Six months after 20 musicians/composers/sound artists met in Nida, Lithuania for the New Music Incubator, we reconvened in Oslo for the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, which was also hosting the Nordic Music Days. In Lithuania, each day we broke into groups of 4 and, with our topic for the day, worked vigorously to create and perform a piece that evening. Many of the pieces created there were site-specific, situational, or improvisation based, so we weren’t really sure what we were going to be doing when we met again in Oslo to perform on the festival.

We arrived two days before our performance for dinner, after which we had a meeting to discuss things. We reviewed the 20 works created in Nida though quick samples of audio and video to refresh our memories, and were then asked to write down one which we liked, but weren’t a part of, but would like to somehow recreate. Everyone was then tasked with going around to the others and indicating whether it was a performance we would like to help that person manifest. Our organizers, Martin Q and Ruta, then set about sorting through this information to figure what everyone would work on.

My choice was one from the last day. I liked it because it involved video, spatialization of the performers, and it was generally chaotic and noisy. I was just feeling that mood, I guess. Alexandra, whom I worked with on the third day in Nida, supported me on it, and it was the piece we were to recreate. The element we decided we wanted to take from it the most was the noise. I would have liked to have done something with video, but it wasn’t practical in the working circumstances. Also the spatialization wouldn’t have been so feasible because of the performance space at the Riksscenen in Oslo. So, we decided our recreation would be to improvise loud and noisy. We spent the next day working out some basic ideas and trying things, and I worked on my setup a bit. It was going to be quite electronic-based, and I had some new elements this gave me a chance to implement. Quite the opposite from the piece we did in Nida, where the decision was to do something acoustic, tonal, rhythmical, and overall jazzy. That evening we had dinner together and went to a concert of Polish-electronic music in the venue Nasjonal Jazzscene followed by some partying with everyone.

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Once the concert was over, we tore down, and met again for dinner followed by the concert next door, followed by a reception hosted by the festival. Hard to believe that the interaction between all these people in the same project was at an end. Although technically only having spent a grand total of about a week together, it was very natural being with everyone, and seemed as though we had all been friends for a long time. Our last task of NMI was to make arrangements with people to see and work with them again in the future somewhere. I hope Alexandra and I will get to work together again in Stockholm or Amsterdam, and several people are based in London and Berlin, where I also hope to do more work in the future. All in all, NMI has been a great and inspirational experience.

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