day 4 of the creative insanity in TRondheim called Pieces of Peace & Fire!

saturday . kunsthall trondheim – 8 pm!

record trading day!!!! ( earlier today at the kunsthall! )

 

and new versions of Hidros 4 (2001) and PLUGS EXTENDED (2000/2018) – to Dror Feiler

 

rehearsal PLUGS EXTENDED

rehearsal PLUGS EXTENDED

Up and running!  the exhibition is open….. and more music coming tonight:

PETTER (2015) and some kickin ad hoc activities on double bass, accordion, floor tom and sax!

radio feature here ( in norwegian) :

https://radiorevolt.no/programmer/p%C3%A5tirsdag

starts at ca 30 minute.

 

FRIDAY 23rd august – Trondheim Kunsthall – Petter & Ad Hoc —-  7 pm !

 

GRAPHIC SCORES:

HIDROS 7 (2016)

HIDROS 5 (2003)

HIDROS 3 (2000)

 

 

VARIATIONS (on a theme ) record covers:

ALbert Ayler Bells, (ESP 1965)

Peter Kowald Quintet ( FMP 0070)

 

Josef Kip Quartet (JKQ 1978)

Symfoni nr 1 (2014)

EXIT! (2012)

FELIX ( 1999- 2019)

Hockey Hidros (2009)

 

 

and preperations for Petter (2015) :

 

yesterday…. finnally — the opening of PIECES OF PEACE AND FIRE!

and performances by Trondheim Voices, Mette Rasmusen& Klaus Holm, the Fiske mirakelet by Dieb13, Leif Elggren and Mats Gustafsson and more…

Thank you all at NyMusikk and Kunsthall Trondheim  & Carl – Martin Faurby – – for AMAZING help and support w the exhibition!

 

tonight at 7 pm  —–  do not miss:

 

PETTER ( 2015) to Petter Northug!

&

Ad hoc w the amazing Ida Lövli – accordion, Matilds Rolfsson- drum & michael Duch – bass

 

https://www.facebook.com/nyMusikkTrondheim/videos/442825303241032/?t=43

final installment of the PIECES OF PEACE & FIRE!!! tomorrow is opening with:

Kilroy (is Hidros) with Trondheim Voices

“Fiskemirakelet” w Dieb13 and king Leif Elggren

ad hoc with Mette Rasmussen, Klaus Holm & Mats Gustafsson

check it out:

 

EXIT! score for Fire Orchstra… in background Symphony nr 1 – Minnet

 

Trondheim Kunsthall, Norway!!!

 

“FELIX” (1999- 2019) a tribute to Felix Gonzales Torres —- used and broken saxophone reeds

 

 

Hidros 6 – to Little Richard

 

 

 

two videos with Thurston Moore and Mats Gustafsson —- live at henie Onstad and The Record Hunt!

 

 

Variations (on a theme) —- record cover exhibition – w ao Sun Ra´s – My brother the wind w 6 different covers… and more.. much much more……

in the background : Anna Linders amazing film  “Cum Pane” !

 

https://kunsthalltrondheim.no/utstillinger/partiturutstilling/?lang=en

 

long days of installang the  videos, scores and objects and records…..

with an amazing crew of people, from NyMusikk trondheim and Kunsthall Trondheim.

opening tomorrow —– and music tomorrow!

 

 

day one of installing the PIECES OF PEACE & FIRE! at trondheim kunsthall

FIRST GLMIPSES OF

HIDROS o.T (2019)

paintings : mathias pöschl

music and graphic scores: mats gustafsson

 

commissioned by NyMusikk Trondheim!

world premiere aug 28th 2019 – trondheim kunstmuseum

DAY 1 – travelling – Vienna – Copenhagen – Trondheim and PIECES OF PEACE & FIRE!

http://nymusikk.no/no/hva-skjer/trondheim-partiturutstilling-2019

 

now it is happening…. after monumental preperations —- im on my way to trondheim with over 80 kg´s of …. stuff……

… graphic scores….. records to show….. record covers to exhibit…. records to trade….records to play….  bari sax…. sopranino sax…. french flageolett…. fluteophone…. live electronics…. contact mices…..  vinyl killers…..

starting the set up today of the exhibition :

graphic scores of the  years 1997 – 2019

variations (of a  theme ) – record covers exhibition

a special tribute to felix gonzales torres

concerts with amazing norwegian, swedish, danish, scottish, austrian and   Elgaland Vargaland artists!!!

and a new score: HIDROS o.T. commissioned by NyMusikk  TRondheim —- in collaboration w austrian artist Mathias Pöschl!

the edition of the score arrived from the printer 2 days ago… after numbering and signing is it now ready for (music and visual) action.

limited 80 copies edition! numbered and signed, housed in a  A3 folder.

please email: mats@matsgus.com    for further info on the score and how to order.

 

PIECES OF PEACE & FIRE!

 

NEW MUSIC PROJECT IN TRONDHEIM August 22nd- 28th, 2019.

