Bio:

Fredrik Rasten (born 1988) is a guitarist and composer based in Oslo and Berlin. He is primarily focusing on musical exploration of just intonation and related sound phenomena, and in his work he is reaching for an actively listening state wherein to intuitively explore the complexities of tone and harmony.

On the guitar he is applying real time retuning of the instrument, vocal shadings and different preparations to create warm and fluctuating resonances.

As a composer he is mostly creating music for smaller ensembles and collaborative projects where the ongoing exploration of pitch relations is guiding the work, while also finding inspiration in early music, folk traditions and reductionist expressions.

Other elements influencing his work include ideas of music as social, non-hierarchical practices, and essential philosophical conundrums, such as the elusive relationship between mind and matter.

He is currently active in the Berlin based collective Harmonic Space Orchestra, the duo Pip with Torstein Lavik Larsen and with his solo project, among other things.

His compositions have been performed in Montreal, New York, Buenos Aires, Auckland (NZ), Berlin, Prague, Oslo and other places, by vocal ensemble EKMELES, performers Judith Hamann, Émilie Girard-Charest, Johnny Chang, Johan Lindvall, Miroslav Beinhauer and others.

Rasten’s recording output has been published on labels such as SOFA, Edition Wandelweiser, Ftarri, Shhpuma and INSUB.

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Contact, booking and other inquiries: fredrikrasten(at)gmail(dot)com

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Other platforms:

Bandcamp     /     Instagram     /     SoundCloud     /     YouTube

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News…

Here are two recent podcast episodes where I share thoughts about just intonation, listening, composition, improvisation and collaboration etc., one for Soundmaking podcast, one for Ny Musikk, in conversation with Jennifer Torrence.

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My newest solo work Lineaments is out on SOFA music:

‘Music for Sixth-tone Harmonium’ is out now on Warm Winters ltd:

Other more or less recent stuff..

Six Moving Guitars video for Louth Contemporary Music Society‘s online festival ‘We Sing for the Future’

The debut record of Alasdair Roberts and Völvur is out now on Drag City! New Roberts-originals, old Scottish ballads and Norwegian folk songs fused with experimental, minimal, jazzy, textural etc. etc.

In connection to that release I made this version of a verse from ‘Song Composed in August’ by Robert Burns

‘four parallel rivers’, played by Johan Lindvall is out now on Edition Wandelweiser Records

The solo release and piece ‘Svevning’ is out now on INSUB records

Beautiful video footage of the premiere of my piece Concord for 6th tone harmonium and electric guitars is now out on YouTube:

A recording of my piece Delve II realized by myself on 12-string guitar and Léo Dupleix on spinet is out now on INSUB records:

 

A home video version of Pip‘s Possible Worlds:

 

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Press clippings:

Fredrik Rasten’s 51-minute Concord pairs the harmonium with two fretless electric guitars to generate a vivid collision of just-intoned frequencies that spread out in endlessly shifting waves. Even the simplest interval slips through conventional categories like major or minor, and as the layers pile up, the harmonics seem to multiply exponentially, with long, graceful phasing giving way to powerful beating effects. It’s powerfully acousmatic and weirdly tactile; at times you can almost feel your ears growing warmer from all the friction. Extended immersion in its waters is at once rapturous and completely disorienting.

(PHILIP SHERBURNE, FUTURISM RESTATED, on Concord / Music For Sixth-tone Harmonium)

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The two specular acts of Svevning are nothing more than the zero degree, the distillation of what Rasten’s sensitivity had let emerge from the very beginning: an acoustic guitar as a treasure trove of complementary vibrations and resonances, adjusted with the same care and patience that a watchmaker would dedicate to an ancient clock, in order to cross, one gesture after another, its entire timbral and tonal spectrum.

(MICHELE PALOZZO, ESOTEROS, on Svevning)

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The mood in Rasten’s material is both light and dark. The sound itself is attractive and fragile. This is music that poses questions about the hectic and bombastic, and turns the attention towards the meaning of the details.

(ARILD ANDERSEN, JAZZ I NORGE, on Svevning)

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The six voices bounce small ideas off one another, thoroughly in conversation, and ultimately create a complex fabric of sound.

(SPENCER FRIEDMAN, FREEJAZZBLOG, on Six Moving Guitars)

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Press photos:

Photo: Christian Strand

Photo: Mareike Yin-Yee Lee

Photo: Mareike Yin-Yee Lee

Photo: Luke Fowler

Photo: Torstein Lavik Larsen

Photo: Elin Terese Osjord

Photo: Mareike Yin-Yee Lee

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Live schedule:

May 14: Pip, Hudebni 3, Prague

May 15: Pip, Experimentik, Berlin

June 7-13: Léo Dupleix & Fredrik Rasten, concerts in France TBA

June 22: Alasdair Roberts & Fredrik Rasten, Motvind festival 2024, Numedal

July 6: Fredrik Rasten solo, GNM Ruhr / treff, Essen

September 8: Fredrik Rasten solo, poetry\\\sound / Studio im HOCHHAUS, Berlin

September 18: Rebecca Lane / Catherine Lamb / Fredrik Rasten plays ‘solos with support’: harmonic space music in the intersection between the solo and the trio format, Sowieso, Berlin

