Bergen International Festival

Bergen, NORWAY

May 31 & June 1

Yarn/Wire joins JACK Quartet at the Bergen International Festival for the performance of two works by Øyvind Torvund.

Illustration by Åshild Kanstad Johnsen

Alongside regular musical studies in Oslo and Berlin, the Norwegian composer Øyvind Torvund played guitar in rock and improvising groups, and his music assembles disparate materials, inconsistent attitude: sounds from rock or from everyday life (or nature) occurring in chamber music, simplicity in a complex context, improvisation coexisting with exact notation, music combined with film or projections, seriousness in counterpoint with humor. Raw melodic schemes may come from Purcell, the infill from the detritus of electronic distortion or street noise. Categories are split open or blurred, habits unbent. To quote Iggy Pop: “The neon forest is my home.”

Program
May 31 at 7:30pm - Yarn/Wire + JACK Quartet
JACK + Yarn/Wire perform the world premiere of works by Øyvind Torvund alongside works by Misato Mochizuki, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Morton Feldman.

June 1 at 1:00pm - Øyvind Torvund’s “Sound of the Forest”
New Version directed by Ingrid Askvik
Projection and Animation Design by Maciej Lewandowski

These events were made possible with the friendly support of the Ernst Von Siemens Music Foundation