Past Events
24.05.08:
17.10.07: Pssst!
Norbergfestival inviterer dig, dansk, som svensk + resten af verdens
nationer til foreningens årlige ordinære generalforsamling
i Danmark.
Indkaldelsen ER rettidigt udsendt til alle medlemmer, men bare for
en sikkerheds skyld lægger vi den også ud på vores
website.
Lördag d. 20 oktober 2007 indkaldes der hermed til ordinær
generalforsamling/årsmöte i föreningen NORBERGFESTIVAL.
Dagens program:
15.00 Evaluering/utvärdering af årets festival
17.00 Lysning af ordinær generalforsamling/årsmöte
i föreningen NORBERGFESTIVAL
19.00 Aftensmad/Middag (Thai + vegetarian) Billigt (dansk) fad øl
19.00 Fest med live electronica: Peter Ericsson (SE), Drafix Aztech
(DK), The Spoofkats (DK)
??.?? Til den lyse morgen....
Adressen er
TEMPLET
Jernbanevej 16
DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby
S-tog lige til døren fra Nørreport eller Kbh. H (5 min
gang til Templet)
Fra Helsingør:
Kystbanen til Klampenborg og derefter bus/taxa til Lyngby Station eller
Templet.
Motorvej (Nord - Øst):
E4 - sving af ved LYNGBY Ø-C - forbi Statoil/Klampenborgvej,
gennem Lyngby C - til højre ved stationen.
Motorvej (Vest-Syd):
E20 - sving af ved Buddingevej - mod Lyngby. Fortsæt til under
järnvägs viadukt - første til venstre.
Hey...vi ses ;o)
Kærlig hilsen
NORBERGFESTIVAL 07/08 CREW
01.08.07
Dear visitor
Just like that the music turned off.. The sun went up and the camping
was abandoned... This years festival was over...
With around 85 artists on 3 days on 3 stages, our festival wasn't
that small at all...
Norbergcrew wishes to thank u all for attending v. 8.07 and making
it a commercial succes. We will continue our job towards the next version.
The open summit was a great succes, and we hope to see a lot of good
men and woman join forces, re-organising the festival structure.
Keep it up through-out the winter!! See u all!!
Love
Norbergcrew v.08
24.07.07
Schedules Up!!!
Finally time is up for the annual electronic gathering in Norberg,
and a comprehensive musical programme are ready for download
elsewhere on this site.
While adding a few more artists:
Goodiepal (dk)
Anders Ilar (se)
I - snor (fr)
Grimus (aus)
We are sorry to wave goodbye to:
Deathdub (se)
Runar Magnusson (isl)
DJ musician (isl)
En halvkokt i folie (se)
- Who all for some reason couldnt forefill their original deal with
us.
See u all in a few days!!
Love Norbergcrew v.08
17.07.07
Dear visitor...
Only a few more days to go, and the NBF crew gives you another handfuld
of artists, before launching the final schedule. There is no other place
to be on the 27-28. july- and you should be ready to leave for Norberg,
with your backpack, your tent and an open electronic mind..
Get up, get going, and go to Norberg!
Latest artist-update:
Resident VJ's:
Vj's poorly xerox'd (dk)
Vj varm (dk)
WintherStormer
(no)
Komponent.dk:
Noise machine trucker tour and LAB presents:
Vinyl terror & horror (dk)
SCReening IPT (dk)
Skrøeder (dk)
GEIGER Showcase:
Marcus Fjellström
(se)
Visuals by Liam
Frankland
Anders Forslund & Axel Rudebeck (se)
Tony Blomdahl, Michael Lloyd & Martin Öhman.
Camp 303 proudly presents:
En halvkokt I Folie (se)
Fibra (dk)
99.musik showcase:
OAM
fap
Paste-up
xorb
Christian
Björklund
Elisa
och Agneta
99musik.com is a swedish online community devoted to all kinds of music..
check it out..
See u all soon
Love from the NBF 08 crew
13.07.07
Citat: KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
"Det dröjer inte länge förrän alla schlagerfabrikanterna
kommer underfund med att det är billigare med elektronisk musik
och så får vi dansa elektronisk rock'n'roll" (Göran
Bergendahl - våren 1959)
Are you ready for electronic rock'n'roll ?? Get your tickets now !!!
Only two weeks to go !!!
01.07.07
Dear visitor
26 days to go. The festivalsite looks green and ready to recieve the
annual invasion of musiclovers, freaks, nerds and goodlooking boys and
girls..
