Recordings, concerts, talks/workshops and compositions (2007-10)

Recordings

 

Michael Francis Duch Edges, +3db rec. (2010)

Solo recording of experimental compositions from the fifties and sixties:

Edges (Christian Wolff), December 1952 (Earle Brown), Octet ’61 (Cornelius Cardew), Projection 1 (Morton Feldman) and For Strings (Howard Skempton).

 

Lemur Aigéan, +3db rec. (2010)

Quartet recording of improvised music by Michael Duch, Lene Grenager, Hild Sofie Tafjord and Bjørnar Habbestad.

 

John Tilbury/Michael Duch/ Rhodri Davies Cornelius Cardew – Works 1960-70, +3db rec. (2010) Trio recording of compositions by Cornelius Cardew:

Autumn 60, 4th system, Material, Solo with Accompaniment, Treatise and Unintended Piano Music.

 

en en en Rød & Blå, Øra fonogram, OF010 (2010)

Trio recording of improvised music by Eirik Hegdal, Michael Duch and Tor Haugerud.

 

Alpaca Ensemble/Eirik Hegdal Elevator, Øra fonogram, OF009 (2010)

Ensemble recording of Eirik Hegdal’s Elevator.

 

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Kim Myhr Stems and Cages, MNJ rec, MNJCD008 (2010)

Ensemble recording of Kim Myhr’s Stems and Cages

 

Tony Conrad/C. Spencer Yeh/Michael F. Duch Musculus Trapezius, Picadisc, PICA013 (2010)

Trio recording of improvised music by Tony Conrad, C. Spencer Yeh and Michael Duch.

 

 

Concerts 

 

2007

October

Sunday 7th, LEMUR at Parkteateret at the Ultima festival, Oslo

 

10-13

TRICYCLE

Wednesday 10th, Free Resonance festival, Trondheim

Thursday 11th, Insomnia festival, Tromsø

Friday 12th, Tou, Stavanger

Saturday 13th, Victoriaville, Oslo

 

November

11-23

LEMUR

Sunday 11th, Hamburg

Monday 12th, Amsterdam

Tuesday 13th, Västerås

Wednesday 14th, Stockholm

Saturday 17th, Ystad

Tuesday 20th, Gothenburg

Wednesday 21st, Oslo,

Thursday 22nd, Hamar

Friday 23rd, Trondheim

 

Thursday 29th, premiere performance of Taku Sugimoto’s ”November 2007” with Julia Eckhardt and Angharad Davies at the LMC festival, London

 

Friday 30th, solo at the 2’13 and No Spaghetti festival, Athens

 

December

Saturday 1st, solo at the 2’13 and No Spaghetti festival, Athens

 

N-Ensemble

Saturday 15th, Trondheim

Sunday 16th, Bergen

 

2008

January

LEMUR

Tuesday 22nd, Sound of Mu, Oslo

 

February

Thursday 21st, with Lasse Marhaug at Mir, Oslo

Monday 25th, with Ingar Zach at TSSK, Trondheim

 

Wednesday 27th, with Tony Conrad and C. Spencer Yeh in Sofienberg kirke, Oslo

 

March

Sunday 2nd, solo to the shortfilm ”Intervals” by Peter Greenaway at Kosmorama film festival at Nova kino, Trondheim

 

Saturday 16th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music solo at Sound 323, London

 

Saturday 29th, with Ketil Gutvik and Christian Münthe at Sound of Mu, Oslo

 

April

Ingar Zach

Friday 18th, Barcelos

Saturday 19th, Lisbon

Sunday 20, Madrid

 

May

LEMUR

Thursday 1st, Dokkhuset, Trondheim

Friday 2nd, Speilet/Blå Grotte, Fredrikstad

Saturday 3rd, Landmark, Bergen

Sunday 4th, Sound of Mu, Oslo

 

June

No concerts

 

July

Thursday 31st, performing music by Cornelius Cardew with Rhodri Davies and John Tilbury at Olavsfestdagene at Dokkhuset, Trondheim

