Kunsu Shim

Kunsu Shim

Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim in conversation:

GS: Winter in Bergen: darkness, rain, a crack of sunshine (only) – best time of the year for music?

KS: Music seems to reflect something, in which it can be reflected – light, darkness, rain etc., but for me, music itself is far from those things. So, there is no best time for music. But a specific state of environment, for example, a dark, rainy and windy day gives a certain sense of sonic circumstance, that could be listened to as music itself.

GS: I agree, and I see music needs surroundings that let you „hear“, for example a silent room, a quiet hall, a night that is full of stars – no wind, no rain, and a comfortable temperature. This I would take as the usual presuppositions for being able to get a deep musical reception. I also see a chance for music in an environment, that is „loud“, as I'd like to try with my composition „HELIOS NORDWÄRTS“, that implants music into the harbour of Bergen with its traffic, its market, and its daily weather conditions. I'd like to accentuate everyday life with musical sounds that makes the ears – hopefully – open again, and let us realise that we are constantly bombarded by everlasting and omnipresent ambient music.

KS: I am curious to know how you are going to put together all the differences? What we are doing as composers, is (re)organizing the senses. Sounds in the environments are always functional. For me it is essential that sounds should be (re)born as a sensual body free from their daily-life-functions. I also did several open-air projects. One of them was called „here - open air“ as a performance with bicycles, fire, an artificial moon and musicians. The other one was called „places with airhorn“, an open-air performance for two weeks, in which I was playing just a single long sustained sound on a ship horn – but very gently – at a certain time of day. Perhaps you are trying to mark „the environment“, such as the fish market in Bergen, which turns a place into a „happening“; I am trying to be a part of the environment, I want to be involved in something taking place. For me music is still something open. The sense of sounds could be completely newly organized, if we could find the possibilities...

GS: ...and what music means to us. Most of your music – for example especially those for performance halls – leads the listener to a kind of inner sound world, you concentrate on listening to sounds that exist in the present - lets us hear their existence. And much of my music combines experiences of all our senses – listening, seeing, smelling, feeling... I am very much interested in engaging musicians in making music at a specific site – as Bergen's harbour or the former textile factory in Salhus – working with the existing sounds of those sites, and confronting them with added sounds composed of rotating helicopters, horns from fire engines, the rattling of weaving machines etc., in combination with instrumental musical structures created by brass players, and young people with traditional string instruments etc.

KS: I am also very interested in the various sources of klangkörper - sound bodies. The noise of helicopters in the sky is of course not comparable to one single tone on a piano. These are two very different worlds. But what appeals to me is that there are two (or more) worlds in one universe. Don't you, too? A crack of sunshine in winter in Bergen expresses itself as much as the striking brightness during the summer in Busan, where I was born. There are always specific beauties in any kind of environment.

Post & Mulder

  Friday
Tid Artist Type event Sted Billettpris
20:00 Luke Fowler Exhibition Bergen Kunsthall
  Sunday
Tid Artist Type event Sted Billettpris
18:00 Concert/performance Griegakademiet Prøvesalen
20:00 Concert/performance Altona wine bar, Augustin Hotel
  Tuesday
Tid Artist Type event Sted Billettpris
Theme Tune,Theme Tune
13:00 Film - Kino Borealis Landmark
15:30 Gerhard Eckel Exhibition Rom 8
17:00 Mette Karlsvik Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
18:00 Gerhard Stäbler Admiral Hotel / Bryggen
19:00 Else Olsen Storesund Concert/performance Bergen Pianoforretning
19:30 Exhibition Bergen Pianoforretning
20:00 Sigurd Fischer Olsen,Ricardo Odriozola & Friends,Siegfried Kutterer Concert/performance Kalmarhuset leiligheter
20:00 Ricardo Odriozola & Friends See below,Logen,Landmark,USF Verftet,Salhus Tricotagefabrik
21:00
22:00 Thomas Ankersmit,Phill Niblock Concert/performance Landmark
  Wednesday
Tid Artist Type event Sted Billettpris
Øyvind Skarbø,Tor Kristian Liseth,Jennifer Walshe Concert/performance,Film - Kino Borealis See below,Salhus Tricotagefabrik,Rådhuset,Landmark
Siegfried Kutterer,Domenico Melchiorre,Szilard Buti DNB Lars Hillesgate 30,Salhus Tricotagefabrik
13:00 Film - Kino Borealis Landmark
15:30 David Helbich,Gerhard Eckel Rom 8
17:00 Kjersti Rorgemoen Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
18:30 GNEIS,Rolf Borch,Knut Vaage,Ricardo Odriozola & Friends,Kunsu Shim,Gerhard Stäbler Salhus Tricotagefabrik
20:00 Ricardo Odriozola & Friends See below,Logen,Landmark,USF Verftet,Salhus Tricotagefabrik
21:00
  Thursday
Tid Artist Type event Sted Billettpris
Siegfried Kutterer,Domenico Melchiorre,Szilard Buti DNB Lars Hillesgate 30,Salhus Tricotagefabrik
13:00 Film - Kino Borealis Landmark
17:00 Erlend O. Nødtvedt Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
18:00 John Tilbury Bergen Kunsthall,Landmark
19:30 Apartment House,Kunsu Shim,Gerhard Stäbler Kunstmuseum, Stenersen
20:00 Ricardo Odriozola & Friends See below,Logen,Landmark,USF Verftet,Salhus Tricotagefabrik
20:30 Knut Vaage,Casiokids,Kerry Yong Kunstmuseum, Stenersen
21:00
22:30 Casiokids,Kerry Yong Landmark
23:30 Idiot Switch Concert/performance Landmark
  Friday
Tid Artist Type event Sted Billettpris
11:30 Fidan Aghayeva,Mai Goto,Chihiro Ito,Annabel Guaita,Steve Reich,Gilius van Bergeijk,Post & Mulder Bergen Pianoforretning
13:00 Film - Kino Borealis Landmark
15:30 Anders Førisdal,Laurence Crane,Gerhard Eckel Rom 8 Free entrance
17:00 Øyvind Rimbereid Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
17:45 Else Olsen Storesund Bergen Pianoforretning Free entrance
18:00 John Tilbury,Michael Duch Bergen Pianoforretning 80/60
19:30 Logos Foundation Exhibition Logen
20:00 BIT20 Percussion,Anders Førisdal,Apartment House,Szilard Buti,Domenico Melchiorre,Siegfried Kutterer,Kunsu Shim,Robyn Schulkowsky Concert/performance Logen
20:00 Ricardo Odriozola & Friends See below,Logen,Landmark,USF Verftet,Salhus Tricotagefabrik
21:00
23:00 Magda Mayas & Tony Buck Logen
24:00 Trondheim Jazzorkester,Kim Myhr Concert/performance Logen
  Saturday
Tid Artist Type event Sted Billettpris
Øyvind Skarbø,Tor Kristian Liseth,Jennifer Walshe Concert/performance,Film - Kino Borealis See below,Salhus Tricotagefabrik,Rådhuset,Landmark
12:00 Exhibition Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
13:00 Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek Free entrance
15:00 Collegiûm Mûsicûm,Gerhard Stäbler,Kunsu Shim 180/150
15:00 Knut Vaage Concert/performance 180/150
20:00 Ricardo Odriozola & Friends See below,Logen,Landmark,USF Verftet,Salhus Tricotagefabrik
22:00 The Chap Landmark
22:00 DYGONG Concert/performance Landmark
23:00 The Chap Concert/performance Landmark
24:00 Landmark