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London Launch Jan 25th

This year the Borealis Festival will be launched in London with a concert at Kings Place on January 25th. The event will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Hear and Now on February 20th.

Programinfo

Informasjon om årets festivalprogram finnes i PROGRAMTABELLEN her på nettsiden, eller leses i FESTIVALPROGRAMMET (PDF). 

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Information about this years' festival program can be found in the PROGRAM TABLE here on the website, or read in the FESTIVAL PROGRAM PDF.

Contact

post (at) borealisfestival.no
+47 40 34 35 36
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Address

Borealis Festival
USF Verftet
Georgernes Verft 12
5011 Bergen
Norway

London Launch Jan 25th

This year the Borealis Festival will be launched in London with a concert at Kings Place on January 25th. The event will be broadcast by the BBC. For press credentials please contact festival commander-in-chief Alwynne Pritchard or press officer Håvard Nyhus.

Highlights include appearances by young noise monsters MoHa!, an escalator performance by Simon Katan and Jennifer Walshe’s THIS IS WHY PEOPLE O.D. ON PILLS - film and live performance.

MoHa! are a funky heavy metal musique concrete duo, using only electric guitar, drums and keyboard. Les Escaliers Mécaniques (Simon Katan) is a piece for twelve performers and two escalators – one up, one down. Students from Trinity College of Music use the escalators to trigger computer synthesized sounds via a video camera tracking system.

Names and headliners for the Bergen part of the festival will be announced at the launch.

Full programme for festival launch at Kings Place January 25th:

20.00 Start
Mark Knoop (piano): Gerhard Stäbler, "von Branntwein und Finsternissen", "Internet 1.6"
Baltazar/Habbestad (flute and electronics)
Simon Katan and members of Trinity College of Music: "Les Escaliers Mècaniques" (Foyer)

Tor Kristen Liseth, film. Documentation of Rolf Borch learning to skateboard for Jennifer Walshe's, "THIS IS WHY PEOPLE O.D. ON PILLS"
Rolf Borch (clarinet): Jennifer Walshe, "THIS IS WHY PEOPLE O.D. ON PILLS"
Mark Knoop (piano): Kunsu Shim, "33 things"; Bryn Harrison, "Quietly Rising"
MoHa! (drum kit/guitar & keyboard)

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From Royal Norwegian Embassy in London

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