For Hauge Kirke

Known for their openness to contemporary music and working across different art forms, the NyNorsk Messingkvintett premieres For Hauge kirke (2024, WP) a new composition by Jan Martin Smørdal in collaboration with Øystein Wyller Odden. The concert is connected to Hauge kirke, a sound art installation by Wyller Odden featuring sounds of electricity and original organ pipes found at Atelier Nord dating from its former use as a place of worship.

Drawing on elements of hymns and church music, the piece attempts to evoke glimpses of the building's history as a site of powerful religious experiences. The idea is that the exhibition and concert can be heard as a kind of aural double exposure, with the sound of the room today superimposed on top of all the imagined sound and music that has filled the room throughout the ages.