BLC 2024/25
Welcome to a new season of Borealis Listening Club (BLC) in Studio 207 (Strandgaten 207)! Once a month we gather to listen to exploratory music and sounds, and with our guests we reflect on music making and experimental sound practices. Our guests this season are mentors and participants from our mentor programme Borealis Ung Komponist. We’ll get to know them all better through the sounds and music they bring to the listening club throughout this season.
Dates:
Tuesday 10 September 2024, 19:00–21:00
Tuesday 22 October 2024, 19:00–21:00
Tuesday 26 November 2024, 19:00–21:00
Tuesday 21 January 2025, 19:00–21:00
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ABOUT BLC
The Borealis Listening Club (BLC) is a monthly free event that gathers adventurous listeners to simply: listen to music and sound. BLC is an informal gathering, open to everyone. It’s a space created to listen together, and talk about the music and sounds that occupy and challenge us.
Borealis Listening Club is usually organised in our project space: Studio 207 in Strandgaten 207. We serve free coffee and tea, and there is always fresh popcorn on the tables. You can also purchase Borealis merch and fun sodas if you wish.
HISTORY
Borealis Listening Club was established in November 2015. The festival wanted to be more present and visible throughout the year and not just a curiosity that appeared for 5 days once a year. Truly inspired by the deeper listening often mentioned in experimental music, we created this club where people can gather, play music, listen and talk together. We also dedicated ourselves to bring musicians and artists as guests to bring new perspectives into the conversations about music, and to create a platform where people can get to know all the exceptional artists working in the experimental field. Some of the previous guests of Borealis Listening Club are Pauline Oliveros, Knut Vaage, Rebecka Ahvenniemi, Freja Bäckman, Smerz, Øyvind Torvund and more. In season 4 we had a new theme for each gathering, manoeuvring our way through themes like Music for Voice and Weird Instruments to Protest, Isolation, Togetherness and Life. For season 5 we invited food enthusiasts from Bergen to create a tiny edible experiment to spice up the listening, and we munched our way through local veggie snacks from chef Aimee Cordeiro at Bien Basar, Soy Sauce Caramel ice cream from Hallaisen, and a garlic bread made in Chinese-Italian hybrid from Hoggorm and Michelle Zhao behind No Sweet Sour and restaurant Banzha.