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Vedøya – klagesang til fuglefjellet som mistet stemmen #1

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Vedøya – lament to the bird mountain who lost its voice #1


A stereo mix of a 9-channel audio work

50 min, 2021

Complete credits:

Originally composed and mixed for a 9 channel surround setup by Elin Már Øyen Vister 

Stereomix by Robert Jønnum

Paal Rasmussen, speaker construction and surround mixing assistance

Kittiwakes of Vedøya, vocalization 

Elin Már, field recordings, editing, voice, voiceover, manuscript

Ingvild Austgulen, voiceover

Jostein Stalheim, accordion

Mikke Rönnberg, piano and organ 

Ola Høyer, bass

Kristine Tjøgersen, clarinet

Venke Tørmænen, plant-colored cotton textiles

Carina Beddari- manuscript consultation 

Annabelle Despard - translation to English

Accordion and voiceover Elin Már recorded by Robert Jønnum 
Bass recorded at Fluepapiret 

*The work contains an audio excerpt from the film “En sommer på Røst” (A summer on Røst) by Per Høst (1953)

*The work contains an improvisation  based on the melody "Blå Kveill", by Tove Knutsen

*The work contains a field recording of fieldwork with sea bird biologist dr. Tycho Anker-Nilssen and his assistant Roger, in July 2011. (www.seapop.no)

Supported by The Norwegian Arts Council and Lydgalleriet.

Vedøya – lament to the bird mountain who lost it’s voice #1

Elin Már Øyen Vister
i samarbeid med Knut Mastad (kunsthåndverk og knivkunst)

Flerkanals lydinstallasjon, objekter i tre, kunsthåndverk

Lydverket Av skog e vi kommen er opprinnelig mikset stedsspesifikt i åtte kanaler på Aamodtgården, Kongsvinger og vever sammen Elin Márs feltopptak fra slektsområder i Nord og Sør-Odal, og samtaler med de eldste i slekten, musikk og arkivlyd. 

Det minste galleri rommet er dedikert til kniv-maker og kunsthåndverker Knut Mastad, hvor Elin Már har valgt ut kniver, kopper, kar og ulike kuriosa fra hans samling. Knut Mastad er brorsønnen til Elin Márs oldefar fra Disi, Carl Adolf Mastad. Flere av valse-låtene som dukker opp i verket er komponert av Knut og for anledningen innspilt med Frode Haltli på trekkspill.

Medvirkende:

Elin Már Øyen Vister, vokal, tekst, feltopptak og diverse lyd.

Lina Salomonsen Sjølie, Lofoting og skogfinne,
har bidratt med laula (sang) og runolaula (runesang), samt med sin kunnskap om Skogfinner i fortid og nåtid

Frode Haltli, trekkspill

Medvirkende stemmer/informanter:

Erling Tømterud, 90 år, i Tømterud, Sør Odal

Knut Mastad, 89 år, Disenå, Sør Odal

Informanter:
Hanna Mastad (pikenavn Langvasslia), 91 år,
Disenå, Sør Odal, (oppvokst i skogen i Langvasslia, Nes)

Roar Lishaugen, informant, litteraturviter (historia om Sigfredstorpet, Odalen Finnskog)

Karl Arne Brustad – håndverker (Kroksrud)

Høytalerhetter, plantefarga med Odalske vekster av Elin Már Øyen Vister og sydd av Camilla Wexels Riiser

Installeringstekniker, Marius Wang

Musikk, lyd og arkivmateriale som høres i stykket:

 «Minon Kultani Kaukkana Kukkuu» (trad) Lina Salomonsen Sjølie, laulu/sang

«Kettu» (trad) – Lina Salomonsen Sjølie, runolaulu/runesang

Morsong (utdrag) - Erlend Apneseth trio med Frode Haltli (Salika, Molika, Hubro 2019)

Møllbauken - Svenskjävelen (Gammeldans fra hovedstaden)

«Glomdalsminner» - Knut Mastad (arr: Aage Ruud), spilt av Frode Haltli, trekkspill

«Vals» - Knut Mastad, spilt av Frode Hatli, trekkspill

«Minon Kultani Kaukkana Kukkuu» (trad) Improvisasjon over trad melodi, Frode Haltli, trekkspill

«Kulokk fra Brandval» arkivopptak av Laura Kjelling

«Kulokk fra Brandval» arkivopptak av Laura Kjelling, Improvisasjon over melodi, Frode Haltli, trekkspill

Av skog er vi kommen (Utdrag, excerpt 2)

Dear listener. Here you can listen to a dawn chorus from the gorgeous, green, and from ancient times holy valley of Bessaker. What you hear is the morning chorus of the birds accompanied by the eerie sound and feel of the windmills hovering over the valley on top of the mountains. These windmills are amongst the many on Fosen/Fovsen, which is also Åarjelsamien land / South Sámi land. This was recorded on a normal windy day. The noise at one point depends on the direction and strength of the wind. It is impossible to understand the noise level as you need to be physically there to experience it as it really affects your whole body. Without exaggeration, I would say it gave me a headache and I could sense some deep sub-bass frequencies too. If it´s uncomfortable to humans surely animals avoid it. We were maybe as much as several km from the windmill at this point. So it can be heard far down to the little coastal town of Bessaker on certain days.

Windmill noise in the holy Bessaker valley on Fovsen/Fosen

Plantesanger * Sjædtoej laavloeh * Plantsongs (2022)

This is a 2 channel downmix of a complex eight-channel work.
A dedicated stereo mix of the work will replace this file in the autumn of 2024.

