Cross cultural meetings: Traditional music from Setesdal and world musicians
(2017)
author(s): Ingolv Haaland, Jeremy Welsh, Bjørn Ole Rasch
connected to: Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
published in: Research Catalogue
The starting point for the project is a set of recordings by Norwegian folk-musicians of Norwegian folk-songs in the “stev og slåtte” (stave and tune) tradition of Setesdal in Agder. This source material was presented to musicians around the world in various studio sessions. The musicians did immediate responses after listening to a song, connecting to the music and establishing a dialogue. The purpose of this article is to document and provide insight into some of the processes in this artistic research project. The album FERD was released on Grappa Records 17.09.17 and a 70 minute film documentary will be released in 2018.
