Folklore (Traditional Customs, Tales, Sayings, Dances, Or Art Forms Preserved Among a People) Trondheim Voices

• Helge Sten (b. 1971) & Ståle Storløkken (b. 1969):
• 1Chant For The Multipresence06:04
• 2Ascend03:29
• 3Facing The Outerworld05:24
• 4Aether III04:44
• 5Descend03:11
• 6Choral05:20
• 7Aether I02:03
• 8Illumination II03:53
• 9Counter-Earth04:35
• 10Illumination I07:19
• 11All Stand, Head Erect, Eyes Open01:58
• 12Facing The Innerworld02:35
• 13Aether II02:48
• Total Runtime53:23

Info for Folklore (Traditional Customs, Tales, Sayings, Dances, Or Art Forms Preserved Among a People)

Monumental vocal: Get ready for an extraordinary concert performance when two of Norway’s most distinguished sound artists, writes music for some of their countrys finest experimental vocalists.

What happens when 2/3 of the Norwegian power-trio “Supersilent” use Trondheim Voices as a living breathing instrument?

In this work, the pioneering vocal ensemble uses its voices as one massive microtonal instrument – replacing words with tones, exploring multi-voice drones and sounds in a timeless chant-like manner.

Folklore draws on inspiration from medieval times, ancient rituals and the art of folklore.

The expression folklore is a collective term for tradition-led art and knowledge, which is shared between generations through actions from human to human. It has often belonged in the informal, non-commercial part of culture.

Helge Sten and Ståle Storløkken’s work Folklore explores the distance between acoustic and electronic sound, harmonic and microtonal music, the known and unknown. Time ceases and opens up for new ways of listening.

Trondheim Voices

Trondheim Voices
is a groundbreaking Norwegian ensemble of improvising vocalists, constantly challenging and changing the framework for how a vocal ensemble can produce sound art. Since 2001, they have made solid statements as developers within vocal and improvised music, expanding the traditional concert format, searching for new music in the interaction between the singers, the audience, the surroundings and new technology.

Through their many collaborations with cutting edge composers and stage artists, and especially through their collaboration with sound designer Asle Karstad, Trondheim Voices has reached a whole new level of improvising, with both music, movement, new technology, space, and time. The subtle interaction between the singers, the sound-designer, the audience, and the moment, is their point of navigation – making new music through listening and letting go.

These voices are like no choir you ever heard. They can form pale clouds of sound, or pools of glowing light, or bright shafts of pure sound. Phrases can soar before suddenly reversing direction and travelling backwards, but along a different tangent. Rising from the luminous sound beds — sometimes lush, sometimes austere – float a disembodied melody from an ancient world, an overheard conversation, a whisper from the past, the rumblings of a distant storm, the babble of children, or something that sounds like the ambient chatter of an asteroid belt. The individual strands cluster, entwine, swell, and then disperse, perhaps to leave a single voice exposed in all its natural beauty before others return to take up its cues and head off in a new direction. (Richard Williams, music publicist and former director, Jazzfest Berlin)

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