Media
For one - for many - for all
The artistic research project Emotional machines – composing for unstable media concludes with two complementary public artistic presentations taking place in bergen in June 2021; a time based stage production presented by BIT Teatergarasjen at Cornerteatret and a gallery exhibition presented by and at Lydgalleriet. The presentations are considered connected and have the common title For one – for many – for all.
Performers: 15 kinetic figures, Alwynne Pritchard, Caroline Eckly, Jostein Gundersen. Musical and movement material performed by humans have been developed with the performers
Kinetic figures/composition/sound design/choreography/system development: Thorolf Thuestad
Lights: Silje Grimstad
Custumes: Maria Victoria Høvring Høeg
Producer: Aistė Žumbakytė
Construction assistance/talks: Roar Sletteland
I thank all part-takers for their immense creative force in developing For one- for many - for all
Supervisors: Trond Lossius and Juliana Hodkinson
Technical producer: M12 Kultur
Co-producers: The University of Bergen, BIT Teatergarasjen, Lydgalleriet and M12 Kultur
Stage technicians: Snorre Rønning Mandal, Runar Gåserud
Supported by: The University of Bergen, The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme(NARP), Arts Council Norway, Bergen Kommune and The Norwegian Society of Composers. For one - for many - for all is part of Thorolf Thuestads Ph.D. in artistic research at The Grieg Academy, Department of music, The University of Bergen.
Underground
Underground1 is a large-scale stage production featuring 30 technicians, musicians and actors inspired by Franz Kafka's writing. It is a hybrid film/theatre production directed by Philippe Vincent, script by Philippe Vincent, Alwynne Prithcard, Thorolf Thuestad and Anne Ferret, created and produced by the French company Scènes Théâtre Cinéma and Neither Nor based in Bergen, Norway. For the production I composed the score and created the sound design/live foley together with Alwynne Pritchard as well as performing as an actor and developing control systems for motorized set pieces and matte paintings.
Korpus
Korpus was premiered at Lydgalleriet, Østre, at the Borealis festival on March the 12th, 2015.
Korpus, for multichannel ambisonic speaker rig, pendulum speaker and two performers, observers the human body with its pain and pleasure, its breath and its blood. It is discordant and absurd, curious and untouchable. It has order and disorder. Presented in glorious 3d sound.
Movements:
1: Korpus
2: The number five
Intermission
3: Lung with chain
4: Once important but no longer important
5: Foliage
Performers:
Alwynne Pritchard and Claudia Klasicka
hamlet machine
Neither Nor has collaborated with the French company Scènes Théâtre Cinéma on a production of Heiner Müller’s Die Hamletmaschine, which premiered at the Théâtre du Point du Jour, Lyon, on January 21st, 2016. Further shows took place 22nd, 23rd, 26th – 30th January and on 2nd – 6th February.
Directors: David Mambouch and Philippe Vincent.
Sound design/music: Neither Nor.
Scenography: Benjamin Lebreton.
Sound: Rodolphe Moreira.
Lights: Stéphane Rouaud.
Costumes: Cathy Ray.
Stage manager: Hubert Arnaud.
Assistant director: Mayalen Otondo.
With: Alwynne Pritchard, Thorolf Thuestad, Philippe Vincent, Anne Ferret and Camille Roy.
An index of collisions
The kinetic sculptures of An Index of Collisions at play during an exibithion at Lydgalleriet in Bergen.