Fortellerorkesteret started out as a further development
of one part of the performance
Concert for Greenland and has turned into a fully automized installation.
Moving objects, sound, video, light . No humans involved.
The performance Concert for Greenland was based
on a journey to Greenland
undertaken by Verdensteatret in 2003.
Fortellerorkesteret is a room-installation.
An electro-mechanical abstract theatre.
A construction that function as audiovisual "animation-machine"
where images, sculptors,sound and video is deeply integrated into each other
and which hopefully result in a musical composition of stories and images.
By use of different motors, robotics and custom software the whole construction
is self-running.
The technological tools together with the more mechanical instruments at use
make up an ensemble
wich become directly creative, live in the construction.
The installation can be viewed as a machine, as one complex autonomus instrument,
or as a whole orchestra with many voices and tunes, many shapes and many stories.
Fortellerorkesteret is made by:
Asle Nilsen, Håkon Lindbäck, Piotr Pajchel,
Lisbeth J. Bodd, Rune Madsen, Christian Blom.
Other artists involved: H.C. Gilje, Trond Lossius.
Fortellerorkesteret was shown in Trondheim, Norway between 31.10 and 11.11 2008.
In June 2008 Fortellerorkesteret was presented
in Beijing at NAMOC,
The National Art Museum of China, as a part of the exhibition Synthetic
Times.
Fortellerorkesteret was presented together with an installaton based on material form louder
at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, October - Novemver 2007.
In september 2006 Fortellerorkesteret was shown at Kunsthaus Graz, in Graz, Austria
as a part of the festival Steiricher Herbst.
Back in 2004 Fortellerorkesteret was running at TOU Scene, Stavanger, Norway in the month of november.
Fortellerorkesteret was shown for the first time in an old fish-plant
within the course of Stamsund International Theatrefestival in june 2003.
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