We are happy to announce that
KID 606 (ven) has confirmed his apperance on norbergfestival,
playing a set on both the mimer and the kraftwerk stage.
Furthermore the Stockholm-based partycommunity SVAJ
is attending Norberg with a show consisting of:
Discopunk
aka Dj Aroma (de) - live
Tobias von Hofsten (se) - live
Mighty Thor
(se) live
Anaya (se)
Ola J (se)
Sol (se)
Jungle (se) - visuals
Nrlnd (se) - visuals
And the youth of Vesterås-based Unga Perspektiv are presenting:
Thomas Gunillasson & Tomas Nygren aka VJ BabyFace
Sekvens
Kaburu w. Chris Cook
Doglife
Also the Camp 303 has a few more artist to offer:
Traffic crew (se):
Irk
Systematic
Limbz
Kallback (se)
pitchplant (se)
Love - and see u soon..
NBF crew
19.06.07
Dear visitor
Only 6 weeks to go before we open the gates of mimer and we are exited
and eager to get the fun started..
We are happy to announce that Ström has confirmed their show on
this years festival, presenting Håkan Lidbo, Claudia Bonarelli,
Mats Almegård, DJ knivflickan, Googolplex and Mikronesien on the
Kraftwerk stage.
Furthermore we are adding:
DJ Spykidelic (uk)
P. Jørgensen (dk)
Yoke & Yohs (dk)
Enjoy - and see u soon!
Check back for artist-updates. More to come…
03.06.07
Dear visitor
Saturday June 9th the Norberg socierty proudly presents an evening
of true spot-on Norberg entertainment..
Rumpistol
Kid Kishore
Sofus Forsberg
Tone
Elektronavn
At Stengade 30 - Cph. N - Doors at 21.00 - Entrance fee 75 DKK
01.06.07
More artists added to the festival programme.
22.05.07
Dear Visitor
Finally...After a long period of consideration, doubt and in the end;
Major changes in the festival organisation, we are ready to go on-air
with a new version of Norbergfestival
The festival has transformed into a 2 day event, playing music on 3
stages this year. As always you will find a broad varierty of electronic
wierdness and cool clubfeeling at Norbergfestival, combined with videoart,
networking, and real-time swedish summer festivalexperience...
Camping opens Thursday 26/7 at 17.00 and closes Sunday 29/7 at 12.00
A lot of work still remain and we are happy to welcome the people around
SAS and Sync 24 in the norberg socierty.
An open Summit on-site, discussing the festival and the future, hopefully
will bring more swedes, representing organisations or not, into the
norberg socierty.
Sofar we are proud to present these fine artists:
Pamelia
Kurstin (aut)
Detektivbyrån
(se)
Mats
Lindström (se)
Karsten Pflum
(dk)
Tom
Collins (dk)
Tone
(dk)
Jonatan
Liljedahl (se)
Daniel Karlsson (se)
Sofus Forsberg
(dk)
Pink
luminous invocation (dk)
Kid Kishore
(dk)
Micro Moneeo
(se)
Thomas Bjelkeborn
(se)
Ida Lundén (se)
Videokonferens (se)
Showcases from
IDKA - Institutet
för Digitala Konstarter
EMS
- Elektroakustisk Musik i Sverige
Fylkingen
Unga Perspektiv - Västerås
Check back regularly for artist updates..
Love NBF crew
26.11.06
HO-HO-HOOO and a fine bunch of electronica artists, gathering to support
Norberg Festival on Stengade
30 in Copenhagen.
December 2nd from 9pm to 5am. Entrance fee 80 DKK.
Full-on electroblast on two floors.
here's the flyer
The
X-dump (se): Lithis, Dorothys Magic Bag og Psilodump
Sten
Ove Toft (no)
Andre
Borgen (no)
DJ Jesper PG (dk)
The
Spoofkats (dk)
Kusari
Gama Kill (dk)
fibra
(dk)
iLLpHABETik
(dk)
Prafix
Aztech (dk)
and many more...
See you there!
Love NBF Crew
Thank you!
It's over, like blinking in the night, where all the magic happens in
the split second your eyes are closed. The three day electronic tour
de force known widely as Norberg festival, has been wrapped up, and
only the Mimer tower holds on to vague vibrations, reminding us that
next year, we will rise again to offer you the best in new experimental
music.