 

new commissioned piece HIDROS o.T. (2019) in collaboration w Austrian artist Mathias Pöschl

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vinyl trades

graphic scores exhibitions

vinyl cover exhibition

installations

& Performances of many older pieces by Gustafsson ao. Petter (2015) , Kilroy is (2009), Plugs Extended (2000/2018), Hidros 4 (2001)

Special appearances by Leif Elggren, Dieb13, Sofia jernberg, Stine Janvind, Klaus Holm, Mette Rasmussen, Trondheim Sinfonietta & nyMusikk Trondheim

and more , much more……

 

http://nymusikk.no/no/hva-skjer/trondheim-partiturutstilling-2019

 

photo: marclay/ keysendal

The Underflow

photo : John Corbett

 

David Grubbs – electric guitar and voice

Mats Gustafsson – saxophones and live electronics

Rob Mazurek – trumpet and electronics

 

https://soundcloud.com/domm1/the-underflow

 

The Underflow is the newly minted trio of Mats Gustafsson (reeds, electronics), Rob Mazurek (trumpet, electronics), and David Grubbs (electric guitar). Their self-titled debut album was recorded live in Athens, Greece at the record store/performance venue Underflow and will be released in the fall of 2019 by Corbett vs. Dempsey.

 

Although Gustafsson, Mazurek, and Grubbs have played together separately and operate within an extensive, overlapping network of collaborators, the three had not convened as a trio until John Corbett proposed the grouping for two nights of concerts in Athens in the summer of 2019. But there is a history: although originally from Sweden, Mats Gustafsson was a regular, vital presence in Chicago during the period when Mazurek and Grubbs were making their mark. It’s Rob Mazurek’s cornet that pushes Gastr del Sol to new highs on the track “The Seasons Reverse,” and Grubbs and Gustafsson released two duo albums in 1999 and 2003 (Apertura and Off-Road), and have been primed for years to take it to the stage again.

 

The Underflow shows the trio hitting their stride instantly, ranging widely and weirdly with utter self-possession as they veer between a dense frontline of electronics; Gustafsson’s lapidary fluteophone and explosive baritone sax; Grubbs’s crystalline, athematic voice on the guitar; and Mazurek’s all-bets-off improvisatory wildness on trumpet, sampler, and hollerin’ vocal. Satisfying as it is, this recording is only a hint of what lies ahead for the trio as they plot their first tour in early 2020.

the music will be released in the fall of 2019 by CorbettvsDempsey on CD and the Underflow art gallery and recordshop on limited edition vinyl!!!

 

 

Touring period Europa: Jan 18th – 25th 2020

Available for  festivals and project all year.

booking: danielle@oosterop.com

 

 

 

DAVID GRUBBS

David Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 190 releases; his most recent solo recording is Creep Mission (Blue Chopsticks, 2017). Grubbs was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, the Red Krayola, Matmos, Royal Trux, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, Otomo Yoshihide, Jan St. Werner, Eli Keszler, and many others. He is known for his ongoing cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch, and in 2000, his The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times. Grubbs is the author of Now that the audience is assembled and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (both Duke University Press) and, with Anthony McCall, Simultaneous Soloists (Pioneer Works Press).

 

 

“Grubbs self-consciously split[s] his brain to exacerbate the essential creative conflict, the experimental academic battling the sentimental artist on a darkling plain. The listener wins again.”

Stewart Lee, London Sunday Times

 

 

MATS GUSTAFSSON

Improviser and composer. Soloartist. Worldwide tours in working groups, Fire!,  NU – emsemble, Fire! Orchestra, Luft,  The End, Anguish and related. Collaborations with contemporary dance, theatre, visual arts as well as projects within noise, electronica, contemporary rock, contemporary music and free jazz.

Projects together with Jim O´Rourke, Christian Marclay, Albert Oehlen, Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, Eye, Joe McPhee, Merzbow, Otomo Yoshihide, Sabu Toyozumi, Derek Bailey, Paul Lovens, Neneh Cherry, Yoshimi and others

Producer and curator of International festivals and concert tours as well as work with his own record labels Slottet, Crazy Wisdom, OlofBright Editions, Blue Tower Records and TROTS.

Discaholik.

 

“There’s not much I can add to that. Very beautiful, very original…Full of surprise and very stimulating. More power to him.…I would vote for him, yeah”
-steve lacy, 2000

“one of the world’s most original and exhilarating saxophonists”   Barry Witherden, BBC Music Magazine

“He sucks…”
-olof madsen, 2005

 

 

ROB MAZUREK

 

Rob Mazurek is a multidisciplinary artist/abstractivist, with a focus on electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, performance, painting, sculpture, video, film and installation, who spent much of his creative life in Chicago, and then Brazil. He currently lives and works in Marfa Texas with his wife Britt Mazurek. 

 

Over the years Mazurek has lead/co-lead many ensembles of various sizes and shapes including Exploding Star Orchestra, Exploding Star International, Desert Encrypts, Immortal Birds Bright Wings, Pharaoh and the Underground (featuring Pharoah Sanders), Chicago Underground, Jeff Parker Duo, Pulsar Quartet, São Paulo Underground, Alternate Moon Cycles, Alien Flower Sutra, Star Splitter,  each of which possesses its own distinct musical personality. He has collaborated with a wide variety of artists, such as the great Bill Dixon, Pharoah Sanders, Mike Ladd, Roscoe Mitchell, Yusef Lateef, Fred Anderson, Nicole Mitchell, Fred Hopkins, Liam Gillick, Naná Vasconcelos, Rodrigo Brandao,  Jim O’Rourke and others.

 

…all of Mazurek’s work, draws from multiple traditions, each of them already porous and absorbent, and combines ideas from each into something utterly new, while keeping it welcoming to almost any curious listener.”
– The Wire

 

“Mixing the opaque with the diffused and blurring the lines between electric and acoustic, Rob Mazurek’s wide ambition continues to race toward the outer limits of what is possible in music.”
– Something Else

photo : John Corbett