October 10: Fredrik Rasten solo, Lineaments, TBA, Helsinki

October 11: Six Moving Guitars, The Sound of Sipoo International Guitar Festival 2024, Sipoo Äänet

October 15: Oren Ambarchi / Fredrik Rasten, live soundtrack to ‘Dragon’s Return’, Viernulvier, Ghent, Belgium

October 16: Johnny Chang / Catherine Lamb / Fredrik Rasten performs Rasten’s ‘nine small pieces for two to four string players’, KM28, Berlin

 

 

 

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Compositions (and link to scores):

Most of these compositions deal with harmonic space / extended just intonation and generally for unspecified instrumentation where many of the parameters not related to pitch relations are open to interpretation. Unspecified dynamics and timbral qualities generally mean that these aspects should be quite consistent throughout, but more importantly, that the tuning- and timbral aspect of the music is supported by the sound production. As this is a personal / subjective notion, the music is open to experimentation and interpretation.

The scores are available for anyone to check out and play, and please get in touch by e-mail if you want to perform or record my music for public purposes.

2023:

Appearance (for instrument in 12-tone equal temperament and accompaniment in just intonation)

Tracing (for instrument in 12-tone equal temperament and accompaniment in just intonation)

Alloy (for Zinc & Copper + guitar)

2022:

Delve I-II (for 12 string guitar)

2021:

Concord (for sixth tone harmonium and two e-bowed guitars, HEJI version) / Concord (version with 6th-tone accidentals)

Murmurations XXI – XXV

Murmurations XVI – XX

Murmurations XIII – XV

Murmurations VI-XII

nine small pieces for two to four string instruments in four-part five-limit harmony

Svevning

2020:

Dyads (for Johnny Chang) for violin solo

Duality (for Leo Dupleix)

Murmurations IV- V

Murmurations I-III  listen

Fuse modulations  –  listen (excerpt)

Six voices (for HSO)

tetra I-XI

(For solo piano:)

Aerodynamic (for solo piano and sine wave track, or open instrumentation) – sine wave track

Suffuse

Pendulum

Amaranth

Lunation

Two Cycles (for Johan Lindvall)

Pythagorean Sequence I – III

Murmurations I-III (version for solo piano)

All Heart

Dyadic canon (version for solo piano)

Emu

Turmeric

2019:

Four Parallel Rivers (for solo piano)

Four Unanswered Questions for violin and viola   – listen

View (for cello or fretless guitar)   – listen / video

Formation of Starlings (for Oker) – listen

Stream drops – 2019   – listen

2018:

Alternating Duos    – listen

Six Moving Guitars –  listen

Song with bowed guitar #3

2017:

32 chords   – listen

Dyadic Canon

Harmony for two or more voices (quartet)    – listen 

Harmony for six voices  – listen

Harmony for two or more voices (trio)  –  listen / video

Three voices – 2017   – listen

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Main groups and projects:

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Pip

with Torstein Lavik Larsen – trumpet

pipband.com

pipband.bandcamp.com

sofamusic.no/artist/pip

Pip is a duo playing improvised and composed pieces of music, consisting of Torstein Lavik Larsen on trumpet and Fredrik Rasten on guitar. Long lasting, blending sounds with a basis in chord structures and harmony is an ever returning element in their music.  Pip’s music also emphasizes small variations in tonal colour, often applying just intonation, extended playing techniques and repeating musical patterns. Sometimes they include electronic sounds, without leaving behind the core sound of guitar and trumpet as a point of departure.

pip

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Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten

The duo of Egil Kalman and Fredrik Rasten explores long lasting and slowly developing chords and justly tuned harmonic relationships. The warm and «endless» sounds of Kalman’s modular synthesizer combined with Rasten’s acoustic and electric guitars and subtle vocal shadings creates a space where acoustic and electric sounds blend and fulfill each other completely.

http://kalmanrasten.bandcamp.com

http://shhpuma.com/product/egil-kalman-fredrik-rasten-weaving-a-fabric-of-winds/

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Fredrik Rasten Solo

Fredrik Rasten works with acoustic guitar and in exploring the possibilities for putting this instrument in new musical contexts. With use of just intonation, live retuning, bows and other preperations, he creates warm sounds in gradual development. He also includes subtle use of the voice to make interfering thick timbres and tonalities in combination with the guitar.  A goal for the music is to open a room for details that invites the listener inside the musical material in an active and exploring way.

He is also playing composed music, especially related to quiet / Wandelweiser music and Just Intonation music, and has performed pieces by Johan Lindvall, Antoine Beuger and Catherine Lamb.

Photo: Torstein Lavik Larsen

Photo: Elin Terese Osjord

Filming: Bernd Kumar

Filming: Uli Decker

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Six Moving Guitars

In Six Moving Guitars, the stable sounds of justly tuned consonances are being «activated» by the different qualities of the movements of the guitars. The piece came out of the collaborative work between three dancers and three musicians. The group’s goal was to work with choreography and sound as a unity, erasing the functional differences between dancer and musician and focusing solely on the sonic output of moving or spatially situated sound sources.