Our hearts are bursting with joy and gratitude, to our partners, to
the inhabitants of Norberg, to the artists playing, and last, but not
least you, dearest guest, who chose to come and make the three beautiful
July days count. Already, improvements are discussed, new expansions
considered and teams getting their heads wrapped around Norberg festival
2007. Can you feel it?
29.07.06
Saturday is here, with the best set up yet, we play a l l night this
night. The mining pit and its concrete tower has been resounding for
three days now of furious rumblings, infernal noises and soft ghostly
music, as if The Mimerpit's history is being rewritten directly from
within the deep, and interpreted by people with instruments. A sensation
suspected of appealing to the most primitive and the most evolved in
a person.
Ash International
The Ash International label was founded in 1993 as an audio-visual organization
by Mike Harding and Robin Rimbaud ? a kind of sub-label to Touch. For
13 years, Ash International has been putting the limits of audio art
to the test. Electronic communications, radio emissions and other natural
frequencies are an endless source of material.
"On stage, a bunch of laptops are lined up. Behind them is a couch,
seated in it is members of Ash 13 international showcase. One of them
gets up, approaches on of the many lap top, press something and sound
starts rolling slowly. We are literally talking audio art here. Large
static sound images, reminds of a tapestry or painting you can enjoy
hours on end. The many people gathered in Mimerlaven is sitting or lying
around, people close their eyes and some fall asleep. The blue light
that slowly fans over the walls works beautifully with the soft sounds
that sounds distant, and under water. Sometimes powerful rushing sounds
cuts through the soft sonic carpet and the whole performance reaches
a massing, meditative atmosphere. The sounds rings out as deep spheres,
droning on up to twenty minutes at a time. It is hard to take it in
as real music, also they have chosen to keep the volume level down,
compared to other acts that obviously intended to tear the Mimer tower
down. Ash 13 fit perfectly well in the mining pit and at a festival
for electronic music, although it is hard to point out where else they
might fit in. After four hours travelling, in company with Ash 13, it
takes quite some time to make it back home again."
Theis Egeberg, MyMusic.dk
Sushi Brother
After having been bombarded with electronic music of all kinds, ones
critical sense does not become less sensitive. In the moosepit here
was scattered talking over table tops, not too much attention paid to
the Sushi Brother on stage. The music didn't really make any demands,
but swung itself lightly with airy and pretty anonymous synth patterns.
The simpler, more thoughtful tracks were the most interesting ones.
Most of it seemed like an electronic sort of funk-fusion, with little
riffs, hi-hat rolls and basically a drum programming that tried to emulate
real drums. Sushi Brothers strangely short and somewhat incomplete tracks
came of as a slightly anonymous whole, a friendly sort of electronic
elevator music.
David Andresen. Mymusic.dk
Chez Debs
Chez Debs and Les Complexes played in a pretty much packed Kraftwerk,
the concert had been moved from Moosepit due to trouble finding a projector
and was given the best possibilities for a full blown aggro chick experience.
The digi-punk electro clash had highly energetic intentions that at
times hit the spot, but over all was derailed by semi-bad sound and
sloppy productions, and a performance that didn't quite dare follow
through on the riot grrrl attitude that seemed a built in promise, as
the crew entered the stage.
There were a lot of great ideas, also quite a few silly ones in the
set, but the performers seemed too uncoordinated and inhibited to follow
through on it, and somehow it felt as if the bad commandeering dominatrix
one had hooked up with, really just wanted to hold hands and cuddle.
Jan J?rgensen, MyMusic.dk
Milanese
Within the gloom of Kraftwerk, Milanese kick started a bitter grind
consisting of slow and heavy break beats. The four tracks following
the intro were nothing less than eminent. The recipe was quite simple,
and only can be described as a "Boost the bass"-approach. It was brilliantly
made, and hit the listener pure and clean, I got associations to a very
young and very angry Prodigy. Obviously the ill tempered performer got
the audience right where he wanted them, doing a fevered bump n grind
like nobodys business. Such a delicious state must eventually collapse,
and the concerts energy fell to a more comfortable level. Milanese shouted
out louder, the sounds clashed and the ideas played out loud became
less extraordinary, the transformation of the concert ended in rave-like
conditions, as I fled the scene before the final collapse.
