NODE / Brian Cliff Olguin for Ultima
Classic Album Sundays
Listening session and Q/A with Julia Wolfe
Listening club Classic Album Sundays comes to Ultima for the second year running, this time to the audiophile club Gehør, located in the former Nomaden Club and Khartoum Contemporary Art Center. The audience is invited to listening to a classic album from start to finish, on a top notch audiophile stereo system. Guests with a connection to the music discuss and tell stories behind the record. Audience members can also chip in.
Tonight we present the Pullizer-Award winning solo album Anthracite Fields (2015) by composer Julia Wolfe, closely connected to the oratorio Fire in my mouth being performed at this year’s Ultima on 19 September. Wolfe herself will be in conversation with CAS’s resident Oslo host Kent Erlend Horne. Wolfe was an original founder of the new music ensemble Bang On A Can and is a leading figure in New York’s downtown avantgarde scene.
Read more about Classic Album Sundays’ various events around the world.
Programme
18.00 Doors open – warm up with music selection related to today’s album
19.00 Album talk (Horne, Wolfe)
19.45 Album playback (59:36)
20.45 Album talk including audience comments and Qs
Audio menu
CD player: Soulution 541
Mixer: Pioneer DJM-A9
Cables: Midas Reference Flavia
Power conditioner: Isol-8
Active speakers: 2 x NNNN Gage 60 + 4 x NNNN Comium 30
Active subwoofer: NNNN Devor 23
Hi-fi system assembled in collaboration with the Norwegian speaker manufacturer NNNN and cable company Midas Reference.
Julia Wolfe. Photo: Peter Serling
Anthracite Fields - album cover
In collaboration with
- Classic Album Sundays Oslo
