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Welcome to Prøverommet at Bergen Internasjonale Kultursenter, an energetic evening offering experimental music, song and performance about joy, challenging power relations, rhythm and poetry.
Artists: Emma Fuchs Sjövall, August Ramstad, Bryn Bowen, Silje B Fresh, Papa Paul and Timoteo Carbone.
Papa Paul aka mr Congolese waist is a multidisciplinary artist. His music is about vibes, love, unity and spreading joy with common sense. Energy bomb on and off the stage, known for his lively performances with powerful vocals and dancing abilities. Papa Paul loves to entertain the audience! With a unique approach to the craft of rhythm and poetry, wordsmith Pål mixes Norwegian, English and Swahili in his expression over instrumentals that leaves an impression. Finally ready to showcase his first solo project since 2019 at Prøverommet.
August (b. 2003) grew up in Bergen, studies philosophy and is active in the cultural and music scene through the band project Superføkk, as well as through his connection to Østre – Hus for eksperimentell og elektronisk lyd. He is a saxophonist with a penchant for unexpected, perverse expressions on the instrument. “The performance is an attempt to understand oneself through staging and will consist of improvisation using extended techniques on the saxophone and various tools run through electronics.”
Emma is a Bergen-based artist who questions hierarchies of knowledge and how we interact with each other and our surroundings. In her interdisciplinary practice with a focus on site-specific performance, she is interested in how we humans are shaped by and relate to different socio-political contexts. She will perform ‘the glorious battle for the right to be a human animal’. In the scenography of the bourgeois decorated hall as terrain, she will perform a battle against capitalism in her own body. With the help of toys for children who are to be active in nature, potatoes that became a necessity here in the 19th century, and helmets that were used in entertaining gladiator games, she tries to challenge boundaries and constructions of power relations that have built themselves into the body.
Timoteo is a musician and composer based in Göteborg, his practice is based on exploring alternative harmonies and intonations through instrument crafting, modern composition techniques and field work research in traditional music. He will present ‘Mode I – Songs for the Dark Lake’, a performance for one musician and live electronics. The concert invites the audience into a sound world influenced by experimental music, early mediaeval polyphony and music archaeology. The concert is performed with a series of specially tuned woodwinds, stringed instruments and percussions that were handcrafted by the artist from traditional and experimental instrument designs.
BRYN IS MAKING ART. AT 37 YEARS YOUNG HE’S SO FAR BEEN MAKING POETRY, MUSIC VIDEOS, COLLAGE AND RELEASING MUSIC WITH HIS BANDS THE REAL JOBS & THE SHALFONTS AS WELL AS RUNNING THE RECORD LABEL GIANT MANILOW RECORDS. AND HE’S IN SOME MOVIES. ALSO HE’S BEEN DOODLIN’ AND ADDING TEXT TO THE DOODLES. HE’S PLANNING TO SHOW YOU THE DOODLES AND READ YOU THE TEXTS WITH SOME CHOICE OF MUSIC PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND. HOPEFULLY THE IMAGES MIXED WITH THE TEXT ARE GOING TO MOVE YOU IN THE GOOD WAY.
Born 5 billion light years B.C. (originally) from the Sacred land of Go Go. Today: Ground worker in the physical plane for Holy Spirit.
Intention: Healing
Method: Shamanic vocal impro
Channelling from the heart (door to the divine)
Motivation: heal the world / connect humankind to the divine again
At service
P.S. this is not a show.
Prøverommet has been running since 1998, originally in the bar of BIT’s former venue Teatergarasjen for 10 years, now popping up at various venues throughout the seasons. It’s a social and low threshold environment to try out new artistic material in front of an audience using any medium: dance, theatre, poetry, visual art, music… The programme is open to everyone to apply or attend, with at least 10 events per year. Almost 2500 projects have been presented so far!
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