David Andresen, Mymusic.dk
People are scattered all over the area, taking in the last unbridled
thrusts of pure electronica energy. As Kraftwerk opens its huge gates
in the end wall and beautiful light and gritty party music spills out
into the night, as one listen to the insisting hum of the Mimertower,
as one see the dancing people giving it up big for the select DJ's in
the Moosepit, Norberg festival reaches its true vibe of a place for
human and cultural hook ups of any kind. The well known and the undiscovered,
the calculated and the heart felt, the party and the meditation. All
meet, all come together. Norberg festival has once again underlined
its necessity as a focal point for art music and experimental sounds
in Scandinavia.
28.07.06
The camping area awakes. The unofficial "camp 303" stage, put up by
faithful visitors of the festival and Swedish fans of Roland machinery
(any number will do,) were the last to quit, dangerously close to four
in the morning, which is the time Norberg festival has permission to
play it out loud to. We like! A lot of people comes to the festival
gates, and all of sudden, the area is fully inhabited by bleepers and
freakers of all kinds, coming to get their fix of the good stuff.
Fridays program starts with Slutsp?rt, doomdrone kids extraordinaire.
Slutsp?rt from the label Ninth World Music is at the heart of the experimental
music collective yoyooyoy. Yoyooyou has given over 200 shows in Europe
and has 18 releases in their sack. Sl?tspurt is: home-build instruments,
instruments ripped apart, instruments hardly working. Recently Sl?tspurt
has experimented with drones, feedback and noise, witch often lead into
playing very long pieces using violin, laptop, saxophones, ethnical
instruments with elements of folk inspired improvisation.
Sl?tsp?rts monstrous sound emanates from conventional instrumentation,
guitar and saxophone, only a small laptop betrays the analogue purism.
Hooked up to enough stomp boxes to sink a midsized cargo ship, these
guys made the walls of the Mimer stage shudder with the slowly modulating
waves of noise, and I briefly wonder if the structure is strong enough
to keep the sounds inside, or if it will burst like a paper bag full
of gasoline. Starting at volume levels that can only be described as
insanely loud, I was surprised they could wrestle additional dB out
of their equipment. Really energetic in spite of the slow/no pace and
really recommendable.
Jan J?rgensen, MyMusic.dk
The festival spreads into the streets of Norberg, the small town looks
in wonder and bewilderment at the festival guests, mostly not looking
like the local kids at all. One that does look like she belong in the
swedish summer, though, is Band Ane.
At your right you see love, at your left melancholy and in the middle
you'll find Band Ane from Jenka Music. Band Ane invites you into a and
naive soundscape with delicoius samplings of xylophone, guitar and film
sequences in a mix of drum'n'bass, ambient and broken beat.
On the Kraftwerk scene, Band Ane played both well known and new material.
The constellation, vocalist, rhythm section and Ane behind the lap top,
has clearly evolved over the last year, but the question is how well
the acoustic and the electronic parts mix? The already massively well
reviewed material that Ane strews generously around is still of a unique
beauty, especially the new vocal oriented. But the conflict between
the apparently funk/jazz trained, way too overbearing rhythmic group
and the latest electronic rhythmic approaches takes the expression two
opposing ways. Band Anes machine music stands well on its own, and must
be adapted somehow, if the material has to be showered in unbridled
musicianship. Over all, a positive experience of a more complex Band
Ane, who has added a welcome touch of seriousness.
The sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard (dk) has a rare ability to translate
abstract, esoteric ideas into actual music of high artistic quality.
Kirkegaard will perform 4Rooms; an investigation of the sonic legacy
of Chernobyl at four separate locations in the area around the stricken
nuclear power station. Kirkegaard who knows Mimerlaven well believes
this to be the perfect setting for this piece.
"The both provocatively simple and sombrely throbbing drones by Jacob
Kirkegaard, blew through the Mimer tower like a sonic storm. Somehow
unapproachable, with a frightening authenticity, the sounds of silence,
enlarged to an apocalyptic swoosh, that at times almost took on physical
shape in its overpowering strength. If one was in the mood for patient
absorption the work presented itself with worrying clarity, as a cynical
audio observation of the basic existential building blocks.
All and nothing. Absence and presence. An expression so coolly clean and thoroughly
executed that the story behind the project might add nuances to the
experience and help understanding the intentions behind.
Moving around the area starts taking longer time, as one meet and greet
people talked to last year, people from back home and not least, folks
you never met before. There has been no trouble apart from the VERY
devoted security people, combined with let's just say strange, alcohol
restrictions that prohibits crossing a distance of about 20 meters between
"legal" beer zones.
