Buespenn – Truscott & Mental Overdrive

Jamie Bivard

Apr 5, 2018

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Next week, Thursday 12th April at Verdensteatret in Tromsø

NOSO – The Nordnorsk Opera og Symfoniorkester, will host a collaborative concert with Matthew Truscott, while Per Martinsen aka Mental Overdrive will record the musicians directly to make a live remix and improvised re-interpretation of the works.

The concert is now sold out, however friends of Insomnia Festival have the opportunity to receive a limited number of tickets for half price, and we will also select 3 lucky winners who will receive a free ticket!

To enter, simply send us a private message via our facebook page, titled ‘Buespenn’ along with your full name, to be in with a chance of winning.

Competition closes on monday 9th April at midday.

For more information about the concert, follow the links below:

https://www.noso.no/konserter/buespenn

Insomnia Festival at European Lab Forum

Jamie Bivard

Apr 5, 2018

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Have you ever considered attending a yoik concert between a panel about art & activism and another one about the blockchain revolution?

This is exactly the program Sónar+D, Resonate Conference and Movement+New Ideas (Insomnia Festival) created together for European Lab forum this year.

For more information, follow the link below
➔ https://bit.ly/2Ejn5G0

Jenny Hval, Maja Ratkje and Katarina Barruk to visit Sònar Barcelona

Tommy Ose

Mar 13, 2018

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For the third year, We are Europe returns to Barcelona. From the 14 to the 16 June, as part of its 25th anniversary, Sónar welcomes three We are Europe partners: Insomnia (Tromsø, Norway), Nuits sonores (Lyon, France) and Resonate Music (Belgrade, Serbia). Each one of them invited artists related to its own artistic identity.

Insomnia presents the Norwegian avant-garde experimental artist Maja S. K. Ratkje who will perform together with Sami vocalist and joiker Katarina Barruk for a chaotic and magical exclusive performance – titled “Avant Joik”. The Tromsø-based event also curates the extravagant and provocative spirit artist and writer Jenny Hval.

More about We Are Europe can be found here

 

Tommy Ose

Feb 9, 2018

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Sex Tags & Andres Lõo inviterer til en gåtur (med lyd på øret).

Idag fredag 9. februar inviteres du til å delta på en (ca.) 1 times gåtur gjennom, og i, Tromsø by sammen med Andres Lõo og Sex Tags. De fem første påmeldte vil få en mp3 spiller og hodetelefoner til utlån og kan høre på et lydverk spesielt laga for denna anledninga.

Første gåtur starter klokka 19:00, og vi møtes på Verdensteateret.
Om du garantert vil ha plass send gjerne reservasjon pr. SMS til 4829 6349.

Lydverket er et kollasj av musikk og diverse arkivopptak, som i samarbeid eller hver for seg, er laga av Andres Lõo og Sex Tags. Det er en enkel narrasjon av lyd og musikk hvor gåturen og ens eget øret er selve “visningsrommet”. Samma kveld mellom 23:00 – 03:00 vil flere deler av materialet spilles på Café Circa av DJ Sotofett hvor øret og samvær vil skape en helt annen tilnærming til lydbildet.

Det er godt kjent at de fleste visningsrom, gallerier og museer som regel er de minst egnede arenaer for eksperimentell musikk og lydkunst. På den andre sia kan konsert og klubbsituasjoner mangle den isolerte lytteeffekten. Lyd og musikk må forbli uavhengig og det er et felt hvor lytteren kan ha nesten eneråd, i sterk kontrast til andre type kunstformer. Derfor må også presentasjonen av lyd og musikk i seg selv forbli uavhenging, om det er plateutgivelser, distribusjon av musikk, konserter, klubb, radio, lyttekvelder el.

Andres Lõo er bosatt i Tallinn og har i over 20 år vært en av de mest aktive musikerne innenfor elektronisk og eksperimentel musikk i Estland. Han har arbeida med eventer og utgivelser på Laton fra Østerrike, Rakett fra Norge og skal gi ut to plater på Sex Tags Amfibia vår/sommer 2018 – deriblandt et jazz album i samarbeid med Jaakko Eino Kalevi og DJ Sotofett.

Sex Tags starta sitt virke i Moss, 2001. I tillegg til å arbeide med utstillinger og stedsspesifikke prosjekter har det vært høy aktivitet med de to plateselskapa Sex Tags Mania og Sex Tags Amfibia (med mange flere sub-platformer). Fokuset ligger på egenproduksjon og egendistribusjon, utgivelsene er enkle og alltid 100% kompromissløse. Det er gitt ut plater med bla. Bjørn Torske, Geir Tore Holm, Doc L. Junior, Kambo Super Sound og Don Papa.

