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Murder Ballads – The Positive Reinforcement Campaign
Jessie Marino I Pinquins I Inga Margrete Aas I Emilia Dörr
Folk ballads about murdered women have travelled over time between Britain and America. Many were preserved in the Appalachian Mountains on the USA’s East Coast. In the second volume of her Murder Ballads series, The Positive Reinforcement Campaign (2023), composer Jessie Marino shifts from a playful focus on expanded practice, prominent in her previous output, to reimagining traditional murder ballads using a combination of folk music from Appalachia, electronic soundscapes, Sacred Harp Hymns and structured improvisations developed in close collaboration with the percussion trio Pinquins and Inga Margrete Aas. During the performance, dancer/performance artist Emilia Dorr serves tennis balls into a black abyss, metaphorically and literally voicing anger and frustration through the lens of sport.
Jessie Marino, PInquins, Inga Margrete Aas and Emilia Dörr. Photo: Oliver Matlok.
A scene from Murder Ballads. Photo: Heinz Bunse.
Composer, dramaturgy, fiddle, electronics, voice
- Jessie Marino
Performers
- Pinquins (Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen, Sigrun Rogstad Gomnæs, Jennifer Torrence), percussion, electronics and voice
- Inga Margrete Aas, double bass and voice
- Emilia Dörr, tennisspiller
- Karoline Trondsen, trombone
- Petter Winroth, trombone
In collaboration with
- SPOR Festival
- Donaueschinger Musiktage
Supported by
- The Creative Europe Programme of the European Union as part of Sounds Now
Sound engineering
- Magnus Neergaard
