Borderline Festival 2019 | 3rd Day

"Murmur" installation: Maia Urstad (NO)

Onassis Stegi | Foyer +4
Admission free

Talk / presentation of Halldorophone by Halldór Ulfarsson (IS)

Onassis Stegi | The Galaxy Space
Admission free | Reservation is required. For reservations, please contact infotickets@sgt.gr (providing name, surname and mobile phone number)

“Mixer”: Christof Migone (CA) in collaboration with Dafin Antoniadou, Angeliki Karampela, Paul Koutselos, Anastasis Priftis, Stefanos Syminelakis and Joanna Toumpakari

Onassis Stegi | Main Stage
Admission is free, on a first come first served basis | Entrance tickets will be available 1 hour before the event

acte vide (GR) & Raed Yassin (LB)
Thomas Brinkmann (DE)
Rouba3i (LB) & Tony Buck (DE)
Onassis Stegi | Upper Stage | 5 — 7 €

"Murmur" installation: Maia Urstad (NO)

Radio FM 88.1-107: Recording the FM waves, Tuesday 19.02.2019, Bergen, Norway.

In Maia Urstad’s new installation “Murmur,” portable FM radios are suspended from strings in front of the windows in the exhibition space of the Onassis Stegi. Visually, the radios shape the continuous oscillation wave of the Sine wave. A composition of soft, white noise – often associated with radio interference – is broadcast via multiple FM transmitters: a sonic wave moving from radio to radio throughout the installation.

Sound artist Maia Urstad has used the radio as a sound source and aesthetic medium in many of her installations. Her work often questions how we communicate, what we use and what we dismiss from the sounds we hear every day. “Murmur” examines soundscapes in our history that are on their way to obsolescence. In 2017, Norwegian Broadcasting and other radio stations left the FM broadcast band in favour of DAB+. The diversity of program-makers is reduced to just a few local stations, and the FM band appears as a ghost medium with only remnants of broadcast, interference and blank spots.

As new technical inventions enter the market, our soundscapes change character. Typical radiophonic sounds disappear, often without us being aware, as new ones enter the stage. “Murmur” invites us to retain a curiosity to what is left behind, to what we might otherwise forget or let slip from our consciousness. The installation is an ode to the sounds found at the border between highly present and forever outdated.

Maia Urstad’s installation “Murmur” was supported by BEK (Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts)

“Mixer”: Christof Migone (CA) in collaboration with Dafin Antoniadou, Angeliki Karampela, Paul Koutselos, Anastasis Priftis, Stefanos Syminelakis and Joanna Toumpakari

A mix of works presented in simultaneity. The layered performances explore repetitive gestures, sonic references, and somatic rhythms. Mixer activates space and thrives in the interstices – ranging from brief eruptions to longer sustained activities, from discordant surges to subtle moments. Mixer is a list of verbs: translating, holding, swaying, measuring, writing, flipping, lying, dropping, scratching, interpreting, repeating, reading, collaborating, aging, breathing, pushing, dragging, poking, imagining, releasing, muting, noisying, counting, testing.