Borealis 2011

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Bjørnar Habbestad, Pascal Baltazar & Benjamin Maumus

Bjørnar Habbestad (b.1976) performs, improvises and creates music and sound art. Recent activity includes the norwegian premiere of Luigi Nono`s "Das Atmende Klarsein" with the Danish Radio Chamber Choir, a duo project with composer/percussionist Burkhardt Beins, "telart" - a Habbestad&Larsson sound installation for BGO1 at Bergen Kunstmuseum and concerts with ensembles LEMUR, POLYGON and N ENSEMBLE.  Habbestad is educated in music, philosophy and art history from Bergen, London and Amsterdam.

Pascal Baltazar, (b.1976) is an intermedia composer, working with sound, light and more, in performances or installations. His artistic concerns address spatial and temporal perception of sound, relation to the body and musical gesture. Therefore he develops his own audio-digital gestural instrument, and also draws interest to intermediality as an extension of his musical statement. He studied electroacoustic composition at the national conservatory of Toulouse, and obtained a masters of philosophy (aesthetics) on music. His works have been commissioned by organizations including the Présences Électroniques (Paris), Radio France festival (Montpellier), Borealis (Bergen, Norway), Videomedeja (Novi Sad, Serbia),  Space+Place (Berlin), Synthèse (Bourges, France), reBonds (Albi, France) & Novelum (Toulouse, France) 

Benjamin Maumus (b.1981) uses microphones and speakers as creation tools, exploring the prospects offered by sound spatialization and multimicrophonic recording, searching the relations between sound, place and context, for many studio projects or perfoming arts. His diversified activities illustrate his versatile approaches : creation, sound management and design, spatialization, sound research, artistic collaboration,composer assistant, artistic direction, recording and mixing, teaching.