 

August

Saturday 30th, with Neil Davidson at Adrianstua, Trondheim

 

September

Thursday 18th, solo with the short film ”Screen Test – Helmut” by Andy Warhol at Cinemateket at Prinsen kino, Trondheim

 

Thursday 25th, premiere performance of ”Elevator” by Eirik Hegdal with Alpaca Ensemble and several premieres by Grenager, Torvund, Melhus with Victoria Johnson, Øyvind Storesund and Else Olsen S. at Trondheim Kammermusikkfestival at Dokkhuset, Trondheim

 

Friday 26th, solo and trio with Tone Åse and Andreas Aase at Researchers Night at Blæst, Trondheim

 

October

Friday 10th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music solo at the Geiger festival, Gothenburg

 

Saturday 11th, LEMUR at USF, Bergen

 

Tuesday 21st, en en en at Blæst, Trondheim

 

November

LEMUR

Thursday 6th, Berlin

Friday 7th, Brussels

Sunday 9th, Rotterdam

Monday 10th, Hamburg

Friday 14th, Taipei

Tuesday 18th, Xiamen

Thursday 20th, Foshan

Friday 21st, Shenzhen

Saturday 22nd, Macau

 

Sunday 30th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music solo at Landmark, Bergen

 

December

Tuesday 16th, N-Ensemble at Alberto Ukebana, Berlin

 

2009

January

Thursday 15th, Lemur at All Ears festival, Oslo

 

Friday 16th, with Anita Kaasbøll and Steve Beresford at All Ears festival, Oslo

 

Saturday 17th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music solo at Moonshake, Umeå

 

Saturday 31st, performing Christian Wolff’s “Edges” in Vår Frue kirke, Trondheim

February

Monday 23rd, en en en at Blæst, Trondheim

 

March

Wednesday 25th, Lemur at Griegakademiet at Borealis festival, Bergen

 

April

Saturday 18th, with Kyrre Laastad at Gråmølna, Trondheim

 

Saturday 25th, with Ingar Zach and Davis Stackenäs at Galleri Babel, Trondheim

 

Wednesday 29th, solo and duo with Neil Davidson at Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow

 

May

Sunday 3rd, Dronerom at Henie Onsdag kunstsenter, Høvikodden

 

Friday 15th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music solo several places in Trondheim

 

Thursday 28th, with Diane Torr at Tramway, Glasgow

 

Friday 29th, solo at Trondheim Jazz festival at Galleri Babel, Trondheim

 

June

Saturday 27th, Fluxus performance with Guttorm Nordø, Audun Eriksen, Truls Lorentzen at Steinkjer festival, Steinkjer

 

July

Tuesday 14th, Trondheim Jazzorkester at Molde jazz festival, Molde

 

August

Saturday 1st, Trondheim jazzorkester at Olavsfestdagene at Vår frue kirke, Trondheim

 

Sunday 30th, premiere performance of ”Petite Géante” by Stephen O’Malley with Stephen O’Malley, Per Zanussi, Daniel O’Sullivan and Hildur Gudnadottir at Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Høvikodden

 

Monday 31st, en en en at Credo, Trondheim

 

September

en en en

Friday 4th, Robot, Bergen

Saturday 5th, Sound of Mu, Oslo

Sunday 6th, TSSK, Trondheim

 

Saturday 19th, performing ”The Tigers Mind” by Cornelius Cardew with Tigers Mind Ensemble with Truls Lorentzen, Pekka Stokke, Matt Burt, Kyrre Laastad, Arnulf Johansen, Stig Førde Aarskog and Eirik Hegdal during Forskningsdagene at Dokkhuset, Trondheim

 

Friday 25th, performing music by Charles Mingus with Øyvind Brandtsegg, Eirik Hegdal and Truls Rønning at Researchers Night at Teaterhuset Avant garden, Trondheim

 

October

Sunday 4th, performing music by Charles Mingus with Øyvind Brandtsegg, Eirik Hegdal and Truls Rønning at Studentersamfundet, Trondheim