IAPMI (Institute for Applied Plastic Mechanical Instrumentation)
IAMPI are presenting a unique musical instrument. The two musicians
have incorporated several smaller hand-powered music generating mechanisms
within one large LEGO tm. construction. The small mechanisms work as
musical instruments amplified by contact microphones. When IAPMI goes
on to the Kraftwerk stage, it will be with the pristine sound of pure
plastic.
"Kraftwerket is the size of a tennis court, it is dark except from two
spots pointed towards a tiny village built of LEGO's. Curious audience
takes a closer look at the constructions. Small LEGO-men are holding
wires connected to two laptops. A mixer constitutes the body of a giant
spider with legs running through the colourful plastic city. The two
band members starts turning, tweaking the Lego machines, that sends
strangely disturbed signals into the lap top to be looped there, again
and again. Each composition is based on the same instruments, and the
two "kids at play" doesn't seem to have any more control of their Lego's
than my two year old nephew. That the instruments consist of Lego's
seems of less importance, since any randomly constructed thingy with
contact microphones glued to it would produce the same sounds. Nothing
really makes the compositions stand out from each other. The two musicians
don't really seem interested in what they are doing, fiddling semi-randomly
on cogs and seem as attentive as four year old kids at a funeral."
Theis Egeberg, MyMusic.dk
There's a lot of people here as night come creeping in, macro parties
are erupting everywhere, and everybody is doing their best to have a
good time. There is a bit of good-natured teasing between Danes and
Swedes. Mostly it seems that we agree, we are pretty much alike, or,
at least, equally thirsty.
Murcof (mx) from the Leaf label began experimenting with electronic
sound and classical instruments in 2001. Murcof delineates the emptiness
and the cold by means of the electronic structures with sober precision;
however, he also controls this cool, steely universe with acoustic tone
thus imparting a faintly glowing drive to this sonic journey, leaving
the listener thoughtful and strangely exhilarated.
"The huge Mimerlaven is crowded before the concert starts. People are
standing, hanging and lying in every nook and cranny of the concrete
bowels of the tower. The interior looks like a scene from a postapocalyptic
science fiction movie, where a dusty collection of rejects is summoned
to follow the words of their spiritual leader. A blue light shimmers
through air thick with smoke and dust and the smell of ground water
from the old iron mine sets the scene for the Mexican born ambient musician
Murcof.
Murcof has dug deep and compiled a set that fits the surroundings perfectly.
The music seems to be dragged directly from the red-black ground water
with spheres that flows into every frequency range ? and Mimerlaven
responds instantly and throws the sound back mercilessly with its hard
concrete walls. It is all so perfect that most of the audience sits
down with a dreamy gaze and takes it all in as a near religious experience.
Murcofs sound rises slowly to a level where nothing else can be heard.
He knows exactly what his audience wants and takes three rounds of applause
with him when he leaves the scene. When it is over it is almost like
waking from a dream and exactly how much time that has passed by is
hard to tell. A quick look at the watch tells me that it has been far
too short, and everyone wants more. But there is something beautiful
about the brief concert and the journey through Murcofs sombre universe."
Theis Egeberg, MyMusic.dk
27.07.06
It's finally happening!
Thursday afternoon, Norberg festival started off with a blast, people
found their way to Mimerlaven, the massive grey mining tower hulking
over Norberg city, to see Streamflower, Streamflower (dk, usa, it) is
a software based sound community. With help from the latest technology
and software Streamflower synchronize and break up their sound material
live at sessions. In the company of three performance artist you'll
find hanging from the ceiling in Mimerlaven ? Streamflower creates an
improvised performance that despite the large community of seven members
is tight and structured.
"Streamflower slowly opened up for a world of machine sounds and improvised
dancing. Long, metallic synth pads cut through the inside of the concrete
giant as a sonic reflection of the machinery that used to work in the
tower. The abstract, expressive performance demanded patience and absorption,
but, if allowed unfolded a dimension, wherein the three dancers with
vulnerable and animalistic intensity invaded the space between the raw
concrete walls and the audience. Like psychedelic ghosts from the depths
of the mining shafts, Streamflower staged and utilized the essential
character of the place."
David Andresen, MyMusic.dk
It rapidly becomes obvious that the program has a wide span and contains
all your little heart can desire of beeps, clicks, furious machine screams
and beats that cleave skulls, as you wander the festival area.
-
The collective Atoi is working with minimalistic electronic soundscapes;
a mixture of electronic beats of digital end acoustic noise and sound
from classical instruments. Atoi plays and improvise their way to the
final work. The vocal featured in Atois music is a universal "gibberish"
and they are connected to the label: We love music.
