Ignaz Schick (alto and baritone saxophone)
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (double bass)
Oliver Steidle (drums)

This new, acoustic trio consists of three iconic performers on today's European jazz and experimental music scene. The birth of this band came through two long running electroacoustic duos, Håker Flaten/Schick and ILOG (Schick/Steidle), which culminated in a trio with the timeless and classic line-up of saxophone, double bass and drums. Three cutting edge musicians have found together in their shared love for the tradition of free jazz and free improvisation. They are currently on tour promoting their new release "The Cliffhanger Session" (Zarek, 2024). Pure, melodic, rhythmic, energetic, surprising and rooted in tradition. 

(Photo: Karl Lehner/Juliane Schütz/Ralf Dombrowski)

Venue: Dokkhuset Scene

Henriette Eilertsen (flute)
Joel Ring (cello)
Øystein Aarnes Vik (drums)

Norwegian jazz flutist Henriette Eilertsen presents her new trio together with Joel Ring and Øystein Aarnes Vik. Through Eilertsen’s music they create a fresh and inventive sound where the richness of the jazz flute is in front, navigating through references from the global jazz history and Scandinavian contemporary jazz. Henriette has established herself as a serious and progressive new voice on the Scandinavian scene. She has a versatile approach, where genre specifics, traditions and constellations are merely starting points for further explorations. Be it with her own solo project which culminated in the album “Poems for Flute”, where acoustic recordings float side by side with bitcrush sounds, in the space music band Billy Meier or together with free jazz group Andreas Røysum Ensemble.

Photo: Dorota Koperska

Venue: Dokkhuset Scene

Carl Stone (electronics)

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has used computers in live performances since 1986. He was born in California and now divides his time between Los Angeles and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music since the early 70´s. The past few years, he has released several interesting albums, including Wat Dong Moon Lek (2022) and Stolen Car (2020). Listening to Carl Stones music is a journey in sound. Eclectic sampling, distortions and sound manipulation unlike anything else you've heard.

(Photo: David-Agasi)

Venue: Dokkhuset Scene

Franziska Baumann (voice/live electronics)
Alex Nowitz (voice/live electronics) (strophonion)
Tone Åse (voice/live electronics)

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These improvising and exploratory vocal artists have for several years immersed themselves in the voice itself, as well as alternative vocal techniques, and various types of live electronics, including custom made and sensor-based controllers.  With this, they expand and challenge both their own instrument and the possible roles of the vocalist. The musicians often work together in the quartet "Operadicals" (with multi-artist Sten Sandell as the fourth member), but this evening you will hear them in variations of solo, duo and trio, and together with Trondheim Voices. There are few limits to where these improvisations can go in the vocal and electronic landscape, from lyrical countertenor and yodeling, to noise, mouth sounds and ambience. Technological virtuosity and passionate musicianship, exploratory interplay between the organic and the electronic voice, the sound and the body, loads of playfulness, and deep seriousness. This concert is curated in collaboration with nyMusikk Trondheim.

(Photo, Franziska Baumann: Sebastian Rausch)
(Photo, Alex Nowitz: Oscar Loeser)
(Photo, Tone Åse: Thor Egil Leirtrø)

Venue: Dokkhuset Scene

Franziska Baumann (voice/live electronics)
Alex Nowitz (voice/live electronics) (strophonion)
Tone Åse (voice/live electronics)

Trondheim Voices:
Torunn Sævik (voice/live electronics) (Maccatrol)
Ingrid Lode (voice/live electronics) (Maccatrol)
Heidi Skjerve (voice/live electronics) (Maccatrol)
Anita Kaasbøll (voice/live electronics) (Maccatrol)

In this set, the trio meets the improvising vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices. The ensemble is one of the very few (if not the only) vocal ensembles that have adopted wireless real-time electronics as an extension of the vocal expression.  (Maccatrol™ by Asle Karstad and Arnvid Lau Karstad.) This combination of nerdy vocalists takes place for the first time in connection with Fri resonans, and it is a meeting that is looked forward to with both joy and excitement. Chaos? Congestion? Human? Inhuman? Landscapes you have never been in before are expected to occur. For the occasion, Åse has composed an open piece for voices, electronics and improvisation which will be premiered this evening.

(Photo: Jarle Hvidsten)

Venue: Dokkhuset Scene

Anders Røine (vocals/guitar/droned zither/mouth harp)
Hans Kjorstad (fiddle/synthesizer/vocals)
Rasmus Kjorstad (fiddle/octave fiddle/droned zither/vocals)
Hans Hulbækmo (drums/percussion/synthesizer/mouth harp/vocals)

Reolô consists of four creative multi-instrumentalists with roots in Norwegian folk music and experimental music. Their critically acclaimed album “Andre sida” (ta:lik) came out in 2019 and this year the sequel is released. Their music moves freely between Norwegian folk music, via rock grooves with inspiration from both West Africa and America to pure bursts of energy. With lyrics about prepping, the flock of sheep at full speed towards the precipice and a hard spring, the band tries to say something about modern society, while the focus on groove, close interplay and old-fashioned tonality gives the music a slightly timeless touch.  

(Photo, Ånond Versto)

Venue: Dokkhuset Scene

Mauricio Takara (drums/percussion/electronics)
Carla Boregas (synthesizers/electronics) 

Mauricio Takara and Carla Boregas have long been key players in the experimental and underground music scene in São Paulo before relocating to Berlin. Boregas' warm and large electronic sounds together with Takara's distinctive drum sound with roots in jazz and improvisational music as well as Brazilian music, creates an organic layering of manipulated synthesizers and acoustic sound. As heard on their most recent album Grande Massa D'Agua (Great Body of Water) (2022), the duo explores themes related to water as they dive into uncharted musical depths. The two are also known for other projects. Carla co-founded the genre-bending punk band RAKTA and the transdisciplinary act Fronte Violeta. Mauricio Takara is part of Hurtmold, São Paulo Underground (with trumpeter Rob Mazurek), and has played with a wide range of musicians such as Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef and Naná Vasconcelos, and many others.

(Photo: Maiga Bugrimenko)

Venue: Dokkhuset Scene