"a kind of musical block universe devoid of time’s beginning/middle/end arrow. Its existence seems oddly necessary - as if this sound had to exist, always existed, a part of the universe the group is discovering rather than inventing."
http://the-out-door.tumblr.com/post/159676716040/200-words-sult-lasse-marhaug
April 18, 2017
April 17, 2017
Harpoon reviewed by Touching Extremes
https://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/sult-marhaug-harpoon/
April 13, 2017
a closer listen: Harpoon
"As the harpoon rends the flesh of animals and provokes the backlash of nervous systems, the musicians grind their instruments and materials to dust in a process that unleashes a similarly noisy response, a cruelty that oscillates between the impassioned and the neutral, or in other words, the kind of violence that seemingly only nature is capable of."
https://acloserlisten.com/2017/04/05/sult-lasse-marhaug-harpoon/
https://acloserlisten.com/2017/04/05/sult-lasse-marhaug-harpoon/
April 12, 2017
Harpoon on Ribosome Radio
Harpoon is featured on this cool radio show alongside Eli Keszler and a bunch of other good music.
April 4, 2017
April shows
This Sunday at CNMAT, Danishta Rivero and I are joining Scott Rubin and Tamara Chu for a first-time collaboration involving improvised music, diffused sound, dance, and paint. Read on for details, and a couple other April events.
Sun 4/9
CNMAT Users Group Presents:
eudiser is a performance experiment in cross-modal initiations and interactions. Scored for a dancer and three musicians, eudiser interrogates relationships between movement and sound through creating situations of ambiguous influence between the artists using acoustic, electronic, and visual mediums.
Outfitted with motion sensors, the dancer exerts influence over the electronic sound. These sensors stream movement data to a computer, which maps the data to sample, process, and playback shadows of the live acoustic sound.
As the music serves as an audible commentary on the movement, the canvas serves as a visual one. Using the body as a paint brush, the dancer creates a trail of her movement, gestures from the past that contextualize the present, feeding the sound that continues to create it.
Tamara Chu - dance, motion sensors, paint
Danishta Rivero - voice, electronics
Scott Rubin - viola, electronics
Jacob Felix Heule - percussion
featuring Trajectories: live sound diffusion algorithm by Ilya Y. Rostovtsev
CNMAT
1750 Arch St, Berkeley
$10 / $5 students
https://www.facebook.com/events/111782322648653/
Tue 4/11
Active Music Series presents:
Andrew Jamieson's IVES BAND — multiple melodies played simultaneously, usually in contrasting keys and tempi, by Z Hazen, MB D’Augelli, J Marshall, A Jamieson, B Carson, B Zucker, R Kim, A Oppenheim, T DeCillis.
NAKATA is a free-improv duo consisting of Patrick Shiroishi (of Upsilon Acrux) on saxophones & Paco Casanova on keys. The two have been playing improvised music for 5 years as a duo and also in the progressive instrumental quintet Corima. They are releasing their first official record on Jacknife Records exploring different sonic qualities both instruments have to offer. They will be joined by Oakland percussionist Jacob Felix Heule.
ANGELA ROBERTS
Uptown Nightclub
1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland
9:00 PM
$5-15
https://www.facebook.com/events/972387269563714/
Sun 4/16
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation workshop in free improvisation)
7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
https://www.facebook.com/events/1428358083852231/
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I’ve been uploading a lot of recent sets to the Active Music Series youtube page. Check ‘em out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQCMD7sxFGq9u5D-UaYQgCQ
Sun 4/9
CNMAT Users Group Presents:
eudiser is a performance experiment in cross-modal initiations and interactions. Scored for a dancer and three musicians, eudiser interrogates relationships between movement and sound through creating situations of ambiguous influence between the artists using acoustic, electronic, and visual mediums.
Outfitted with motion sensors, the dancer exerts influence over the electronic sound. These sensors stream movement data to a computer, which maps the data to sample, process, and playback shadows of the live acoustic sound.
As the music serves as an audible commentary on the movement, the canvas serves as a visual one. Using the body as a paint brush, the dancer creates a trail of her movement, gestures from the past that contextualize the present, feeding the sound that continues to create it.
Tamara Chu - dance, motion sensors, paint
Danishta Rivero - voice, electronics
Scott Rubin - viola, electronics
Jacob Felix Heule - percussion
featuring Trajectories: live sound diffusion algorithm by Ilya Y. Rostovtsev
CNMAT
1750 Arch St, Berkeley
$10 / $5 students
https://www.facebook.com/events/111782322648653/
Tue 4/11
Active Music Series presents:
Andrew Jamieson's IVES BAND — multiple melodies played simultaneously, usually in contrasting keys and tempi, by Z Hazen, MB D’Augelli, J Marshall, A Jamieson, B Carson, B Zucker, R Kim, A Oppenheim, T DeCillis.
NAKATA is a free-improv duo consisting of Patrick Shiroishi (of Upsilon Acrux) on saxophones & Paco Casanova on keys. The two have been playing improvised music for 5 years as a duo and also in the progressive instrumental quintet Corima. They are releasing their first official record on Jacknife Records exploring different sonic qualities both instruments have to offer. They will be joined by Oakland percussionist Jacob Felix Heule.
ANGELA ROBERTS
Uptown Nightclub
1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland
9:00 PM
$5-15
https://www.facebook.com/events/972387269563714/
Sun 4/16
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation workshop in free improvisation)
7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
https://www.facebook.com/events/1428358083852231/
—
I’ve been uploading a lot of recent sets to the Active Music Series youtube page. Check ‘em out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQCMD7sxFGq9u5D-UaYQgCQ
March 26, 2017
Esoteric review of an esoteric record.