"Atoi played a koncert that didn't really break any barriers, but in
its format leaned towards contemporary pop music. On those premises
Atoi's compact trip/clickhop beats, guitar, cello, bass, Rhodes, and
a lead sing that gave associations to Anja Gabarek, and Lisa Ekdahl,
made for a sonic smooth ambush. Atoi's sound is complex and ambitious,
but surprisingly well executed because of the strength of the compositions,
good hook lines and the depth of the arrangements. At the same time
I missed more focus and intensity in the over all expression, and in
the performance of the musicians. The contrasts could be clearer, in
spite of that, is Atoi one of the more promising Danish attempts to
expand the genre that is trip hop."
David Andresen, MyMusic.dk
The people attending the festival seems to knows what its all about,
listening to cool electronic music and partying, and both activities
are into the red. The Moosepit dance floor is filling, and people are
grooving on and breaking it up like there is no tomorrow.
Printer is released on the Statler and Waldorf label. Electronic experiments,
indie pop territory, with a dirty and danceable twist. With a slight
majority of techno based songs, the ambient pop side makes a good contrast
and adds depth.
"The Moosepit tent hosted Danish Printer at midnight. Self assured they
pointed towards the 80's electrohouse. Lazy vocals with British accent
on top of skinny elastic synthesizer and a static, throbbing bottom.
The snarling guitar that filled out some of the tracks, when they reached
their climax was a gift for the otherwise well known and tested style.
With a joyfully dancing audience in front of them, Printer seemed like
a clean cut and thought through band in the very poppy end of the spectrum,
but cleansed for any real musical surprises, Printer at the same time
seemed unnecessarily speculative."
David Andresen, MyMusic.dk
The duo MoHa! is dealing with the pressures of playing improvised music
in the post-braxton continuum... Lately they have gotten themselves
into noise-based rock textures and the good old cheap contact microphones
as well as claiming to be contemporary by doing the extended technique
thing. MoHa! consists of Guitarist Anders
Hana and longtime friend Morten J. Olsen.
MoHa! is the latest Rune Grammofon signing and the youngest artists
on the label as well.
"A drummer and a guy with a guitar seems oddly out of place within the
industrial strength concrete walls , liberated from cables, wires, laptops
and strange sound warping boxes in general, but the massive sound exuding
from the two analogists had a perfectly fulfilling harsh noise feel
to it. Broad spheres of bow driven guitar combined with jagged drumming
made for a journey into somewhat hostile territory no blood drawn, but
a nice ringing in the ears that speaks of high volume and a reviewer
enticed to take in the whole messed up concert."
Jan J?rgensen. MyMusic.dk
Thursday night ends after Friday begins, and Norberg has once again
shown its magnetic pull on the electronica minded people, staggering
to their tents to sleep a few hours before another fine day off the
beaten track starts up.
26.07.06
Hi kids! Here's some good-good LAST MINUTE news for you, before the
electronica haven also known as Norberg Festival v. 7/06 descends upon
us. It goes something like this:
The sky here is blue, the grass is green, the lake is 20 degrees, the
beer a lot cooler, the program is crammed with the finest sounds, and
volunteers and crew is working their butts off and yet, everyone seems
to be smiling. You want to know why?
Because this years Norberg festival will be THE break-a-mountain-shake-
a-lion-rock-a-bug-and go-electro-nuts-party of ALL times. We just know.
Thats why! No excuse for not showing up.
25.07.06
Dear Visitor
One day to go before camp 606 open the gates for u people - And the
site are looking just perfect.
The Norberg weather is summer all over. 3 days of sun during festival
build up, and there is much more to come.. We are exited and ready for
u people.
Check out Artist site and schedule and get to Norberg!!
19.07.2006
the lucky ones have landed in norberg!!! it's serene here... and very
quiet.
so we're looking forward to next week when you'll come around and noise
up this place!
if you're in copenhagen and haven't bought your ticket yet, here's a
great offer: we're selling the last tickets to the DJ-bus.
1200,- dkk including festival and camping.
woohooo!
leaving cph, dgi-byen, at 12.00 on the 26th of july, leaving norberg
again 12.00 on the 30th
if you're interested please contact:
ticket(at)norbergfestival.dk
18.07.2006
we are so sorry... But the NBF website has suffered of major server-breakdown.
it could not have happened at a worse time - but apparently - that's
life... but now we are back... with a lot of new names and other important
information... so enjoy! lots of happy thoughts and fingers crossed
from the NBF crew. we are all looking forward to seeing you next week
in norberg...