Six Moving Guitars is the result of one of the pathways that the group followed. The piece comprises an integrated whole of sound and movement, where all the six performers become moving guitar players and where the moving of the guitars is always instrumental to its specific spatial and sounding effect.

The music and the movements tied to the specific playing techniques and sounds are composed by Rasten, whereas the overall choreographic form is created through a process of playing and investigating the material collectively in a room. The piece can also be seen as a study in how people, without necessarily being trained musicians, can act together in a musical situation based on awareness of listening and spatial orientation.

Marie Bergby Handeland, Hans Pålsen Kjorstad, Erlend Olderskog Albertsen, Mathilde Øverland, Catharina Vehre Gresslien and Fredrik Rasten – acoustic guitars and movement

fredrikrasten.bandcamp.com

https://www.sofamusic.no/index.php/album/six-moving-guitars

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Limits

with Inga Margrete Aas – gamba, double bass, Vilde Sandve Alnæs – violin, Torstein Lavik Larsen – trumpet

Limits is a quartet playing composed material with a focus on just intonation. Vilde and Inga have a beautiful duo and as I have played a lot with Torstein in different constellations I thought this would be a nice match.

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Harmonic Space Orchestra

HSO is a brand new collective and ensemble of composers and players based in Berlin, with a special interest and competence in tuning systems and specifically just intonation. The ensemble mainly plays music by its members, and the current collective consists of Marc Sabat, Catherine Lamb, Johnny Chang, Rebecca Lane, Samuel Dunscombe, Michiko Ogawa, M.O. Abbott, Lucy Railton, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Thomas Nicholson and Fredrik Rasten

http://harmonic-space.org

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Oker

with Jan Martin Gismervik – drums, Adrian Fiskum Myhr – bass, Torstein Lavik Larsen – trumpet

Oker combines sounds from extended instrumental techniques with open tonalities and deconstructed grooves. The ensemble balances between airy gestures and dense collective blocks of sound. 

okerband.com

sofamusic.no/artist/oker

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Vilhelm Bromander and Fredrik Rasten

with Vilhelm Bromander – double bass, voice

The duo of Bromander and Rasten is working with improvisation and composition to create resonant acoustic music with double bass, guitar and subtle vocal additions. Together they explore the potential of just intonation and how it can be utilized in improvised music, as well as in fully composed pieces.

Photo: Christina Marx

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Volumes

with Isak Hedtjärn – metal clarinet, Torstein Lavik Larsen – trumpet, Magda Mayas – prepared grand piano

http://volumesquartet.bandcamp.com

mayas-hedtjarn-laviklarsen-rasten-presspic

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Arches

with Jonathan Heilbron – double bass

This duo plays semi-composed but mainly improvised music consisting
of sustained notes with subtle changes in intonation and tonal colour.

Arches released their first duo album With All Your Mysteries In The Open Air

on Inexhaustible Editions on 1st of August 2019. Listen / buy here.

http://archesmusic.bandcamp.com/

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Releases:

Seamus Cater – A History of Musical Pitch, Another Timbre (2023)

Fredrik Rasten – Lineaments, SOFA (2023)

Léo Dupleix – Pr​é​ludes non mesur​é​s – albertineeditions (2022)

Fredrik Rasten & Léo Dupleix – Delve II, INSUB (2022)

Michiko Ogawa – Junkan, Marginal Frequency (2022)

Germaine Sijstermans – Betula, elsewhere (2022)

Propan – Swagger, SOFA (2022)

Hans Kjorstad – Avkjølingshistorie, Motvind Records (2022)

Taku Sugimoto – Octet, Ftarri / Meenna (2021)

Johan Lindvall – Two trios, INSUB (2021)

Fredrik Rasten – Svevning, INSUB (2021)

Fredrik Rasten – Four Parallel Rivers (Johan Lindvall – solo piano), Edition Wandelweiser Records (2021)

Oker – Susurrus, Shhpuma (2021)

Stefan Thut, with Léo Dupleix, Felicie Bazelaire, Fredrik Rasten – among, Inexhaustible Editions (2020)

Mikoo – Dear, Jazzland (2020)

Marc Sabat / Harmonic Space Orchestra – Gioseffo Zarlino, Sacred Realism (2020)

Taku Sugimoto / Denis Sorokin / Fredrik Rasten – Trio, Ftarri/  Meenna (2020)

Pip – Pip, Creative Sources (2016)

Pip, ØS-kollektiv ØS001 (2015)

Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii, Efpi Records Fp018 (2014)

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Reviews:

Fredrik Rasten – Six Moving Guitars:

Musik an sich

Johan Lindvall – Giraffe:

Brian Olewnick / Just outside

Fluid Radio

Pip – Possible Worlds and Arches – With all your mysteries in the open air:

Volumes – View:

Freejazz blog

Salt Peanuts

Vilhelm Bromander & Fredrik Rasten – …for some reason that escapes us:

Salt Peanuts

Nitestylez

SilenceAndSound

Lira

Vital Weekly

Musicmap

Arches – With all your mysteries in the open air:

Vital Weekly

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Concert archive:

2024:

January 25: Six Moving Guitars, Ny Musikk Oslo, Sentralen, Forstanderskapssalen, Oslo

January 15: Solo concert, double bill with Rebecca Lane and Thomas Nicholson ‘Doppelzelt’, Keith Bar, Berlin

January 17: Duo with Alexander Markvart, PAS, Berlin

March 1: Solo, Lineaments, Sowieso, Berlin

March 23: Seamus Cater & Fredrik Rasten, Intro, Heerlen

April 12: Seamus Cater & Fredrik Rasten – double bill with Eugene Chadbourne (duet with Schroeder), DNK / OCCII, Amsterdam

April 4: Oker, Oorstof/Klankhaven, Antwerp

April 5: Oker, Koffie & Ambacht, Rotterdam

April 6: Oker, Amsterdam, house concert at ‘Budapest’

April 7: Oker, Cuba, Münster

April 10: Toma Gouband / Nils Ostendorf / Fredrik Rasten, KM28, Berlin

April 15: Oker, PALÁC AKROPOLIS, Praha

April 16: Oker, A4, Bratislava

2023:

November 30: Sam Dunscombe – ‘Two Forests’ (Black Truffle) record release, w/ Jules Reidy, Max Eilbacher, Sam Dunscombe, Fredrik Rasten, KM28, Berlin

December 18: Seamus Cater – Live performance of ‘A History of Musical Pitch’, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam

January 15 – solo performance at All Ears Festival of Improvised Music, MUNCH museum, Oslo

January 18 – Pip, PAS, Berlin

January 26 – with Germaine Sijstermans an Rishin Singh, music by Germaine Sijstermans, KM28, Berlin

January 28 – Oker, Improverk, Kafe Hærverk, Oslo

January 29 – Pip, Cappelens Forslag, Oslo

January 31 – Solo – Murmurations XVI and Stasis I, KM28, Berlin

March 30 – Reinier van Houdt plays Feldman – Palais de Mari, Rasten – Aerodynamic, Scelsi – Suite Nr9 TTAI, De Leidse Salon / Klank als ruimte, Leiden, Netherlands

April 1 – Solo, Murmuartions XVI and Stasis I-II, Himera / Ehkä, Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku, Finland

April 17 – Seamus Cater / Fredrik Rasten duo – premiere of new duo working with collaborative arrangements of traditional British folk songs and original songs, Labor Sonor, Kule, Berlin

May 2 – Oker – double bill with Owen Gardner, KM28, Berlin

May 3 – Oker, Elektrosmog, Mannheim

May 4 – Oker – double bill with Poor Isa (Frederik Leroux and Ruben Machtelinckx), KONG, Ghent

June 2 – Seamus Cater & Fredrik Rasten (new and old folk songs), Brussel, Theatre de la Vie – The Pool Sessions

June 3 – Seamus Cater & Fredrik Rasten (new and old folk songs), Amsterdam, DNK, Pest House

June 9 – Norwegian Academy of Music, masters graduation concert, Riksscenen, Oslo

June 15 – Oren Ambarchi’s Carpe Diem w/Konrad Sprenger, Sam Dunscombe, Fredrik Rasten, Mike Majkowski, Will Guthrie. Art Basel – Messeplatz – Installation by Latifa Echakhch, Basel, Switzerland

August 28 – Vilhelm Bromander & Fredrik Rasten – PAS, Berlin

September 21 – Zinc & Copper presents ‘Well Tuned Brass’ Festival, Zinc & Copper with pieces by and with Julia Reidy and Fredrik Rasten, KM28, Berlin

September 27 – Vilhelm Bromander & Fredrik Rasten, KHIMAIRA, Stockholm

October 5 – Fredrik Rasten solo + Fredrik Rasten & Alasdair Roberts, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow

October 18 – Léo Dupleix, Jon Heilbron, Rebecca Lane, Fredrik Rasten performs pieces by Dupleix and Rasten, PAS, Berlin

November 19 – Solo, Samtidsmusikkpub, Kafé Hærverk, Oslo

November 20 – Oker, PAS, Berlin

November 21 – Oker, Punctum, Prague

November 22 – Oker, Echoraum, Vienna,

2022:

January 5 – Eric Wong (computer), Fredrik Rasten (tuning forks, singing), Sowieso, Berlin

February 20 – Pip Cappelens Forslag, Oslo

February 23 – Solo (new music for 12-string guitar), Galerie les 26 Chaises, Paris. Also solos by Félicie Bazelaire and Léo Dupleix

April 24 – Pip, elektrosmog, Mannheim

April 26 – Pip, KM28, Berlin

April 28 – Pip, Koncertkirken, Copenhagen

May 21 – Quartet with Léo Dupleix (synthesis), Rebecca Lane (flute), Jon Heilbron (contrabass), Fredrik Rasten (guitar). Music by Léo Dupleix and Fredrik Rasten, KM28, Berlin

May 27 – Vocal ensemble EKMELES performs Harmony for six voices, among other works – Crypt of the Church of the Intercession, New York.  More info: https://ekmeles.com/wp/2022/04/premieres-may-2022/

June 10 – guest feature with O – (Inga Aas, Helen Louise Solberg, Jan Martin Gismervik), KM28, Berlin

June 12 – premiere of a new duo piece for four microtonal guitars with Ruben Machtelinckx and myself, TBA, Antwerp

June 15 – Solo live at PoesiFestival Berlin. More info: https://poesiefestival.org/en/media/poets-corner-mitte-poetry-in-the-districts-focus-norway/

August 7 – solo concert, performance of some of my Murmurations for electric guitars at PAS, Berlin

August 31 – trio concert with Bryan Eubanks and Eric Wong, Hosek Contemporary, Berlin

September 21 – Pip, Playdate, Bergen

Sept 18 – Johan Lindvall plays Fredrik Rasten, music from ‘four parallel rivers’ and more, Kampenjazz, Oslo

Sept 20 – Pip, Biermanns Sessions / Biermannsgården, Oslo

Sept 21 – Pip, Playdate, Bergen

Sept 24 – performance with ensemble Phlegma, Planet Ears festival, Mannheim

Oct 1 – Six Moving Guitars, NEXT festival, Bratislava

Nov 9 – Performance of ‘Junkan’ by Michiko Ogawa. With Sam Dunscombe (bass clarinet), Rebecca Lane (flute), Cat Lamb (viola), Fredrik Rasten (guitar), Jonathan Heilbron (bass), Sarah Saviet (violin), Judith Hamann (cello), Michiko Ogawa (clarinet), KM28, Berlin

Nov 10 – Performance of ‘Hubris’ by Oren Ambarchi, Arkaoda, Berlin:

Oren Ambarchi – guitar
with:
Konrad Sprenger – the ringmaster
Eiko Ishibashi – flute, electronics
Sam Dunscombe – bass clarinet
*(possibly)* Mats Gustafsson – baritone sax
Francis Plagne – guitar
Phillip Sollmann – guitar
Fredrik Rasten – guitar
Marcus Pal – guitar
Mike Majkowski – bass
Will Guthrie – drums
Tony Buck – drums
crys cole – “stop”

Nov 13 – Six Moving Guitars, NY MUSIKK, Bergen

Nov 14 – Six Moving Guitars, TBA, Haugesund

Nov 19., and 23.-26. TACIT AFFINITIES, installation exhibition with Mareike Yin-Yee Lee and Yukiko Terada,

Hošek Contemporary, Berlin

Nov 30 – Oker, KM28, Berlin

Dec 1 – Oker, Frim Syd, Malmö

Dec 7 – duo with Ruben Machtelinckx, ‘Strands of Lunar Light’ by Fredrik Rasten, RUISKAMER #3 / MIRY Concertzaal, Ghent

2021:

December 18th – New commissioned duo piece ‘Concord’ for microtonal sixth-tone harmonium and electric guitar(s) – Prague Quiet Music Festival, České muzeum hudby.

Alongside new pieces by Eva-Maria Houben, James Weeks, Linda Catlin Smith and Ian Mikyska

facebook event:

https://fb.me/e/1Cc7GcwGG

June 26th – Harmonic Space Orchestra – Konzerthaus Berlin:  Berlin Composers – Harmony, Emptiness, Space. Works by Marc Sabat, Chiyoko Szlavnics and Catherine Lamb

July 29th – Music for the cosmos at Petersburg Art Space, Berlin. Solo performance of pieces from my  ‘Murmurations’-series on electric guitars

August 2nd – 12 – Residency and concerts focusing on Germaine Sijsterman’s music at heim.art, Neufelden.

With Germaine Sijstermans, Seamus Cater, Rishin Singh, Marcus Kaiser and Rebecca Lane

September 9th – Solo concert, Nordische Botschaft, Berlin – part of Poet’s corner / poesifestival berlin

September 16th – 18th – Tour with Alasdair Roberts and Völvur:

September 16th – Riksscenen, Oslo
September 17th or 18th – Haugesund bibliotek / Sildajazz lytteklubb
September 19th – Alice, Copenhagen
October 16th – Solo concert, KM28, Berlin, Lineament I-II

November 10th – Solo at KM28, Berlin – pieces from my Murmurations series for guitars played with electronic bows.

