Borealis 2009

MOHA! & HAYOSH/VAHTRA - FIRE&IGNORANCE

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Venue: Bergen Kunstahall NO.5

Fire&Ignorance is a collaboration between the Norwegian musicians Anders Hana and Morten J. Olsen (of MoHa!) and artists Idan Hayosh (Israel) and Anu Vahtra (Estonia). Music, lights, amps and lamps. A high-density dialogue of sonic and visual performance that involves the audience in a physical experience of definite power and energy. The collaboration is balancing on the border between music and art fields that by overlapping create an engaging unity. In a close exchange, composed sound and light formations merge and establish something very clear and consistent.

MoHa! (Hana/Olsen) use a set-up of amps, cabinets, drums, keyboard, guitar, electronics and computer. Hayosh/Vahtra has welded together a grid system that has about 30 lamps attached. The lamps are played manually on switch boxes built by the artists and the piece is constructed/composed/coreographed jointly. The resulting piece will so to speak not be an automated or interactive “techshow” but rather an audio/visual instrumental piece on all levels, with integrated custom or selfmade technology/instruments.