Huset spiller!
Bomuldsfabriken kunsthall
27. October 2018

Huset spiller! – or House music! brings together children, young people and professional artists in a large-scale happening organised by the music collective LEMUR. This is the third time that Bomuldsfabriken kunsthall and LEMUR have organised a creative meeting across art forms and age groups.

The production incorporates dancer and choreographer Siri Jøntvedt, visual artist Ellen Røed, composers Thorolf Thuestad and Jon Halvor Bjørnseth, and LEMUR’s Bjørnar Habbestad (flutes), Hild Sofie Tafjord (horn), Lene Grenager (cello) and Michael Duch (double bass), all interacting with children and young people aged 4 to 19. This year’s version has been composed for and with Bomuldsfabrikens spaces, in collaboration with Villa Mathilda kindergarten and music, dance and drama students from Dahlske upper secondary school in Grimstad.

Since 2011, LEMUR has curated the PB1898 concert series at Bomuldsfabriken. For several years they have been working on translating different forms of spatiality into musical works. In collaboration with Arup Acoustic in New York, they developed Critical Band, a site-specific work for highly reverberant spaces that is recomposed for each performance. In Mikrophonie the ensemble explored the internal space and acoustics of instruments, and in Lemuria they collaborated with composer Luigi Nono and architect Renzo Piano on the use of islands as a compositional and spatial metapho