 

Lemur

Thursday 22nd, Nils Aas, Inderøy

Friday 23rd, Dokkhuset, Trondheim

Sunday 25th, Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow

Monday 26th, Glasgow University, Glasgow

Tuesday 27th University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Wednesday 28th, Ryan’s Bar, London

Thursday 29th, St. Philips Church, Salford

 

November

Sunday 1st, Lemur at Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Høvikodden

 

Saturday 14th, performing music by Cornelius Cardew with Rhodri Davies and John Tilbury at Free Resonance festival at Dokkhuset, Trondheim

 

Sunday 22nd, performing music by Cornelius Cardew conducted by John Tilbury and Dave Smith at ICA, London

 

Saturday 28th, performing ”Horse sings from cloud” by Pauline Oliveros with Pauline Oliveros, Maja Ratkje, Frode Haltli and others at Open Form-festival at Gamle Aker kirke, Oslo

 

December

Tuesday 8th, duo with Tone Åse at Blæst, Trondheim

 

Wednesday 16th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music with Trondheim Sinfonietta at Turtrikken, Trondheim

 

2010

January

Friday 15th, performing music by Cornelius Cardew with John Tilbury at Kammersalen, Trondheim

 

February

Wednesday 17th, performing Cornelius Cardews ”The Great Learning” and ”Schooltime Compositions” with Svartlamon’ Hardkor and others at Verkstedhallen, Trondheim

 

March

Friday 12th, performing music by Cornelius Cardew with John Tilbury at Borealis festival, Bergen

 

Trondheim Jazzorkester

Thursday 11th, Gamle logen, Oslo

Friday 12th, Borealis festival at Logen, Bergen

Saturday 13th, Tou scene, Stavanger

 

April

Wednesday 7th, ”Pendulum Music” by Steve Reich at Dokkhuset in Trondheim, Norway

 

Saturday 17th, solo at hulen at Lade, Trondheim

 

Wednesday 21st, with Kyrre Laastad and Arild Vange at Bella Bulldog, Trondheim

 

Lemur

Saturday 24th, Bomuldsfabrikken, Arendal

Sunday 25th, performing ”Four6” by John Cage with Tom Hovinbøle at Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Høvikodden

 

XLemur with Kjetil Møster, Eivind Lønning, Børre Mølstad and John Hegre

 

Wednesday 28th, Galleri 3,14, Bergen

Thursday 29th, Podium, Oslo

 

May

Tuesday 4th, en en en and Alpaca Ensemble at Dokkhuset, Trondheim

 

Friday 20th, performing music by Michael Pisaro with Marianne Lie and Kyrre Laastad several places in Trondheim

 

Sunday 23rd, Trondheim Jazzorkester at International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Victoriavile

 

Tuesday 25th, with Gordon Allen, Isaiah Ceccarelli and Xavier Charles at Le Cagibi, Montreal

 

Wednesday 26th, with Tor Haugerud, Klaus Holm and Xavier Charles at L’envers, Montreal

 

Friday 28th, with Tor Haugerud and Klaus Holm at Somewhere There, Toronto

June

Saturday 12th, performing Cornelius Cardews ”The Tigers Mind” with Tigers Mind Ensemble at Blæst, Trondheim

 

July

No concerts

 

August

Friday 20th, Dog & Sky (Matt Burt, Truls Lorentzen, Vigdis Sjelmo and Eirik Hegdal) and Lemur at Pstereo festival, Trondheim

 

Saturday 21st, with Kyrre Laastad and Arild Vange at a garden party at Adrianstua, Trondheim

 

Sunday 22nd, improvising solo to an exhibition of portraits by Anne-Karin Furunes at Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim

 

Monday 23rd, en en en at Kammersalen in Olavskvartalet, Trondheim

 

September

Saturday 18th, Lemur, Tilbury/Duch/Davies and solo at Nidarosdomen, Trondheim

 

 

Compositions

 

Cornelius Cardew

Autumn 60 (1960)

4th System (from February Pieces) (1961)

