Soundscape Røst for Insomnia, utstillingen åpner 19.oktober på Tromsø Kunstforening!

SOUNDSCAPE RØST FOR INSOMNIA

19.10.2012 – 04.11.2012

ÅPNER 19. OKTOBER:

Tromsø Kunstforening har i flere år samarbeidet med Insomniafestivalen for elektronisk musikk, både gjennom utstillinger og konserter. I år er Elin Øyen Vister utvalgt som Festivalkunstner.

Soundscape Røst er et tverrfaglig kunstprosjekt med hovedfokus på lyd. Vister, som har bakgrunn som lydkunstner, komponist og artist under navnet DJ Sunshine og fra Nordic Sound Art Joint Study programmet ved Kunstakademiet i Trondheim, har i en årrekke utforsket og dokumentert lydmiljøet på Røst. Hun gjør feltopptak av lydlandskapene som ette hvert settes inn i en stedsspesifikk installasjonskontekst.

Gjennom sine lydinstallasjoner ønsker Vister å rette fokus på levende kyskulturer og Norges sårbare sjøfuglbestand, hvis mangfold og livsgrunnlag er truet på grunn av klimaendringer og menneskelig inngripen i naturen.

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Soundscape Røst – The Listening Lounge. Photo: Christina Kubisch

The Listening Lounge. Photo: Maria Therese Laub

The astonishing documentary “The Act of Killing” had is world premiere at the Toronto film festival!

Final Cut For Real presents:

The Act Of Killing

A Film By Joshua Oppenheimer

Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.
Co-directed by Christine Cynn & Anonymous.

Produced by Signe Børge Sørensen

Executive produced by Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and André Singer.

“I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade… It is unprecedented in the history of cinema.”

-Werner Herzog

I was honoured to be given the amazing opportunity to work on ambient sound compositions,  for this original, beautiful and shocking documentary. It was a joy even though the story is so hardcore that I could barely watch it at first.

Watch the trailer here!

The Guardian journalist Catheringe Shoard writes in her review of the documentary The Act Of Killing how “Joshua Oppenheimer’s surreal, astonishing documentary recreates the atrocities of 1960s Indonesian death squads.“

The Act of Killing still

Links to reviews:

The Jakarta Post

The Guardian

CNN

Screen Daily

Working at BEK in Bergen from the 13th til the 29th of September

I am very happy and greatful to be spending the next to weeks at BEK, in Bergen.

Coinciding with my stay at BEK is Bergen Open, which means you can come and visit BEK and listen and see works in progress by myself, and artist Espen Sommer Eide (NO) and Nathan Wolek (USA). Doors will be open from Friday the 14th of September at 6 pm until midnight, and Saturday as well as  Sunday the 16th til 4pm.

I am spending my time at BEK working on “Røster”, a new soundwork for 8 channels, in collaboration with Trond Lossius. (A Norwegian artist pioneer in spatialisation of audio, field recordings and multichannel sound installations and composistions.) He will assist me in the use of the ViMiC system, and testing speaker setups. The work will be premiered as a soundinstallation at Tromsø Kunstforening, during my exhibition “Soundscape Røst for Insomnia” which opens on October the 19th in Tromsø.

Where to buy the vinyl ?

Tigernet and the physical shop Tiger, situated in Hammersborggt. 18 (close to Youngstorget in Oslo),now stocks Soundscape Røst – Spaces And Species Vol I. Click here to buy the vinyl. 300 copies only. On 180 gr vinyl, with double gatefold sleave and coloured innersleave. Mastered and pressed by Record Industry in the Netherlands.

A great article in Morgenbladet about Soundscape Røst!

Lyden av fugler som forsvinner!

Featuring on a new release by Impulsive Habitat!

Quiet Position- Locale

The soundrecordist and artist Jez Riley, currently discovering the hidden sounds of the Tate Modern building in London, has curated a free download album of fieldrecordings for the Impulsive Habitat label entitled: Quiet Position – Locale. I am featuring a track recorded on Hriesy in Island amonst others my Nordic Sound Art collegue Signe Lide

The first release in the Sounscape Røst series!

Six tracks to preview on Soundcloud: