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:
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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: Torstein Lavik Larsen
Photo: Elin Terese Osjord
Photo: Mareike Yin-Yee Lee
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Upcoming live schedule:
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’, contact on e-mail me for details
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
May 15: Pip, Experimentik, 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)
nine small pieces for two to four string instruments in four-part five-limit harmony
2020:
Dyads (for Johnny Chang) for violin solo
Murmurations IV- V
Fuse modulations – listen (excerpt)
(For solo piano:)
Aerodynamic (for solo piano and sine wave track, or open instrumentation) – sine wave track
Two Cycles (for Johan Lindvall)
Murmurations I-III (version for solo piano)
Dyadic canon (version for solo piano)
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:
2017:
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:
(click pictures to enlarge/download as press pic)
Pip
with Torstein Lavik Larsen – trumpet
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.
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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
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
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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.
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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
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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 – Préludes non mesurés – albertineeditions (2022)
Fredrik Rasten & Léo Dupleix – Delve II, INSUB (2022)
Michiko Ogawa – Junkan, Marginal Frequency (2022)
Germaine Sijstermans – Betula, elsewhere (2022)
Hans Kjorstad – Avkjølingshistorie, Motvind Records (2022)
Taku Sugimoto – Octet, Ftarri / Meenna (2021)
Johan Lindvall – Two trios, INSUB (2021)
Fredrik Rasten – Svevning, INSUB (2021)
Oker – Susurrus, Shhpuma (2021)
Marc Sabat / Harmonic Space Orchestra – Gioseffo Zarlino, Sacred Realism (2020)
Taku Sugimoto / Denis Sorokin / Fredrik Rasten – Trio, Ftarri/ Meenna (2020)
Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten – Weaving a Fabric of Winds, Shhpuma (2019)
Pip – Possible Worlds, SOFA (2019)
Vilhelm Bromander og Fredrik Rasten – …for some reason that escapes us, Differ records (2019)
Fredrik Rasten – Six Moving Guitars, SOFA (2019)
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Salmon / Rasten – A late evening in the future – Creative Sources, 2019)
Arches – With all your mysteries in the open air, Inexhaustible Editions (2019)
Volumes – View, Va Fongool (2019)
Oker – Husene våre er museer, SOFA (2018)
Johan Lindvall – solo / ensemble, Edition Wandelweiser (2016)
Pip – Pip, Creative Sources (2016)
Pip, ØS-kollektiv ØS001 (2015)
Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii, Efpi Records Fp018 (2014)
Reviews:
Fredrik Rasten – Six Moving Guitars:
Johan Lindvall – Giraffe:
Pip:
Pip – Possible Worlds and Arches – With all your mysteries in the open air:
Volumes – View:
Vilhelm Bromander & Fredrik Rasten – …for some reason that escapes us:
Arches – With all your mysteries in the open air:
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
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:
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:
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:
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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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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
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June 21st – Solo performance with music for guitar and guitar / voice of Johan Lindvall, Biermannsgården, 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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Nana Pi Aabo Larsen, Michaela Antalová and visual artist Auden Lincoln-Vogel,