We Are Europe: Insomnia visits Nuits Sonores

Tommy Ose

Feb 7, 2018

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We are Europe continues to follow its own momentum. This year, in the frame of its 16th edition, the electronic & independent Lyon-based festival Nuits sonores (06 – 13 May) welcomes 3 partner festivals from Spain, the Arctic and the Balkans: Sónar (Barcelona, Spain), Insomnia (Tromsø, Norway) et Resonate (Belgrade, Serbia) respectively.

Together, we have curated the festival’s opening party, hosting one of Belgrade leading electronic activist Kӣr (invited by Resonate), DJ and producer Charlotte Bendiks – aka Tromsø’s ambassador for body music – (invited by Insomnia) and the Italian, Madrid-based producer Bawrut (invited by Sónar).

Insomnia showcases our emphasis on multiple genres in electronic music by presenting: the legendary Dopplereffekt, a bouncy, fresh live-set from Romanian producer Borusiade, and Norwegian Italo boss Skatebård – these three will all perform during the first ever daytime program of Nuits sonores. Elsewhere, Insomnia also presents German artists Lena Willikens and Helena Hauff, whose eclectic, superb DJ-sets are well known, as well as the dance noire of Swiss producer Aïsha Devi and Israeli duo Red Axes’ organic, trippy live-set.

The We are Europe program of European Lab forum, Nuits sonores’ concurrent forum of debates and ideas, will be announced next month.

Full press release here: LINK

Insomnia@TIFF 2018

Gjøa Orheim

Jan 19, 2018

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Insomnia Festival proudly presents the Closing party for Tromsø International Film Festival. This year the party is done in collaboration with Kulta, who will provide performative entertainment throughout the evening. Prepare for an event with live concerts and dj sets on all three stages @ Studentsamfunnet Driv!

Get your tickets here!

For full line up, click here!
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Local talent Third Attempt is kicking off the event at 2145  

Third Attempt had his live debut at Insomnia Festival in 2017, and is now presenting a new concept with jazz musician Øystein Bolstad. Together they produce jazzy house and electronica. You can expect an atmospheric sound with improvised solos and energetic rhythms.

 

 

Man Duo is the second coming of Jaakko Eino Kalevi and Long-Sam: cherished producers and good friends from Helsinki whose 2012 debut Amateurs de Vérité refracted outsider electronics through the prism of psychedelic folk. Now the pair are back with a new name and a new album, Orbit, that takes the exotic pop we’ve come to associate with both artists far beyond the dancefloor and out into the cosmos.

 

                         

Rag Dabons is a duo composed by Sandro & Gabriel from Parisian label D.KO Records. Well known in the underground Parisian scene, Sandro & Gabriel share their vision of music. With subtlety and positivity, their dj sets relates the adventures of Jesus and the Dinosaurs, spoken with House Music and Electronic Music words.

 

Sarah Farina sprinkles positivity over the darkest bass. She’s innovative, she’s skilful, and she’s the smiling antithesis of genre cliques and sour scene elitists. What you hear is all you need to know. And what you’ll hear from Sarah Farina’s sets is seamlessly blended bass-heavy footwork and futuristic beats, with fearless forays through R&B and UK Funky. It’s inclusive, forward-thinking and unrestrained. It’s a genre-rejecting style that she’s named rainbowbass. Sarah Farina is part of the SHAPE platform 2018 artists. For more info see www.shapeplatform.eu

 

 

Other local heroes providing for this party are Vj Malin Lin Nordstrøm, Dj Shabby Chic and Dj Klitter, warming up and Vj-ing at Isbjørn stage. And for those of you that just want to hang out and talk: Insomnia All Stars plays lounge at the cafe.

Insomnia Festival 2017 in review

Jamie Bivard

Nov 1, 2017

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THANK YOU to all of our staff, volunteers, artists and the venues, for all coming together and making such an incredible festival this year. Our biggest thanks goes to YOU the public, this wouldn’t have been possible without your support. We truly hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, and look forward to welcoming you all again next time!

 

Our media team have collected their best photos from the festival into the following albums. We hope you will enjoy re-living some memories from this year’s festival.

Thursday
Friday
Saturday

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Thursday @ Insomnia 2017

Jamie Bivard

Oct 27, 2017

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It’s been a great start to the festival, with concerts at Verdensteateret and Driv.

Have a look at last night’s photos here and today’s program of events here