Description
The aim of the project is phonographic documentation and strengthening of bonds between Polish and Norwegian electronic music. The project focuses around 3 pioneers, who started collaboration in Polish Radio Experimental Studio: Arne Nordheim, Kåre Kolberg, Eugeniusz Rudnik. The project combines cross-generation exchange with international exchange and includes activities such as: - digital releases of Nordheim’s and Kolberg’s electronic compositions, - producing new works by contemporary Norwegian experimental artists - Maja Ratkje and Helge Sten, - 6 concerts in different European locations performed by Ratkje and Sten and 2 Polish artists. The Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and the Arts – is as a project partner responsible for research of Nordheim and Kolberg’s “Norwegian” period and coordinating activities of artists from Poland and Norway. The project will raise international interest in accomplishments of Nordheim, Kolberg and Rudnik, and boost the mobility of artists and their works and help more Europeans to more easily access this music. It answers the need of learning common roots, traditions and contacts by modern European communities.
Summary of project results
The aim of the project was the recollection, phonographic documentation and reactivation of bonds between Polish and Norwegian electroacoustic music and presentation of their individual character and unquestionable significance on the international scale. Primarily, the project was a response to the need of learning about common roots, traditions and contacts in modern European communities. In the second half of the 20th century music constituted a space of deepened exchange and cooperation of Polish and Norwegian composers, sound engineers and music theoreticians. One of the main proejct goal was to present this heritage, have it thoroughly analyzed and promote it in Poland, Norway and outside these two countries. On the one hand, the project’s addressees were experts in experimental art history, on the other hand, the project sought to reach a new club audience. The project helped integrate heterogeneous – in terms of culture and environment – groups of both recipients and creators of electronic music as well as present and promote this type of creation originated in Poland and Norway with special regards to its global meaning, cultural distinctiveness and diversity. The long lasting, educational (due to 3 language versions of critical essays) documentation of the project are 4 different album releases.
Summary of bilateral results
The partner’s role was to support the Applicant in research of Norwegian sources – unpublished recordings, alteranative versions of published recordings, scores, composers’ sketches, essays, as well as direct contacts with experts. Together with the mentioned experts and the Partner, the Applicant decided about final programs of CD albums and concerts, list of original works to be reinterpreted by invited modern artists, as well as about contents of theoretical and historical essays attached to CD albums. The Research included obtaining permissions and licenses to graphic materials, which was another duty of the Partner. His tasks was include coorganizing concert and – if necessary – recording sessions in Norway. The strengthening of bilateral relations between Norway and Poland most of all concerned the area of protection and promotion of cultural heritage which undoubtedly constitute pioneer accomplishments of Arne Nordheim, Kåre Kolberg and Eugeniusz Rudnik in the Polish Radio Experimental Studio. This heritage turned out fundamental for the later output of the above mentioned musicians and for the history of electronic music in both countries and around the world. What helped strengthen those relations: on the one hand – critical, digitally revived and annotated with deepened historical commentary phonographic editions of the milestones of experimental music and art created on the Polish-Norwegian cultural borderland, on the other hand – an initiative to start cooperation between modern creators of electronic music from both countries based on this joint heritage.