07/10/2025
Interdisciplinary concert- Sonisk Selskap at Wrap 12.10.2025
9th edition: Highest Heaven, Empyreum. Led by Sonic Sheriff Hilde Annine Hasselberg
Concert/dance/drawing starts at 15.30
DOORS OPEN AT 14.30.
Tickets: Kr. 80/60 at the door, VIPPS
Also livestreamed at: (coming)
For the ninth edition of Sonisk Selskap, “Highest heaven, Empyreum”, Hilde Annine Hasselberg brings together a never-before seen ensemble with double bass, cello, organetto, pedal steel, guitar, percussion and voice. Following Sonisk Selskapet tradition, Hasselberg has invited both musicians that she knows from before, and some that she has never worked with before.
Following two days of sonic experimentation in Wrap’s AV Lab, supervised by a full technical crew led by sound engineer Mathias Grønsdal, the musicians will be joined by dancers from ImproLaBergen and visual artist Øystein Nesheim, for an interdisciplinary improvisation.
Sound and video-over-network technology will link performers in various rooms throughout the entire arts centre, and the audience will experience an immersive audio-visual concert with projections from the dancers and visual artist who react to the music in real time from other rooms.
Some of the musicians have never yet played together before, which is exciting in itself.
Highest Heaven, Empyreum Ensemble led by Hilde Annine Hasselberg:
Cello: Ragnhild Sannes
Percussion: Bruno Tagliasacchi Masia
Vocals/Harpeleik/Glockenspiel: Hilde Annine Hasselberg
Double Bass: Eline Rafteseth
Organetto: Anders Hannevold
Pedal steel/guitar: Henning Mjanger
ImproLaBergen (participating dancers from the collective who improvise to the music):
Ewa Lorenc
Teresa Kurowska
Katja Nyqvist
Rita María Muñoz Farías
Malin Nøss Vangsnes
Ine Terese Hogstad
Guest: Veronica Robles Thorseth
Choreographic Score: Katja Nyqvist og Veronica Robles Thorseth
Visual Artist (Spontaneous drawing in real time with music/dance):
Øystein Nesheim
Technical Director: Leo Preston
Cheif Sound Engineer: Mathias Grønsdal
Assistant Sound Engineer: Leo Preston
Camera (dancers, artist and musicians in Studio B): Julia Cremers and Nils J. Nesse
Streaming & video-over-network: Thomas Brandt and Julia Cremers