November 14th – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin. Double bill with Sam Dunscombe

November 16th – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten, Klub Primi, Copenhagen – CANCELLED

December 5th – Oker – Nonfigurativ Musikk, Tønsberg

December 6th – Oker, Cappelens Forslag, Oslo

2020:

October 16th – 24th – Harmonic Space 2020, Kindl & KM28, Berlin. Focus on James Tenney and associated music. More info here: www.harmonicspace.org

November 19th – Alasdair Roberts & Völvur – Riksscenen, Oslo – CANCELLED

November 20th – Alasdair Roberts & Völvur, ALICE, Copenhagen – CANCELLED

August 19th – duo with Eric Wong (laptop), playing a new collaborative piece, Hosek Contemporary, Berlin

January 24th – Alasdair Roberts & Völvur – Cecil Sharp House, London

January 25th – Alasdair Roberts & Völvur – Celtic Connections, Glasgow

February 6th – Improvised music with Denis Sorokin, Felipe Araya and Xavier Lopez, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

February 7th – Performance of “Four Parallel Rivers” with Denis Sorokin and Sam Dunscombe, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

March 13th – Oker, Ny Musikk, Bodø – CANCELLED

April 24th – Six Moving Guitars, Ny Musikk Bergen – CANCELLED

April 25th – Solo, Ny Musikk Bergen, Bergen Bibliotek – CANCELLED

April 27th – 28th – Six Moving Guitars, Gjøvik and Lillehammer, details TBA, Ny Musikk Innlandet – CANCELLED

May 25th – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten – Glasgow Experimental Music Series, Glasgow – CANCELLED

May 26th – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten – TBA London – CANCELLED

May 27th – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten – Quai de Bourbon, Paris – CANCELLED

May 29th – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten – DATA, Marseille¨ – CANCELLED

May 30th – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten – elektrosmog, Mannheim – CANCELLED

May 31st – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten – Petersburg Art Space, Berlin – CANCELLED

June 28th – with Stefan Thut, Léo Dupleix and Félicie Bazelaire, Säulenhalle, Landhaus Solothurn

2019:

January 6th – Performance of Limn (for acoustic guitar and voice) at chords, melodies festival (organized by Fredrik Rasten and Marc Sabat), KM28, Berlin

January 8th – Vilhelm Bromander and Fredrik Rasten, music for guitar and double bass

Harmony for two or more voices (2018), performed by Marc Sabat (violin), Thomas Nicholson (violin), Fredrik Rasten (guitar), Catherine Lamb (viola), Johnny Chang (viola), and Vilhelm Bromander (double bass)

Gioseffo Zarlino (Marc Sabat) (2015), performed by Marc Sabat (violin), Thomas Nicholson (viola), and Fredrik Rasten (guitar)

at chords, melodies festival (organized by Fredrik Rasten and Marc Sabat), KM28, Berlin

January 11th – with Dan Peter Sundland (electric bass) and Michael Thieke (clarinet), Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

February 8th – Alasdair Roberts and Völvur, Riksscenen, Oslo

February 9th – Alasdair Roberts and Völvur, Christianshavns Beboerhus, Copenhagen

February 10th – Alasdair Roberts and Völvur, Musikkens Hus, Fanø

February 17th – Solo at Spektrum, Berlin. Double bill with Ilia Belorukov / Lauri Hyvärinen duo

February 20th  – Mikoo, Divadlo29, Pardubice, Czech republic

February 21th – Mikoo, AVA kolektiv, Brno, Czech republic

February 22th – Mikoo, Nová Synagoga, Žilina, Slovakia

February 23th – Mikoo, Bašta, Bardejov, Slovakia

February 24th – Mikoo, Viola, Prešov, Slovakia

March 7th – Guitar trio with Taku Sugimoto and Denis Sorokin, Compositions by Taku Sugimoto and Fredrik Rasten.  Denis Sorokin will also be premiering solo pieces by Eva Marie Houben and Johan Lindvall, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

March 8th – Duo with Quentin Tolimieri (piano) and guitar trio with Taku Sugimoto and Denis Sorokin (improvised set).
Plus Catherine Lamb, Taku Sugimoto and Denis Sorokin will play an improvised trio set.

March 10th – Volumes, Series / Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

March 11th – Volumes w/ Mike Majkowski, KM28, Berlin

March 12th – Volumes, Blow Out / Kafe Hærverk, Oslo

March 25th – Solo performance of “Limn – for acoustic guitar and occasional voice”, Labor Sonor, Berlin

April 10th – Pip performs the new piece “Possible Worlds” at KM28, Berlin

April 12th – Improvised music with Robin Hayward (tuba), Torstein Lavik Larsen (trumpet), Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone) and Andreas Hoem Røysum (clarinet), KM28, Berlin

April 14th – NOORG (Loïc Guénin and Eric Brochard) with Fredrik Rasten, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

April 18th – Ensemble performance of Catherine Lamb´s Prisma Interius I, KM28, Berlin

with Catherine Lamb, Johnny Chang, Bryan Eubanks, Rebecca Lane, Andrew Lafkas, Xavier Lopez and Evelyn Saylor

April 26th – Duo with Quentin Tolimieri, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

May 16th – Ensemble performance of music by Marc Sabat, KM28, Berlin

May 28th – Exam concert with Limits and solo performance of “Limn – for acoustic guitar and occasional voice”, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo

June 2nd – 7th – Rehearsing and recording with Oker at Flerbruket, Hemnes

June 10th – Duo with Bryan Eubanks (saxophone, electronics), Creative Sources Festival at Kühlspot, Berlin

July 24th – Solo and trio with Guilherme Rodrigues and Joao Valinho, Hósek Contemporary, Berlin