11.07.2006
at norberg v.6.05 The Skull Defekts featuring Lasse Marhaug played a
shocking & beautiful concert as a part of our midnight noise series.
published by the label AA with the title Open the Gates of Mimer, this
?ber-aesthetic hand printed and limited edition CD got excellent reviews.
here's the cover
The Skull Defekts will be back at norberg v.7.06 in a new avatar. in
may 2006, The Skull Defekts travelled south to the abandoned church
which is the home and studio of avant cello improviser and performer
Amit Sen. the upcoming Riot Season LP "Phase" was recorded during the
intense sessions, and deep, almost psychedelic atmospheres and drones
was created. on the 28th, at midnight of course, The Skull Defekts will
perform as a trio, filling Mimerlaven with bent strings and long treated
electronic drones. deep shit, man...
on the first day of the festival, midnight noise will be represented
by norwegian duo MoHa! noise based rock that will shake Mimerlaven.
the last midnight noise show this time around will be by swiss artist
Phroq, who works on the tension between programmed and accidental results,
between electro acoustic music and sheer noise.
25.06.2006
we do have some label show cases at norberg, yes. but since the underground,
the undergrowth, the underworld is vital for this festival we have also
invited some less established communities of musicians to put together
their ideas for the future of
electronic music:
The Lindblad Studio Show Case
is a presentation of what some of the students at the School of Music
& Drama at
G?teborg University is up to.
MyMusic.dk Show Case
at this year?s edition of the norberg festival, MyMusic.dk will present
a show case with electronica artists and users from the largest community
of musicians in denmark. the names selected represent a wide selection
of musicians in the electronic underground, which is starting to pop
up at the Danish live scene through networking, communication and visibility,
partly on MyMusic.dk. on the opening night this show case will start
at the kraftwerk stage and will consist of: Tone, Hip Hop Minuttet,
Dr. Lazerlyde, Prafix Aztech and EX PMX, who will also play this coming
week at the roskilde festival.
Upsweden Show Case
will present some up- and coming swedish electronic live music. some
musicians connected to this posse have made it to norberg before i.e.
Skomm & V?nliga J?tter and this time around they come to show us what
their friends are up to. check the artist site later to find out who
those friends are... all we can promise for now is grime, mash-up, elektro
and synth pop (of course, we're in Sweden, after all ;-)
15.06.2006
after many requests, the norberg crew has decided to reopen the open
stage!
please check out CAMP 606 for more info.
11.06.2006
looks like Touch is having a ball in norberg this summer... apart from
the tightly packed
Ash International showcase two renowned artists from Touch itself will
test the audio space of Mimerlaven:
Jacob Kirkegaard haven't been to norberg since he played with Philip
Jeck back in 2003 so we eagerly await his return! with him he brings
a concert build upon his latest work 4 Rooms, a sonic presentation of
four locations inside the "zone of alienation" in Chernobyl.
4 Rooms was released on the 26th of april this year ? exactly 20 years
after the disaster. Kirkegaard will use the industrial feel and the
reverberation of Mimerlaven.
Oren Ambarchi has never been to norberg before and are we thrilled to
welcome him??!!?? the deep ambience of chimes, drones and guitar manipulations
will make for the perfect chance to actually melt into the vast, chill
space Mimerlaven can be.
however much the NBF crew loves ambient there has to be something to
make mind and body move as well!
Murcof will show us how a warm swedish summer day turns into a sweet
night while your pulse change with the perfect beats underlying his
haunting tunes.
People Like Us will simply baffle you!!! if you don't know the crazy
radio princess
Vicki Bennett get ready to have your head twisted, your jaw dropping,
and your mind marinated in quirkiness.
ooh yes, sounds like norberg all right!
04.06.2006
norberg v.7.06 is extremely proud to host an evening with one of the
central labels for experimental audio, Ash International:
Ash 13 with: Alvars Orkester | Leif Elggren | Carl Michael von Hausswolff | BJNilsen | Jana Winderen | The Ash International Sound System
for 13 years, Ash International has been putting limits for audio art
to the test. Disinformation, Bernd Friedmann, Hazard (BJNilsen), Scanner
and Carl Michael von Hausswolff all had releases put out by Ash in the
1990s and since then the challenges keeps dripping from
Mike Harding at Ash. this is also the label where you can find the von
Hausswolff-curated installation piece Freq_out and the von Hausswolff
and Leif Elggren art project
The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland. at norberg, Ash International will
present some of their most celebrated names together with new acts Jana
Winderen (no), and Alvars Orkester from G?teborg.
