All Ears 2023, January 13-15, MUNCH, Oslo/Norway
For the past 20 years All Ears festival for improvised music has presented the most cutting edge avant garde music within the international scene for improvised music. By curating a diverse program, with an array of improvised music, the festival wishes to gather music lovers both used and new to the genre, inviting to a festival dedicated to the art of being present in the now.
All Ears festival for improvised music has a tradition of being curated by touring musicians and is therefore known to know the pulse of the international scene. The current curators of the festival are Anja Lauvdal, Christian Winther & Natali Abrahamsen Garner.
In 2022 the festival will be presented at the Munch museum, the music formed in the museum’s dedicated concert halls.
Venue / Directions
The festival will take place at the new Munch-museum in Bjørvika, in the city centre of Oslo. All public transportation to Oslo Central Station, and walk 4-5 minutes towards the fjord. You can’t miss it!
Sunday January 15 14:00 (13:00 Doors)
Stina Stjern + Elina Waage Michalsen (NO)
Fredrik Rasten (NO)
FREDRIK RASTEN
Fredrik Rasten is a guitarist and composer based in Oslo and Berlin. He loves exploring the complexities of tone and harmony with unusual tuning systems. Live, he often re-tunes his instrument in real time, to create warm and fluctuating resonances. He is currently active in the Berlin based collective Harmonic Space Orchestra, the duo Pip with Torstein Lavik Larsen, and as a solo artist. Rasten’s recordings have been published on labels such as SOFA, Edition Wandelweiser, Ftarri, Shhpuma and INSUB.
STINA STJERN AND ELINA WAAGE MIKALSEN
Stina Stjern and Elina Waage Mikalsen play a rare collaboration mixing analogue and digital technology, improvised music and memory.
Stina Stjern (Stina Moltu) embraces jazz, art-pop and free improvised experimental music. A recurring theme is an examination of humanity and her love for cassette tapes as a sound source. Her latest release, The Devil EP (2020), is a personal interpretation of the tarot card of the same name.
A former member of Supervixen, Stina plays guitar and cassettes in Norwegian artist Susanna’s project Brotherhood of Our Lady, and some of her work with cassettes can be heard on Susanna’s new album Elevation (2022). Stina is also a part of Oslo’s coolest improv-collective, DNA?AND?.
Elina Waage Mikalsen is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Tromsø in Northern Norway, currently living in Oslo. She works with performance, textiles, installation and text, in connection to sound and sound practice.
Elina’s artistic work is strongly intertwined with her Norwegian and Sami affiliations. The meeting point between these two cultures in her own family paints a picture of the power relations that haunt the society as a whole.
In her sound work she often combines her voice with field recordings, electronics and self-built instruments to create sound spaces that sit somewhere between reality and fantasy. It is the emotional and narrative properties of sound that interests her, and how it can function as a time machine which causes time to collapse and sets both future and past in motion.