Octet ’61 for Jasper Johns (1961)

Solo with Accompaniment (1964)

Material (1964)

Treatise (1963-67)

Schooltime Compositions (1967)

Sextet - The Tigers Mind (1967)

The Great Learning (paragraph 3 & 6) (1968-70)

Unintended Piano Music (1970)

 

Christian Wolff

For 1, 2 or 3 people (1964)

Prose Collection (1967-69)

Pairs (1968)

Edges (1969)

Tilbury 4 (1970)

Burdocks 1970-71)

Out-take (2005)

Metal & Breath (2007)

 

John Cage

4’33 (1952)

59 1/2 for a string player (1953)

Variations 2 (1961)

Four6 (1992)

 

Earle Brown

Folio and 4 systems:

November 1952 (“Synergy”) (1952)

December 1952 (1952)

4 systems (1954)

 

Morton Feldman

Projection 1 (for solo cello) (1950)

Intersection 4 (1953)

 

Fluxus, Scratch and Text pieces

La Monte Young: Composition 1960 (nr. 7) (1960)

George Brecht: Solo for Violin, Viola, Cello or Contrabass (1962)

Mieko Shiomi: Boundary Music (1963)

Yoko Ono: Overtone piece (1964)

Steve Reich: Pendulum Music (1968)

Howard Skempton: for strings (1969)

Gavin Bryars: Jesus blood never failed me yet (1971)

Pauline Oliveros: Horse Sings From Cloud (1979)

Michael Pisaro: Hinwandeln (zwischen himmel und erd) (2005)

 

Premieres

Taku Sugimoto: November 29, 2007 (2007)

Bjørn Thomas Melhus: U – the Play (2007)

Øyvind Torvund: Maploop 2 (2008)

Lene Grenager: Moving the Stones (2008)

Eirik Hegdal: Elevator (2008)

Stephen O’Malley: Petite Géante (2009)

Kim Myhr: Stems and Cages (2009)

 

 

Talks, seminars and workshops

 

2007

LEMUR

November

Tuesday 20th,”Practicing Free Improvisation in Ensemble”, seminar at Musikhögskolan in Gothenburg, Sweden

 

2008

April

LEMUR

Wednesday 30th,”Practicing Free Improvisation in Ensemble”, seminar at Institutt for Musikk, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

 

August

Neil Davidson

Friday 29th, ”Ethics and Improvisation”, seminar at Institutt for Musikk, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

 

September

Friday 26th, ”Free Improvisation”, interview at Researchers Night at Blæst in Trondheim, Norway

 

October

Friday 31st, “Free Improvisation and Experimental Music”, talk at the opening of the exhibition “Seven holes in my head” at The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

 

2009

February

Thursday 5th, Project presentation at Adrianstua in Trondheim, Norway

 

March

Lemur

Wednesday 25th,”Practicing Free Improvisation in Ensemble”, seminar at Griegakademiet during the Borealis festival in Bergen, Norway

 

April

Neil Davidson

Sunday 26th, ”Music of Christian Wolff”, Workshop with Contemporary Music Ensemble at Glasgow University, Scotland

 

Monday 27th, ”Improvisation in Experimental Music”, talk at Glasgow University, Scotland

 

September

en en en

Friday 4th, workshop at Griegakademiet in Bergen, Norway

 

Saturday 19th, ”The Tigers Mind” by Cornelius Cardew, talk during Forskningsdagene at Dokkhuset in Trondheim, Norway

 

November

Saturday 14th, ”Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra”, talk with John Tilbury at Dokkhuset in Trondheim, Norway

 

December

Thursday 10th, project presentation at Dokkhuset in Trondheim, Norway

 

2010

January

Friday 15th, ”Music and Ethics”, seminar with John Tilbury at Institutt for Musikk, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

 

February

Wednesday 17th, ”The Great Learning” by Cornelius Cardew, talk at Verkstedhallen in Trondheim, Norway

 

Saturday 20th, project presentation at Dokkhuset in Trondheim, Norway