Johannes Bergmark Works 1998-2001
cd 2001 featuring some of Bergmark's instruments, mixed pieces and some sound poems. Out of print.
Sound samples on the gallery pages!
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Sound Art ISBN 91-85470-83-X Infogram 045/1, a collaborative book and 2 cd project in cooperation with STIM/Svensk Musik, released October 2001. Feature with pictures, text and sounds. Main text by Teddy Hultberg. (Rumour says it now exists in dvd form - but it doesn't seem to be listed on Svensk Musik?) |
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"Katarina's Soviet Experiences"
Text-sound-composition, 18:00, described and heard here, commissioned by the author Maria Zennström, I made music and, in close collaboration with her, sound editing of her selected readings from her debut book with the same name, in 2001. This is released on Bonnier Audio together with three other debutants, "4 NYA" IFCD22 ISBN 91-7953-089-3 2001, as well as on a cd with a film based on the same book.
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Eine kleine Eierschneidermusik (Eggslicer Quintet), a piece with Hugh Davies, Martin Klapper, Mats Lindström and Adam Bohman, on a cd FMRCD104-0402 by Hugh Davies, released 2002, accompanying his book Sounds Heard, Soundworld Publishers, 10 Baddow Road, Chelmsford CM2 ODG, Great Britain. Description on page 52-54. Can be ordered from FMR Records.
I recommend this essay about Hugh Davies by Hal Rammel, where this book and recording is also mentioned.
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Psst ... shsh!, One ringtone on the joint Touch & Ash International project: Ringtones TONE14, CD in digipac [99 tracks]
Editors: JP Wozencroft & MSCHarding 2002.
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Cloudchamber: Safaris FYCD1020 released on Fylkingen Records in June 2002.
Johannes Bergmark - constructions (whalefish, finger violin, blowfish, metal harp), analog and modular synthesizers, clavinet, voice, saw, unspecified objects
Martin Küchen - soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, metal barrel, sandwich grill, miscellaneous percussive junk, bow, guitar, trumpet, voice
Sören Runolf - electric guitar, amplified objects, electronic processors, virtual modular synthesizer, cello
1. A Homely Safari
2. The Molly Hotwall Adventures
3. People's Safari of America
4. On a Tranquillizing Safari
5. Holes Through Holes
6. Half-Leopards and Semi-Turtles
7. Holy and Blind
Duration 72:13
Review on Sonoloco
The cd was nominated as "the best jazz [sic!] record of the year 2003" in Orkesterjournalen, jazz magazine in Sweden. |
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Bergmark & Klapper : 58 Tracks From A Common Orbit mg005
Johannes Bergmark (right): Finger Violin, voice, micro moog, harmonium, clavinet, Blowfish, objects, junk, Whalefish, gopychand, khamak, fuzz box, toys, Brillolin, arm trainer, radios, Veloncell Marcel, antique corn grinder + dissection
Martin Klapper (DK/CZ) (left): amplified objects, toys, tapes, Casio SK-5, polystyrene, glass, water + assemblage
Recorded by Johannes Bergmark and Sören Runolf in 2000 at Fylkingen, Stockholm (piece no. 1-43) and Artcinema OFF-OFF, Copenhagen (piece no. 44-58).
Edited by Johannes Bergmark.
Cover art by Martin Klapper.
All tracks by Johannes Bergmark (STIM) & Martin Klapper (KODA).
We suggest random playing of this CD.
Released by musica genera in Szczecin, Poland, May 2003.
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Mp3s of five pieces here. |
Review by Eugene Chadbourne.
Review by The Improvisor. |
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VHS video: Johannes Bergmark: Musical Performance, Instrument Inventions, Sound Sculptures and Sound Poetry.
59 minutes, homemade, 2003.
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Kalvdans, by Fågelpingis NP01, Nipstvångsministeriet 2004.
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Fågelpingis (Jacob Ullberger - Tomas Halling - JB) talk about that you have to be BUDDIES with death ... |
Jag vill ha barnbarn! NP02, Nipstvångsministeriet 2004, film by Fågelpingis on dvd and vhs with hand-made individual covers.
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Can be seen in web format here! |
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... from the film Jag vill ha barnbarn! (I Want Grandchildren!) |
The piece "Eh-Ah" on the compilation cd "GO-TO-CAT-MAN-DO" Mono 001, MonotypeRec, Warszawa, Poland 2005, a medley of variations on the theme of occasional songs of Nepal. Other contributions are:
Wolfram - T
Za Siódmą Górą - Nepalaia
One Inch of Shadow - Piesn 9
Stworywodne.Jaszczury - Untitled
Patryk Zakrocki - Nepal
Francisco Lopez - Untitled #165
Alexei Borisov - Saunabar Skretch Rmx
Vion & Mem - Kontra
Emiter - Untitled
V/Vm - Untitled
Robert Piotrowicz - At The Body Speech
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DVD: Najo Team: "Steps", Szczecin, Poland 2005 (sound editing at Notam, Oslo, Norway), a short film made with Nano.
Première at the π Private Impact festival by OFFicyna in Świnoujście, Szczecin and Berlin.