"Jewels won’t come out clean using the gear in this way. Jewels will come out scratched." http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-sult-lasse-marhaug-harpoon
March 8, 2017
March shows
Two times this week I have the rare privilege of playing somebody else’s
music, those somebodies being Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir and Chris Duncan.
Later in the month my main band Voicehandler has the pleasure of
opening for John Chantler.
First, the big one:
Thu 3/23
John Chantler is a musician and organizer living in Stockholm, Sweden working with synthesizers, electronics and sometimes pipe organs to explore his own personalized compositional and improvisational strategies — working with and against the specific systems inherent in his chosen tools. https://vimeo.com/170416110
Voicehandler plays intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the most primitive and somatic instruments -- the voice and percussion -- juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics. We situate ourselves in our physical and social environment through our music. Our improvisations are shaped by their setting and context, and we use site-specific installations to more deeply experience spaces. We deconstruct song forms in relation to mythology and literature to explore our humanity and the shifting discourse surrounding it.
OMMO is an electro-acoustic duo comprised of Julie Moon and Adria Otte. Launched in 2014 with collaborative projects inspired by shared interests in Korean diasporic identity, ritual and impressionistic harmonies, the duo seeks opportunities to explore past traditions through a contemporary and conscious framework, employing varying configurations of piano, voice, violin and electronics in original compositions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi7JXtbmEyU
LAND AND SEA, 5428 SAN PABLO, OAKLAND
And the two larger group shows, both this week:
Thu 3/9
Signal Flow at Mills College
- chris wood (Haas Gym)
- Kaori Suzuki (Chapel)
- Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir (Chapel)
- Isaac Otto (Chapel)
I’m playing Bergrún’s piece with Kyle Bruckmann, Marissa Deitz, John McCowen, Crystal Pascucci, and William Winant.
https://www.facebook.com/events/248251808956661/
http://www.signal-flow.org
Sat 3/11
Chris Duncan’s 12 SYMBOLS
1275 Minnesota St. San Francisco
8pm - 10pm (performance begins at 8:30 sharp)
12 SYMBOLS is an immersive sound performance that metaphorically implicates the energy and patterns of the sun and the moon.
12 SYMBOLS questions how we perceive and experience the passing of time through sound and vision.
12 percussionists stand in a large circle as if they were numbers on a clock.
performed by: Ashley Bellouin, Nicole Thomas, Christie Yuri Noh, Jen Belleville, Marcella Gries, Kevin Corcoran, Jacob Heule, Jason Leggiere, Aaron Harbour, James Cordas, Ben Bracken, and Christopher Duncan
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Of course my two recurring series:
Tue 3/14 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- We Buy Gold (Glenn, Hoopes, Lopez, Rivero)
- Lion Creek
- Goldberg/Wong/Trammell/Anderson
https://www.facebook.com/events/175162322987226/
Sun 3/19 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation workshop in free improvisation)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1862994210642946/
—
NEW LP! Sult (Guro Moe, Håvard Skaset & me) mixed and chopped up by LASSE MARHAUG. https://sult.bandcamp.com/
First, the big one:
Thu 3/23
John Chantler is a musician and organizer living in Stockholm, Sweden working with synthesizers, electronics and sometimes pipe organs to explore his own personalized compositional and improvisational strategies — working with and against the specific systems inherent in his chosen tools. https://vimeo.com/170416110
Voicehandler plays intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the most primitive and somatic instruments -- the voice and percussion -- juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics. We situate ourselves in our physical and social environment through our music. Our improvisations are shaped by their setting and context, and we use site-specific installations to more deeply experience spaces. We deconstruct song forms in relation to mythology and literature to explore our humanity and the shifting discourse surrounding it.
OMMO is an electro-acoustic duo comprised of Julie Moon and Adria Otte. Launched in 2014 with collaborative projects inspired by shared interests in Korean diasporic identity, ritual and impressionistic harmonies, the duo seeks opportunities to explore past traditions through a contemporary and conscious framework, employing varying configurations of piano, voice, violin and electronics in original compositions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi7JXtbmEyU
LAND AND SEA, 5428 SAN PABLO, OAKLAND
And the two larger group shows, both this week:
Thu 3/9
Signal Flow at Mills College
- chris wood (Haas Gym)
- Kaori Suzuki (Chapel)
- Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir (Chapel)
- Isaac Otto (Chapel)
I’m playing Bergrún’s piece with Kyle Bruckmann, Marissa Deitz, John McCowen, Crystal Pascucci, and William Winant.
https://www.facebook.com/events/248251808956661/
http://www.signal-flow.org
Sat 3/11
Chris Duncan’s 12 SYMBOLS
1275 Minnesota St. San Francisco
8pm - 10pm (performance begins at 8:30 sharp)
12 SYMBOLS is an immersive sound performance that metaphorically implicates the energy and patterns of the sun and the moon.
12 SYMBOLS questions how we perceive and experience the passing of time through sound and vision.
12 percussionists stand in a large circle as if they were numbers on a clock.
performed by: Ashley Bellouin, Nicole Thomas, Christie Yuri Noh, Jen Belleville, Marcella Gries, Kevin Corcoran, Jacob Heule, Jason Leggiere, Aaron Harbour, James Cordas, Ben Bracken, and Christopher Duncan
—
Of course my two recurring series:
Tue 3/14 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- We Buy Gold (Glenn, Hoopes, Lopez, Rivero)
- Lion Creek
- Goldberg/Wong/Trammell/Anderson
https://www.facebook.com/events/175162322987226/
Sun 3/19 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation workshop in free improvisation)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1862994210642946/
—
NEW LP! Sult (Guro Moe, Håvard Skaset & me) mixed and chopped up by LASSE MARHAUG. https://sult.bandcamp.com/
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