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FRISINN 2020/22
Lifting the legacy of a workers club in Stavanger (NO) from the 1940-ies, FRISINN2020 is filling the hall of Folkets Hus (House of the People) with music, dancing, sing-alongs, lectures, food, boxing and tombola.
Brains, Bytes & Bach
Like grains of rice filling every gap, or like a virus spreading across the globe, digital data is invading all parts of our lives. Brains, Bytes & Bach is a performance lecture about the digital world, using an analog powerpoint.
MELTING
Political analysis, fragile music played on wine glasses, and a slowly rotating canvas that fills the space with poetic weightlessness: MELTING is a performance lecture made together with the band Slagr.
Slagr
The band Slagr is Anne Hytta, Katrine Schiøtt and Amund Sjølie Sveen, playing contemporary nordic folk music for hardanger fiddle, cello and vibraphone/tuned glasses.
Deconstructing IKEA
A performative work of music for solo percussion performed on five IKEA plates. As the sound is gradually constructed, the instruments are gradually deconstructed (2005).
Sound of Freedom
A performance about the physics of sound, the rhetoric of weapon production, acoustic bazookas, the ability of war to create meaning, and children songs used for torture (2011).
Horisont
A permanent sound work exhibited at Diehtosiida, the Sami University College in Kautokeino (NO/Sápmi) (2009).
Dager under
Music/sounddesign and loudspeaker-installation for Days beneath, a play by Norwegian playwright Arne Lygre, staged by Ferske Scener at Hålogaland teater in Tromsø (NO).
Tour de Arctic
An interactive sound installation at the top of the world: If you pedal, there is sound. The faster you pedal, the faster the tune.
Hut#6: MiniBo
A site specific, collaborative, interdisciplinary project that explores themes of sustainability and waste, home, real estate, survival, civilization, and man-made ´nature´.
Tree of Knowledge
A tree of secondhand speakers playing newsmedia. Filled with recordings from the «Global War On Terror»; news feeds from Al Jazeera, interrogation recordings from Guantanamo, commercials from the Norwegian Air Force and speeches by George Bush.
Below
A sound work commissioned by Pikene på Broen for the outdoor festival exhibition Sound around the Watch-Towers, (2009).
NING - music and theatre
Amund Sjølie Sveen was a founding member of NING (1997-2015), a radical contemporary music ensemble exploring the physical, theatrical and visual aspects of musical performance.
Works by Kagel, Globokar, Aperghis, Wallin…
Solo performance works for percussion by contemporary composers of the 20th century. Performed by Amund Sjølie Sveen (2005).