selected work
sonic/performance
Vegar Vårdal - Norwegian Hardanger fiddle
Håvard Skaset - Electric guitar
Camille Norment - Glass armonica, electronics, voice
The Camille Norment Trio’s performance credits include the Jazzhouse, Copehagen (2016); Lisboa Soa (2016); Venice Biennial of Art (2015); The Kitchen, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art; Ultima New Music Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; and the Henie Onstad Art Center.
Reviews include The Wire, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Aftenposten, Kunstkritikk, and Nordische Musik.
This unique trio of voices investigates the visceral qualities of resonance, noise, and overtone, creating music that enacts and deconstructs cultural and historical positions relevant to each of the instruments. Their performance is an organic movement between the composed and the improvised, creating a dynamic soundscape that defies a fixed genre reference. Their mysterious sonic environoments hover at the meeting points of folk, rock, classical, experimental music, and more.
The trio’s music levels beauty with noise, and the consonant with the dissonant, as it embraces scratches, squeels, feedback, and taunting microtones as equals to purest of tones. It becomes like a slipstream of warping time and abrasive textures, often forming earworms and wooing songs. Simple melodic phrases reference one another forming of a memory that is at once psychological and somatic. It 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. The soundscape is enveloping, and the visualization is a captivating fulfillment of the hybrid world of art and music.
Each of the instruments was simultaneously revered and feared or even outlawed at various points in their histories. The sonic worlds they create resonate through a tantalizing union of the instruments’ voices and their often paradoxical cultural histories.
See the Toll performance series and recording.
Selected audio samples are also available at:
http://www.soundcloud.com/ravenhouse
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The Camille Norment Trio’s performance credits include the Jazzhouse, Copehagen (2016); Lisboa Soa (2016); Venice Biennial of Art (2015); The Kitchen, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art; Ultima New Music Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; and the Henie Onstad Art Center.
Reviews include The Wire, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Aftenposten, Kunstkritikk, and Nordische Musik.
This unique trio of voices investigates the visceral qualities of resonance, noise, and overtone, creating music that enacts and deconstructs cultural and historical positions relevant to each of the instruments. Their performance is an organic movement between the composed and the improvised, creating a dynamic soundscape that defies a fixed genre reference. Their mysterious sonic environoments hover at the meeting points of folk, rock, classical, experimental music, and more.
The trio’s music levels beauty with noise, and the consonant with the dissonant, as it embraces scratches, squeels, feedback, and taunting microtones as equals to purest of tones. It becomes like a slipstream of warping time and abrasive textures, often forming earworms and wooing songs. Simple melodic phrases reference one another forming of a memory that is at once psychological and somatic. It 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. The soundscape is enveloping, and the visualization is a captivating fulfillment of the hybrid world of art and music.
Each of the instruments was simultaneously revered and feared or even outlawed at various points in their histories. The sonic worlds they create resonate through a tantalizing union of the instruments’ voices and their often paradoxical cultural histories.
See the Toll performance series and recording.
Selected audio samples are also available at:
http://www.soundcloud.com/ravenhouse