August 1st – 5th – Rehearsing and recording of ‘Gioseffo Zarlino’ by Marc Sabat, with Marc Sabat, Catherine Lamb, Rebecca Lane, Deborah Walker, Yanick Guedon, Marta Garcia Gomez, Silvia Tarozzi, Thomas Nicholson and Natalie Pfeifer

August 17th – Pip at Playdate, Bergen

August 28th – Duo with Catherine Lamb (viola, voice), Hósek Contemporary, Berlin

August 30th – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten, Berlin, KM28

September 4th – 7th – Recording with Germaine Sijstermans project, also including Rishin Singh (trombone), Antoine Beuger (flute), Leo Svirsky (accordion) and Johnny Chang (viola, violin)

September 11th – Duo with Marthe Lea (saxophone, percussion, vocals, div) at Lillehammer Experimental, Lillehammer

September 12th – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten, Cappelens Forslag, Oslo

September 13th – Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten, Galleri 21, Malmö

September 23rd – Vilhelm Bromander & Fredrik Rasten at PØKK, Trondheim

September 24th – Vilhelm Bromander & Fredrik Rasten, Cappelens Forslag, Oslo

September 25th – Vilhelm Bromander & Fredrik Rasten at Brötz, Gothenburg

September 26th – Vilhelm Bromander & Fredrik Rasten at Fylkingen, Stockholm

October 1st – Performance of View (for cello) at Micro-Jornadas de Composición y Música Contemporánea, Émilie Girard-Charest – cello, Cordoba

October 15th – Oker at Sentralen, Oslo, premiering new pieces by each of the band members

October 27th – Quartets: with Taku Sugimoto, Denis Sorokin and Andrey Popovskiy (guitars) and with Taku Sugimoto, Denis Sorokin (guitars) and Stefan Thut (cello) – Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

October 28th – Performance of “Octet” by Taku Sugimoto and “Boundary Music” by Mieko Shiomi.

With Sam Dunscombe, Michiko Ogawa, Catherine Lamb, Johnny Chang, Jon Heilbron, Rebecca Lane and Lucy Railton

KM28, Berlin

October 30th – November 3rd – tour with Germaine Sijstermans project, also including Rishin Singh (trombone), Antoine Beuger (flute), Leo Svirsky (accordion) and Johnny Chang (viola, violin)

November 15th – Pieces by Johan Lindvall, with Derek Shirley (cello) and Johan Lindvall (piano), KM28, Berlin

November 24th – Mikoo at Kampenjazz, Cafétheateret, Oslo

November 25th – SOFA release evening with Pip, sharing with Dans les arbres and Propan, Cafétheateret, Oslo

November 27th – Mikoo at Brötz, Gothenburg

December 5th – Pip performs “Possible Worlds” at KM28, Berlin

December 11th – Performance of Koen Nutter’s ‘A Piece with Memories’ (2017):

Joseph Kudirka – guitar, voice
Koen Nutters – Harmona organ, sine tones, voice
Fredrik Rasten – guitar, voice
Julia Reidy – guitar, voice

2018:

Duo concerts with Vilhelm Bromander on double bass:
January 21st – Pattons Malmgård, Stockholm
January 23rd – Fylkingen, Stockholm
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Pip Winter / Spring Tour 2018:
February 1st – Ausland, Berlin
February 2nd – Wim, Zürich
March 13th – Bludny Kamen, Ostrava
March 14th – Offene Ohren, Munich
March 15th – Interpenetration, Graz
March 16th – Repete, Ljubljana
March 17th – Setzkasten, Vienna

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March 6th – Nåtiden, and Torstein Lavik Larsen solo, Cappelens Forslag, Oslo

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March 10th – View from nowhere plays duo music of Antoine Beuger, Johan Lindvall and Fredrik Rasten, Levinsalen, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo

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With Vilhelm Bromander on double bass:
March 22nd – Cappelens Forslag, Oslo

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Release tour with Oker:

February 7th: Brötz, Gothenburg

April 9th: Le 102, Grenoble

April 10th: Le Cabinet, Geneva

April 11th: La Maison de Norvege, Paris

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April 16th: Arches, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

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April 24th: Trio with Andrea Neumann and Espen Reinertsen, Blow Out, Oslo

April 25th: Solo, Gallery ANX Nord, Oslo

May 4th – With Michaela Antalova and John Andrew Wilhite and dancers, Sentralen, Oslo

May 10th, Oker & Miman double release concert, TBA, Oslo

May 26th, Michaela Antalova´s exam concert with Fennel, Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo

May 28th and 29th – Musician / composer in theater project at KHiO, Oslo

June 2nd – Solo, TBA, Milano

Tour with Arches:

June 4th – Ny Musikk Nordland

June 5th – Fri Form Kirkenes

June 8th – Cappelens Forslag, Oslo

June 9th – Frilagret, Gothenburg

June 11th – Koncertkirken, Copenhagen

July 23rd – 29th – With Rudolf Terland Bjørnerem and Johan Lindvall at Wandelweiser festival Klangraum, Düsseldorf

August 29th – September 1st – Different constellations and music by / with Germaine Sijstermans, Leo Svirsky and Johnny Chang – Cultura Nova, Heerlen

