Listen-Up!

Composers in conversation

Saturday 12 September, at 11:00–14:00

Free

Registration required · Lunch included · In English

Listen-Up! brings together composers from across musical genres and generations to share insights drawn directly from their own creative practice.

How is music made, and under what conditions? Which rituals, tools and spaces do artists return to when composing? With whom do they collaborate, and what shapes their musical language?

During the event, composers gather in groups of four across different rooms at TONO-huset to explore these questions together. The conversations are recorded and later developed into an audio zine.

As a visitor, you are invited to move freely from room to room and listen in – picking up one thread here, following another conversation there, or staying in one place and hearing where it leads. Afterwards, everyone is invited to continue the conversation over lunch.

Participating artists include Agnes Ida Pettersen, Bjørn Erik Haugen, Edvin Østergaard, Eilert Tøsse, Ewa Jacobsson, Guro Skumsnes Moe, Hjalmar Bjerner, Magdaléna Manderlová, Maria Dybbroe, Martin Hirsti-Kvam, Mike McCormick, and Therese Birkelund Ulvo.

Now in its second edition, Listen-Up! grows out of When Music Takes Shape, a research programme and publication by Arts Council Norway in which musicians reflect on artistic processes and the conditions for music-making in Norway today.