INSOMNIA 2013
23.10. - 26.10.2013 / Tromsø, Norway
Insomnia festival mission and goal is to provide Tromsø with good cutting edge music and art. As before we want to give our audience a variety of good music in any musical styles. Our main venues for this edition is Driv, Verdensteatret Kino, Kurant, Tvibit and some outside concerts and art pieces in the city environment.ECAS supported events during the festival:
Live sets & performances23.10. - 26.10.2013
| Date | 23.10.2013 |
| Action | Project: with guitarist Kristian Olstad and drummer Erland Dahlen, experiments with distributed performances, playing together over the internet from different locations in Tromso |
| Participants | Mørk |
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| Sponsoring Partners | Insomnia |
| Insomnia print program '13 | |
| Online References |
http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/artists-2013-2/ |
| Description | |
| Date | 24.10.2013 |
| Action | Performance |
| Participants | Demdike Stare (Manchester) |
| Location | Verdensteatret |
| Sponsoring Partners | Insomnia |
| Insomnia print program '13 | |
| Online References |
http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/artists-2013-2/ http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/demdike-stare-manchester/ |
| Description | Demdike Stare is the occult themed collaboration between Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker. They will be the official opening of the festival at the old cinema Verdensteatret Cinematek. Sit down, relax and go with the music! |
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| Date | 24.10.2013 |
| Action | Live set |
| Participants | Xosar (The Hague) |
| Location | DRIV |
| Sponsoring Partners | Insomnia |
| Insomnia print program '13 | |
| Online References |
http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/artists-2013-2/ http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/xosar-den-haag/ |
| Description | The American born, Netherlands based producer’s beguiling sound is a mix of unnerving atmospheres and uplifting emotions, keenly bolted onto raw house and techno tempos. |
| Date | 24.10.2013 |
| Action | Live set |
| Participants | TM404 (Stockholm) |
| Location | DRIV |
| Sponsoring Partners | Insomnia |
| Insomnia print program '13 | |
| Online References |
http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/artists-2013-2/ http://web.archive.org/web/20130826112557/http://www.insomniafestival.no/tm404-stockholm/ |
| Description | TM404 - a unique live project from Andreas Tilliander. With a new alias, TM404, Andreas Tilliander has created enjoyable ambient dub simmering with life and details. The songs have all been recorded live, in real time in the studio. |
| Date | 24.10.2013 |
| Action | |
| Participants | ATEQ (Berlin) |
| Location | DRIV |
| Sponsoring Partners | Insomnia |
| Insomnia print program '13 | |
| Online References |
http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/artists-2013-2/ http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/ateq/ |
| Description | The musical project ATEQ is marked by recurring gentle waves of electronic loops seamlessly integrated into each other, growing into a unique feeling sound crawling toward its climax. |
| Date | 25.10.2013 |
| Action | |
| Participants | Legowelt |
| Location | DRIV |
| Sponsoring Partners | Insomnia |
| Insomnia print program '13 | |
| Online References |
http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/artists-2013-2/ |
| Description | Danny Wolfers is truly one of a kind - a producer and performer who spans many different scenes with ease and always in his own unique style a world away from the usual hype or trends of any given day. |
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| Date | 25.10.2013 |
| Action | |
| Participants | Shed (Berlin) |
| Location | DRIV |
| Sponsoring Partners | Insomnia |
| Insomnia print program '13 | |
| Online References |
http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/artists-2013-2/ http://web.archive.org/web/20130827011025/http://www.insomniafestival.no/shed-berlin/ |
| Description | Shed is a man of action, a living example how to reinvent oneself again and again within the boundaries of electronic music. At the same time, Shed does not follow shallow trends. |
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| Date | 26.10.2013 |
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| Participants | VRIL |
| Location | DRIV |
| Sponsoring Partners | Insomnia |
| Insomnia print program '13 | |
| Online References |
http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/artists-2013-2/ http://web.archive.org/web/20130920212059/http://www.insomniafestival.no/vril-hannoverberlin/ |
| Description | Inspired from the fathers of Detroit techno does Vril draw his musical energy from the bottom of mechanized industrial world. |
Environmental Auditors 23.10.2013
| Date | 23.10.2013 |
| Action | concert, special radio mix |
| Participants | Agnes Hvizdalek, Daniel Lercher, Danielle Dahl, Rosi Rehformen, Rudolf Terland Bjørnerem, Vinzenz Schwab, Simon Daniel Tegnander, Nasra Ali Omar / artistic direction: Daniel Lercher / idea and concept: Susanna Niedermayr and Christian Hollingsaeter |
| Location | Old Mack Quarters, Tromsø |
| Sponsoring Partners | ORF / musikprotokoll / Insomnia |
| Online References |
http://musikprotokoll.orf.at/en/2013/work/environmental-auditors-troms%C3%B8 http://musikprotokoll.orf.at/en/ecas-musikprotokoll |
| Description |
When everyday life invades music: eight musicians, eight environmental auditors from Austria and Norway invited visitors to listen very carefully when their instruments joined in the orchestra of ambient environmental sounds, improvising freely and focusing on the current auditory experience. This during musikprotokoll 2013 formed the starting point for a series of short concerts on the Schloßberg hill in Graz, at different sounding locations. Detached from the context of common performance practice in the concert hall, music became amenable to a new experience. The ÖNCZkekvist project gave rise to an active exchange between the Austrian and Norwegian improvisation scene, an exchange that was now boosted by and continued together with the ECAS partner festival Insomnia in Tromso, where the environmental auditors performed in a recently closed brewery at the end of October 2013. In a special radio mix for the ICAS Radio Show from Insomnia Festival on the 25th of October the soundscapes from Graz and Tromsø were intertwined. ( - Post Scriptum September 2015: After their sonic investigations on the Schlossberg hill in Graz at musikprotokoll 2013 and a recently closed brewery in Tromso at Insomnia 2013 the environmental auditors at the ICAS Festival in Dresden in Spring 2015 sonically investigated the territory around Festspielhaus Hellerau, with a side trip through the Festspielhaus Hellerau. Afterwards they again did a special radio mix out of the recordings which was then broadcasted in the ICAS Radio Show about the ICAS Festival on 8th of May 2015. - ) |
Workshop: Working through the insulation - wearable audio computing 21.10. - 22.10.2013
| Date | 21.10. - 22.10.2013 |
| Action | Workshop: Working through the insulation - wearable audio computing |
| Participants | Workshop: Locomofon |
| Location | TVIBIT |
| Sponsoring Partners | Insomnia |
| Insomnia print program '13 | |
| Online References |
http://web.archive.org/web/20140329121052/http://www.insomniafestival.no/working-through-the-insulation/ |
| Description | In the Tromsø winter, social interacting gets challenged when language, sound and touch competes with the thick, bulky clothing northern life requires. In this workshop, we will play with smart fabrics and physical computing to see if we can make our padded spheres less private by allowing them to be a basis for shared musical interfacing. The workshop will double as a general introduction to soft circuits and the Arduino platform. No prior skills needed, but basic knowledge of electronics and synthesizers might come in handy. Bring a pair of scissors and whatever clothing you would like to modify. The workshop will be held by Locomofon, a small company specialized in custom made effect effects and electronic gadgets. |
ICAS Radio25.10.2013
