfiskecamping together with seasonal workers from Poland. They where flown in to work twelve hours or more aday at the fish and fishoil factories during the annual Lofot -fisket, that begins in February and ends around March.

Soutwards view towards the ferryquai and the birdmountains

My first few days on Røst where spent walking about. The mainland of Røst is completely flat. The recordings was made with equipment I had rented quite cheaply from NOTAM in Oslo. A battery hungry Tascam recorder and a pair of wonderful Neumann omnis.

Mainland Røst is a cluster of a large and some smallrt islets intertwined, and inbetween theshores the tide comes and goes eternally. It had been a heavy winter so snow was still covering the ground and the birdmoutains. What you hear on this recoding is a close up of shoreside below the snow, pointing down on the seaweed where the tide was slowely sipping through it´s branches. The gulls present I presume are Herring Gulls, Common Gulls and Great Blacked Backed Gulls.

Seaweed by the shore below the last snow of March. Stavøya (Stav Island) an island shaped like a cone can be seen in the back.

Good news about good projects around the world…

Here are a few interesting articles I have come over this christmas. The world renowned American oceanographer Sylvia Earle , was featured on BBC Radio Hardtalk the other day. She is a wonderful, energetic and fantastic nature and ocean enthusiast:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9426475.stm

Please read more about the Sylvia Earl alliance here.

And The Guardian writes about “how the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our sense of wellbeing is to be explored in a three-year research project at the University of Surrey, supported by the National Trust and Surrey Wildlife Trust.The study will examine the psychological impact of being exposed to birdsong, including whether it helps us relax, can assist our ability to complete tasks and even think creatively. Eleanor Ratcliffe, the researcher undertaking the study said while there was a growing body of environmental psychology looking at how the natural world affects people, there was still a lot to understand about the power of specific natural sounds.”

You can read the whole article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/21/scientists-study-psychological-effects-birdsong/print