This is the first film of The Najo Team, duration 5'00".
Our feet, filmed from the head, climbing some stairs discovering small sand castles in which some metal pieces are hidden. After a few we meet and build up the angel chimes, light the candles and it starts playing. The piece is inspired from our performance "Knot Dance".
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Dvd: "Fish Soup"; music for a short installation film by Kathleen Fox, Kent, England.
"The imagery in ‘Fish Soup’ was generated by the random movement of organisms living in mud, an ancient timeless dance, evocative of the primal soup from which all life forms developed.
There is a limitless cyclical element manifested in the flow of imagery which has no specific beginning or end, the video itself set on a continuous loop to enhance the concept of time as infinite." Kathy Fox
The music was made by me, using the Whalefish.
It formed part of the exhibition 'Natural Order: Art, Science and The Clarity of Mud' and at 'The 5th International Symposium for Surrealism' at West Dean in '07. It was also shown at a festival of Surrealism that the Leeds Surrealist Group organized.
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A photo by Kathy Fox of the film while on the computer screen. |
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The viewing box Fox made to house it. The box is covered with rabbit skin fur, and can only be watched one person at a time as a private experience. |
. . . I N . . . P R E P A R A T I O N . . . (more or less)
Dvd with no name yet, music for an installation film by Kathleen Fox, Kent, England.
for the following exhibition:
Freud Museum London
26 August 2010 - 10 October 2010
Kathleen Fox
The Spaces of the Unconscious
This multi-media installation by artist Kathleen Fox is part of the established series of contemporary art exhibitons at the Freud Museum London.
Kathleen Fox situates her practice within the critical context of surrealism, a movement explicitly grounded in creative response to Freud's psychoanalytical discourse.
The exhibition is centred in a collection of mounted boxes that use light, sound and texture to introduce themes of eroticism and death that underpin the realm of the unconscious. The work aims to model and explore Freud's spatial concept of the conscious and unconscious mind - for which he used the metaphor of a house and its component rooms.
Set in a space that was previously Freud's bedroom, the exhibition is divided into two areas; the conscious and the unconscious, with a sensor standing between the two. The positioning evident in Freud's hypothesis will be reversed: the first area to be entered will be the room of unconsciousness, furnished to give the impression of a domestic space. The viewer is then invited to pass through a membrane into a second darkened 'conscious' room, which houses the mounted boxes whose contents are only revealed on close inspection through small apertures.
The installation questions the way in which the thresholds between the conscious and the unconscious are negotiated and how the viewer is impelled into spaces that are simultaneously real and imaginary. It invites re-assessment of how Freud's therory has been utilised and developed within surrealism, something which will be a central theme of the accompanying one day conference, to be held on Saturday 09 October.
The artist has exhibited and published her work internationally, often within the context of surrealist group activities, notably the exhibition 'As far As My Legs Can Carry Me' at the Terezin Memorial Museum in the Czech Republic (2008).
The exhibition has been made possible by the generous support of the Henry Moore Foundation and Norwich University College of the Arts.
For further information please contact info@freud.org.uk or +44 (0)20 7435 2002
The Freud Museum London website.
Kathy Fox invited me to make music for a film she is displaying in the exhibition. I won't publish it until you've seen the exhibition, but meanwhile, look at another similar collaboration we did here.
Facebook-event.
Cd: SIXTY INTERPRETATIONS OF SIXTY SECONDS to be released at Apprise Records.
A compilation by David Sait in Brampton, ON, Canada, with the concept “To hear how sixty different improvising musicians would interpret sixty seconds. Execution: I pose the question... How would you interpret sixty seconds through an improvisation? Your Answer would come in the version of a sixty second improvised recording on your instrument.”
Other contributors include: Andrea Centazzo, Michael Snow, Michael Keith, Leon Gruenbaum, Toshi Makihara, etc, etc......
My piece is recorded at EMS in Stockholm, sweden the 1st of April, 2010. I play my recent instrument Platforms (in this case a single one, usually I have two) with objects. No overdubs, no cuts, no treatments except slight compression.
Cd: Johannes Bergmark: Solo. Fylkingen Records.
Cd: "Fjær og Jern", Hornorkesteret and guests, Norway,
To be released in the autumn 2008, it contains concert- and studio recordings from 1999-2008. One of the tracks is from our concert together at Trondheim Kunstmuseum, called "Bergmark's ridge", as a kind of geografical reference. | The same track is accessible as "Ship of fools" on the Hornorkesteret web site since a couple of years. I play Finger Violin there. |
There's also a collaboration with Anla and Roberto from Reynols called "Reynols' Peak". It will be the first release on Panot, PANOT CD001.
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Dvd: Johannes Bergmark: Musical Performance, Instrument Inventions, Sound Sculptures and Sound Poetry.
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Duos on a cd by Jair-Rohm Parker-Wells.
At present, it is being mixed in New York by producer/engineer Marc
Urselli-Schaerer.
Meanwhile, here's a sample from our recording:
Bergmark: electronics, constructions, voice. Wells: bass guitar, electronics.
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Jair-Rohm Parker-Wells.
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Ghost story music, with Per Åhlund.