Music is known as an efficient emotional trigger, but physiologically speaking our auditory senses has the potential for creating multi-sensory experiences and sometimes making it possible for us to accomplish seemingly impossible tasks. Among the gastronomic diverse experiences on offer in Berlin you will find the restaurant Unsicht-Bar, a place where the guests dine in … Continue reading Everything is connected – entangled senses
Directing our attention
Listening intentions part 1: It is all about attitude
In order to talk about music you need words to name the different parts of it. In traditional music there is a wealth of terminology for elements such as pitch, rhythm, timbre, dynamics and tone which can all be used in order to put our experience of the music into words. But what happens when you are … Continue reading Listening intentions part 1: It is all about attitude
Listening intentions, sound-pollution and singing tapestries
In an earlier post on this blog, I mentioned the book "The Soundscape" by Canadian composer and writer R. Murray Schafer. The word “soundscape”, one of Schafer’s designs, is used to describe our sonic environment, all of the everyday sounds which surrounds us in our lives. Schafer talks about how these soundscapes have changed because … Continue reading Listening intentions, sound-pollution and singing tapestries
The inner and outer experiences of music
Having just returned from the annual Trondheim chamber music festival KAMFEST I had some thoughts in my head, spurred by the many musical experiences there. KAMFEST has always been one of my favourite festivals in Norway as it always seems to somehow be able to think outside of the Box when it comes to chamber music and … Continue reading The inner and outer experiences of music
The lost art of listening
This blog centers around the lost art of listening. I am a musician, therefore listening is a main topic of my life. So what do I mean by "listening"? Well, for starters there is a big difference between hearing and listening. Hearing might be said to be an automatic response when encountering soundwaves whereas listening … Continue reading The lost art of listening
The listening experience 