31.05.2006
the artists site has been updatet, check it out...
20.05.2006
hey! out there! it's soon!
on may 6th the norberg crew opened the doors for a night of musical
insanity AND for this year's festival season. at stengade 30 in CPH
we were happily tormented by Ryfylke, dreaming with Bichi and his friends,
mesmerized by Atoi, laughing our heads of with
Je M'appelle Mads and finally ? for those who still had the energy ?
jumping all over with Karsten Pflum. great night, great crowd, great
start......
the good news (!!) over the next weeks names will be announced for this
year's festival
(some of them even demanded by our guests from last year!)
+ we will again have a tiny cinema running in the mine
+ there will be a seminar for all you music freaks (check back here
for details)
+ if you live in oslo & want to come visit but don't have the money,
we're considering stealing a bus to transport you to norberg and transform
you into a proud norberg activist (write in the forum under 'transport'
if you have the guts to meet this challenge)
the bad news (??) the norberg festival have been forced by a principle
of fairness to close ticket sale for minors = you'll have to be 18 before
the 27th of july 2006 to get in.
conclusion: it's time to buy a ticket and start thinking about which
weird piece of clothing you'll bring for the ?ber-creative stine W to
make you some unique norberg merchandise......
YEAH!
NBF-crew
Yesterday's News
Closing in on the annual Norbergfestival the NBF crew is proud to welcome
you to this years version of norberg modul. This event will take place
on the 6th of may 21.00-04.00 at Stengade 30 ? Copenhagen. The evening
will be a perfect taste of what the festival is all about presenting
old and new friends:
Atoi (DK)
Bichi (DK)
Je m'apelle mads (DK)
Karsten pflum (DK)
Ryfylke (NO)
Doors at 21:00. Entrance fee 80 DKK. www.stengade30.dk
Atoi (DK): The Danish electronica-collective Atoi is working with minimalist
electronic soundscapes; a mixture of electronic beats of digital and
acoustic noise and sound from real classical acoustic instruments. Atoi
plays and improvise their way to the final work. The vocal featured
in Atoi?s music is a universal gibberish which gives the listener room
for free musical interpretation.
Bichi (DK): is the Danish producer Tobias Wilner. Toby lives in Copenhagen,
where he's also known as a key and founding member of Electronica Pop
Project, Blue Foundation. As a band, Blue Foundation is democratic in
writing, playing and producing. In contrast to the democratic band,
Toby has full control of production and final output of Bichi. As a
result, the sound is more minimal and twisted, not concentrating on
too much vocal and acoustic instruments, but still keeps an eye and
an ear open, for the effect these elements can have.
Je m'apelle Mads (DK): Call him the Danish underground hero number 1
insanemultiartist or tragicomedy clown. Call him sex mad crazy or completely
ridiculous. Or just call him everyone?s musical antihero ? Je m'apelle
Mads! Popular meets avant-garde ? dining music mixes with electro with
a good portion cheesylistening ? a touch drum n?party and heiko hip
hop. The sound is extrovert and happy with a shot of poetic self-inadequacy.
Karsten Pflum (DK): Complex hard beats on a journey into the magical
forest! The Karsten Pflum album Flugten fra år 2000 [The escape
from year 2000] is an ingenious and at times schizophrenic mix of themes
from the middle-ages - cunningly cutup rhythms - sweet pop intermezzos
and sometimes bombastically teasing. Pflum perpetually examines the
borderline between narrative complexity and ambient vastness ? underlined
by a great deal of humour and irony and always caring greatly for his
subtleties and details.
Ryfylke (NO): Consisting of Sten Ove Toft and Stian Skagen stands out
as some of the most interesting and sofisticated sound artists in Norway
today. Ryfylkes interesting soundscapes is made up from the duos different
approach in dealing with sound. On one side Toft is working with fieldrecordings
of objects and other analoge foundsound that he carefully processes
in his digital environment to make a maelstrom of brutal swings and
layers of sonic walls. Skagen works with digital feedback, raw datafiles
and numeric codes. This material is shattered into cascades of pulses
sparkling multiplicity of atonal glitches. A Ryfylke performance is
a physical experience in constant movement.
Love NBF Crew
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