uRom film:
Short film from the mini festival uRom, which we arranged for students and teachers at the Norwegian Academy of Music autumn of 2024 as part of the project dissemination.
Video by Sigurd Ytre-Arne (editing/directing) and Maja Hannisdal (filming)
The album «Skymt» (2023) is an improvisational work by Roggen/Nyhus, based on remnants and memories from songs by Jean Sibelius, that once were composed to poems by Ernst Josephson, Josef Julius Wecksell, Oscar Levertin, Karl August Tavaststjerna, Johan Ludvig Runeberg and Gustaf Fröding.
The album «Symfoni» (2024) contains versions of Romantic works from Richard Strauss, Alma Mahler, Sergej Rachmaninoff, Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler, and includes texts by Emily Dickinson/Tone Hødnebø. Music and text is moved, recast and rebuilt by Roggen/Nyhus, before taken into a sound world of improvisations together with Morten Qvenild's live electronics.
«Skymt» and «Symfoni» are published as double vinyl including small book with artistic reflection texts from the project.
May be bought here, or by contacting us directly.
We would like to thank the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Norwegian Programme of Artistic Research for supporting this project in the years of 2021-2024.
Special thanks to our two chosen critical friends, Sidsel Endresen and Sten Sandell,
for invaluable and inspiring conversations throughout the project.
Thank you, Asle Karstad, for exploring together with us, and for the sound rooms that you create.
Thank you, Sigurd Ytre-Arne, for your wonderful work with filming and editing,
and for your devotion in our joint efforts of making of the video series.
Thanks to all of our dear artist colleagues who have contributed to this project with conversations, playing or writing; Are Sandbakken, Sigurd Slåttebrekk, Olav Anton Thommesen, Marius Kolbenstvedt, Nils Henrik Asheim,
Lene Grenager, Henrik Hellstenius, Eivind Buene, Anna Lindal, Anna Scott, Audun Kleive, Jon Balke, Maja Ratkje,
Trond Lossius, Per Oddvar Johansen, Morten Qvenild, Tone Hødnebø, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Henrik Frisk,
Peter Knudsen, Therese Lien Evenstad, Klas Nevrin.
Thanks to Mike Hartung and Morgan Nicolaysen for great album sound, thanks to Daria Kosheleva and the others in the academy administration who have been supporting the project, thanks to Lars Kurverud and the production department at the academy, thanks to Rune Mortensen and Presserommet for beautiful album design, and thanks to everyone who has contributed with sound recordings, video recordings, concert production, communication, translation etc.
Thank you, our dear Njål Ølnes and Erik Dæhlin who always listen, discuss and support.
Thanks to everyone who is curious and searches through listening.
In 2022 we also released the EP «Demanten», containing improvisation-based versions/interpretations of four Sibelius songs from an earlier stage in our process. orcd.co/demanten
