bedrock

Rosendal Teater, 2023

I was invited by Trondheim Voices to create sculptural costumes for the concert perfomance Bedrock.
The unique vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices creates visual concert experiences, opportunity spaces where you can listen with your eyes and see with your ears.

So I build
Brick by brick
While walls are tumbling

What is important now? What do we long for? Where do we find something to lean against, something to hold on to - our bedrock? This has become the pivot point for the lyrics in Bedrock. The music is composed by the ensemble's singers, and is performed in a mix of improvisation and fixed structure, of acoustic and electronic sound collages.

The human voice is a flexible and elastic instrument, and Trondheim Voices stretches the boundaries further, through live electronic processing of the voices with their specially designed effect controllers, Maccatrol, developed by Asle Karstad.

In Bedrock, images, scenography, improvisation and composition are woven together into a sensual whole, creating a space where we can feel a connection between each other and within ourselves.

b e d r o c k

2023

Trondheim Voices, singers:
Sissel Vera Pettersen, Tone Åse, Siri Gjære, Anita Kaasbøll, Live Maria Roggen, Kari Eskild Havenstrøm, Ingrid Lode, Torunn Sævik

Kompostions: Trondheim Voices
Text: Siri Gjære
Sounddesign: Asle Karstad
Lightdesign: Ingrid Skanke Høsøien
Videodesign: Oscar Udbye
Costumedesign: Tone Myskja
Maccatrol: Asle Karstad og Arnvid Lau Karstad
Producer: Ida Eilertsen
Musical process leader: Tone Åse
Artistic concept / leadership: Sissel Vera Pettersen

Photos: Thor Egil Leirtrø / Tone Myskja