Plantesanger * Sjædtoej laavloeh * Plantsongs is an eight-channel soundwork and installation

Plantsongs - Plantesanger - Sjædtoej laavloeh was initiated by Elin Már Øyen Vister with Heiða Karine Jóhannesdóttir Mobeck, and was created in collaboration with co-composers and musicians Natali Abrahamsen Garner, Erik Lukashaugen, Risten Anine Gaup, Lars Ove Fossheim and Håvard Aufles.
It was first presented at Trondheim Kunsthall (Trondheim/Tråante, NO/Saepmi) as part of the "Kunna Guanna Concha" exhibition, 2022/2023.

Documentation and complete credits of the work can be found here:

www.elinmar.com/plantesanger-plantsongs-sjaedtoej-laavloeh/

Plantsongs - Plantesanger - Sjædtoej laavloeh

Kittiwakes of Vishellern, Vedøya

Since this recording was made in the Visheller cave in the summer of 2011, the decline in the seabird population on Røst has escalated. During the summer of 2020 the bird mountain of Vedøya, including all the Kittiwakes breeding in the Vishellern cave, was gone.

Here is a small excerpt of a recording I did overnight at the bottom of the cave in 2011. The sonic sensation of a flock of Kittiwakes flying out of the cave and over you is one of the strongest and most mesmerizing sound memories I have experienced. To know that this sonic experience is now lost, is utterly tragic.

Statistically speaking there are no more Kittiwakes and Guillemot breeding on Vedøya. In 1980 there were approximately 1.5 million pairs of Puffins breeding in all of the Røst archipelago and on Vedøya only, 12000 pairs of Guillemots and 25.000 pairs of Kittiwakes. Nowadays, the overall Puffin population is down to around 200.000 pairs and the few Guillemots left are hiding in small caves and crevices. The last Kittiwakes of Røst is now clinging on in Kårøya and the little birdmountain of Gjellfruvær. If the decline continues, there will be no auks, guillemots or Puffins left on Røst in the end of 2030s or earlier.

Vedøya is the most famous of the bird mountains in the Røst archipelago. No more than thirty years ago there were more than 20000 pairs of Kittiwakes and 12000 Guillemots nesting in the steep cliffs of Vedøya. The soundscape was so loud it could be heard on the neighboring islands. In late March of 2010, I experienced a vague shadow of what it must have sounded like back then when a white cloud of elegant Littiwakes vocalized and moved in and out of the bird cliffs simultaneously. Today there are only a few thousand pairs of Kittiwake pairs left on Kårøya and Gjellfruvær, and the Kittiwakes are listed on the Norwegian red list as critically threatened.

The Lost Kittiwakes of the Vishellarn cave on Vedøya, Røst (NO / Sábme)

My track from Past Inside the Present's Healing Sounds II compilation:
https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/healing-sounds-ii-a-compilation-for-those-in-need

Walking Home In The Rain

A miniature composition created as a response and reverence of and to the land and the sea and all sounding creatures in the spring, in and around Lásságámmi, Ivgovuodna,  the final home of the Sámi listening artist-poet Nils Aslak Valkeapää aka Áillohaš.

https://www.lassagammi.no/elin-vister.6305154-97565.html

It was included in the first episode of Joar Nango´s "Post-Capitalist Architecture-TV”, for "Festspillene i Bergen", 2020:

https://vimeo.com/418776918?fbclid=IwAR0fCyHUwfXa7UIdvCrrKHV331LFQuyrppHbvQb9_Kc1bi5vBwcMWnnmEW4

The rhytms are created by drumming on large  whalebones with a wooden drumstick, inside the Lásságámmi house.
All field recordings were done on the shores of the Lásságámmi beach. The breath like sounds are porpoises fishing just outside Lásságámmi and coming up to the surface to breath.

Joar Nango Post-Capitalist Architecture-TV for Festspillene i Bergen 2020

Lásságámmi vájmonis guoddá - Lásságámmi hearbeat - Med Lásságámmi på hjertet

Solveig Aareskjold om norrøn forførerkunst.

Den erotiske litteraturen ble slett ikke funnet opp med Fifty Shades of Grey: Boses saga, som skriver seg fra tiden før nordmennene oppdaget Island, utmerker seg med sine mange obskøne innslag. 

Forfatter Solveig Aareskjold, som er vel bevandret i den norrøne litteraturen, kommer til Litteraturhuset for å snakke om hva våre forfedre kan lære oss om erotikk og forføringens kunst.

Forspill: Boses saga med Solveig Aareskjold

Tirenopptak

SA.PPRfjelldialog

Artist, poet, composer land/water defender Elin Már Øyen Vister´s sonic output. 

Leynar recordings is dedicated to releasing a pluriverse of queer, sonic, joy, soundscape compositions, experimental music and audio vibrations in all shapes and styles for the unforseable future. 

Leynar is dedicated to superb audio quality, and even more importantly; to quality over quantity. We strive to creating art that the earth can sustain healthily.

Leynar Recordings takes a critical look at the imperialist and colonial heritage in the historical field of recording and acknowledges that the recordings I do/have done, belong to the land /sea and peoples where I record, which is mainly on Røst, in Lofoten/Lofuohtta, traditional Séa Sámi land.

Lásságámmi vájmonis guoddá - Lásságámmi hearbeat - Med Lásságámmi på hjertet

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