September 5th – Mikoo (with Michaela Antalova, Ina Sagstuen, Ayumi Tanaka) – Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo

September 30th – Duo with Marthe Lea, Kafe Hærværk, Oslo

October 11th – 14th – Femtimeteren (Interdisciplinary sound and choreography performance with Marie Bergby Handeland, Mathilde Øverland, Catharina Vehre Gresslien, Erlend Albertsen and Hans P. Kjorstad) Kanonhallen, Oslo

October 25th – 30th – Mikoo (with Michaela Antalova, Ina Sagstuen, Ayumi Tanaka), Europe tour TBA

November 11th – Nåtiden, Kampenjazz, Oslo

November 17th – Oker, Jazzatelier, Ulrichsberg

December 12th – Arches, Playdate, Bergen

December 13th – Arches, Kafé Hærverk, Oslo

December 14th – Arches, Petersburg Art space, Berlin

December 16th – Quartet with Derek Shirley, Rebecca Lane and Jon Heilbron. Music by Fredrik Rasten, Petersburg Art Space, Berlin

2017:

January 18th – Pip, with Dag Erik Knedal Andersen – Musikkbaren/Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo

February 1st – Pip – Kulturnhalle, Leipzig

February 2nd – Pip, Unijazz/Punctum, Prague

February 3rd – Pip, Frequenzgänge, Hamburg

February 5th – Pip, Sacred Realism/Studio 8, Berlin

February 13th – Pip (tripple bill and joint session with duos Kakapoi and Veve), Levinsalen/Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo

February 15th – Pip, Periferien/Sentralen, Oslo

February 17th – Oker, Serendip/Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo

February 18th – Nåtiden – children´s concert, Serendip/Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo

March 8th – Propanions (the vocal duo Propan with guests), Ladyfest/TBA, Oslo

March 10th – Pip with Christian Wallumrød, RAW/Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo

March 16th – Seshen/Hans Kjorstad/Fredrik Rasten/Christian Wallumrød, Biermannsgården, Oslo

March 25th – Solo, Nonfigurativ Musikk, Tønsberg

March 26th – Fennel – double bill with Vojtech Prochazka/Agnes Hvizdalek, Biermannsgården, Oslo

March 29th – Oker, Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin

March 30th – Oker, Bludny Kamen, Ostrava
April 1st – Oker, Stanica, Zilina
April 2nd – Oker, Mozg, Warszawa
April 7th – Solo performance of “point / wave” by Catherine Lamb, Cappelens Forslag, Oslo
April 8th – duo with Andrew Wilhite (bass), Levinsalen, Norwegian Academy of Music
 May 14th – Oker, Klanghaus Festival, Untergreith, Austria
May 31st – Exam concert at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo (solo and with Pip, improvisations and compositions by FR, Pip, Catherine Lamb and Johan Lindvall)
June 4th – Mikoo ( with Michaela Antalova, Ina Sagstuen and Ayumi Tanaka), Kulturhuset/Oslo

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June 21st – Solo performance with music for guitar and guitar / voice of Johan Lindvall, Biermannsgården, Oslo

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Russia/Germany/Norway tour with Arches (Jon Heilbron – double bass):
June 20th – Dans for voksne/Cappelens Forslag, Oslo
June 22nd – Spinarium/Vinylla Sky, duo collaboration with Boris Shersenkov
June 23rd – Spinarium/Vinylla Sky, St. Petersburg
June 24th –  art space TEPLO, Yaroslavl
June 25th – Untitled, Moscow
July 2nd –  Duo with Emilio Gordoa, Sacred Realism/Studio 8, Berlin
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July 8th – Solo at Motvind / Mir, Oslo
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August 27th – Solo at Cappelens Forslag, Oslo

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September 7th – Cappelens Forslag, Oslo:

Trio with:

John Andrew Wilhite – double bass

Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø – trombone

+ Sarah-Jane Summers – violin solo

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 Tour with Volumes (with Isak Hedtjärn, Torstein Lavik Larsen and Magda Mayas):
September 24th – Kampenjazz, Oslo
September 25th – Pøkk, Trondheim
September 27th – Brötz, Gothenburg
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Tour with Oker:
October 1st – Kafe Hærværk, Oslo
October 3rd – Culturgest, Lisboa
October 4th – Smup, Parede
October 5th – Salao Brazil, Coimbra
October 6th – Sonoscopia, Porto
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4 days of performances with Freya Sif Hestnes´ project Lost item service:
October 12th – 15th – Diskurs 17, Giessen
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November 20th – Sextet with Pip / Streifeinjunko / Seijiro Murayama / Per Oddvar Johansen, Oslo, Levinsalen / Norwegian Academy of Music
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November 23rd – “Telepartitur”, with John Andrew Wilhite, Ina Sagstuen,
Nana Pi Aabo Larsen, Michaela Antalová and visual artist Auden Lincoln-Vogel,
Oslo, Lindemannsalen / Norwegian Academy of Music
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December 7th –  Pip with Dag Erik Knedal Andersen – Ila Fysikalske, Oslo
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