The Camille Norment Trio is a musical performance ensemble composed of Camille Norment (glass armonica), Håvard Skaset (electric guitar), and Vegar Vårdal (hardingfele). This unique juxtaposition of voices explores the penetrating qualities of the instruments’ resonance, overtone, and spatial presence through the spectral tensions of consonant and dissonant sound.

The aesthetic motifs of resonance, feedback, and melodic drone complement trajectories in minimalist music, while offering a unique approach that is firmly situated in the contemporary. Tension and release, abrasion and delicacy, ‘beauty’ and ‘noise’ intersect the psychological and somatic meeting points of noise, rock, improvisational, folk, and experimental music in a manipulation of both formal and cultural psychoacoustics.

In honor of the permanent outdoor sound sculpture commission Within the Toll (2011), the Camille Norment Trio will perform a series of concerts at the Henie Onstad Art Center.

Glare
22 April 2012
Henie Onstad Art Center
22 min

Glare cycles the listener through lulling and abrasive textures inspired in part by the instruments’ relationships to ideas of magic and the uncanny, hypnosis and trance, and noise as a psychological atmosphere.  In addition to formally manipulating consonant and dissonant tonalities, Glare makes use of simple repetitive musical phrases; fragments that are reminiscent of lullabies, wooing songs, and earworms. 


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Toll
11 September 2011
Ultima New Music Festival
Henie Onstad Art Center

The first in the series of the Henie Onstad Art Center performances, Toll references Arvo Pärt’s Fratres in its musical investigation of the visceral qualities of sound through the seductive voices and cultural codes of the electric guitar, the hardingfele, and the glass armonica. Toll’s incarnation of Pärt’s “sonorous overtone of bells” is formed from a resonant ambience that includes ‘noise’, feedback, and dissonant/consonant tensions, creating a mysterious beauty that itself resonates through the psychological and somatic. This work is also a commemoration of the the tragic events that took place on 11 September 2001 in New York and 22 July 2011 in Oslo, as well as a celebration of the birthday of Arvo Pärt.


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