Our much-loved Borealis Listening Club is back – this time in new clothes, as a live concert at Østre featuring Ensemble Obsidian!
Join us on 11 November to hear works by three composers who took part in BUK 2024/25: Eira Sjaastad Huse, Daiyen Jone Castro and Jakob Thonander Glans.
Over the course of a year, and with guidance from mentors Okkyung Lee, Camille Norment and Sigurd Fischer Olsen, the composers developed new works in collaboration with Ensemble Obsidian, an inimitable trio of voice, flute and cello. The works were originally presented at Borealis 2025, and now return in a new setting.
The three works we'll hear explore texture, sound and storytelling, each in their own way.
In Eira Sjaastad Huse's Salmon Songs, the journey of the salmon provides a starting point for a virtuosic vocal work. Instinct, migration and the call of the salmon are woven into music that moves between storytelling and pure sound.
Daiyen Jone Castro's Studies of Believe Memories draws on reminiscences from a Cuban childhood. Here, memory is experienced as scenes we return to and work through, filtered through Castro's characteristic interest in timbre, texture and sonic effect, and in setting silence against rhythm and contrast against continuity.
Jakob Thonander Glans' emo katarsis brings his background as a guitarist in the hardcore band RONÖM into his compositional work. The work follows Glans' self-proclaimed "brutalist" aesthetic: music that is bold, simple, heavy and deliberately "cheap". Built around extreme dynamic contrasts and fast tempos, emo katarsis aims for an immediate, physical release rather than a contemplative experience.
Come listen, discover, and experience three very different approaches to making music – brought together in one concert.
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