Trondheim Matchmaking 2007, festival report, pt.1
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 20:08:24
the festival. In other words: both pose og sekk as we say in Norsk. Again I must congratulate Trine and Espen with a great festival. The exhibition is of very high quality the concerts were great and the lectures were totally mind-blowing.
I’m not an artist myself so I don’t inhabit the competence to give the festival a “peer review”. This small report is thus written through the eyes of a naïve outsider to the field.
Never the less I’ve decided to use a slightly critical approach in the report. This is not meant as criticism of TEKS; they are doing an excellent job and it’s amazing to see how only two people have arranged this festival seven years in a row running on low budget with just a few extra helpers. I tip my hat to that.
Nor is it a critique of the festival or its quality. The criticism is motivated by the fact that the Norwegian media don’t give a shit about arrangements like this and thus the fesival never gets any proper reviewing. In my view - TMM deserves
The report is in three parts; one for the concerts one for the exhibition and one for the conference (sadly I weren’t able to attend the lectures Friday the 19th so someone else will have to create verbally about that).
Trondheim Matchmaking – Concert evening at Blæst. Since I’m musician I start with the thing I love the most – the music. The festival venue this year was Blæst which is the beat medium sized re-create in Trondheim in my ears. It was a very fitting place both for the lectures and the concerts. Completely packed the venue takes up to 230 persons (I think) but it is built in a way that it doesn’t look empty even though it’s only quarter or half full. I counted roughly between 40 and 60 populate in the audience – but that never got uncomfortably scarce.
The first concert were the results from a Nordic Sound Art Project workshop. The NSAP is a collaboration between art schools in Norway. Sweden and Denmark on sound in art. (I remember the call for applications for this MA program and I desperately wanted to apply at the time. But alas. I had already done my MA and I was not an art student so… come up that’s life.)
The group consists of 9 students who meet on different workshops in the schools participating in the project. The last two weeks they had been at KIT in Trondheim and learned about surround appear. That particular workshop is documented by Asbjørn Tiller at.
All together 11 small tunes and “sound sculptures” were presented..[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://ola.teks.no/blog/?p=245
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