Live Electronics

About the programme

Live Electronics is relevant for both musicians trained with a main instrument as well as ‘laptop’ musicians that rely solely on electronic interfaces to make and perform their music. We also welcome composers, songwriters and producers that seek to develop and perform their artistic project in a concert setting.

If you play an acoustic instrument, you will learn how to creatively expand your sound using music technology. If you come from a production background, this is an opportunity to transform your studio skills into a live performance setup, turning your gear into an expressive instrument on stage. 

There will be no written assignments during the course— music is at the center, your focus will be playing, thinking, listening, analyzing, experimenting and evolving your ability to integrate electronics into your performance.

We strongly encourage musicians with a classical background to apply if you are curious about hybridizing your practice into more contemporary and electroacoustic territories.

Different musicians and teachers will lead the workshops, each bringing their own way of playing and sharing their personal strategies. In the previous editions we have had the chance to work with musicians such as: Bugge Wesseltoft, Eivind Aarset, Nils Petter Molvær and Alva Noto, Hilde Marie Holsen, Mariam Gviniashivili, Øyvind Brandtsegg, Anja Lauvdal, Michele Rabbia, and others.

We strive for a wide range of instruments, skills, and backgrounds in our study. Students from electronic, classical, jazz, and popular music come together to find new ways of making and performing music.

What will you learn?

Through teaching and mentoring by international leading artists and professionals, we seek to educate students that hold international standards relating both to the nature of their artistic project and the manner of which this is conveyed in a concert setting. 

• You develop your skills within music technology and performance under individual guidance
• You learn different strategies for using music technology creatively
• You acquire various techniques to process and treat your own main instrument
• You develop your competence to express your own musical ideas in interaction with others
• You become better at making aesthetic assessments related to the use of music technology
• You gain in-depth knowledge of various techniques for improvising and composing with your main instrument through music technology
• You learn to incorporate existing compositions into your improvisation
• You learn about how to configure a custom setup to process your main instrument
• You acquire knowledge about developing, planning, and carrying out concerts associated with your artist project, where the use of music technology and collaboration with other musicians are central

Teaching methods and facilities

Workshops are a central part of the program and introduce you to various aesthetic and creative possibilities. We offer industry standard facilities for both performance and production, all through an innovative pedagogical framework.

Student life

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