On my way to Bratislava to work with Milos Valent and The One Music project, a crossover chamber group that touches Slavic music, Baroque, Improvisation and world music. Will also hold a master class at Cirkevne Konservatorium. Looking forward to hearing my piece Katapult in action with these excellent musicians!
Spektrafon
Here is a link to a presentation of a project I have developed at the Norwegian Academy of Music in collaboration with Anders Tveit. It is a live performance sound tool that “ grabs “ frequencies in the harmonic overtone series of any sound source and projects them to a surround system.
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Siwan´s latest album "Hafla" has been nominated to the Spellemann award 2022
This is Norway´s highest prize in music and the ceremony is on the 17th april.
Ayshyin Rayqin/Siwan/Mona Boutchebak
Here is a short film from our last tour, produced by Elisabeth Nord and Musikk Innlandet. The tune is Ayshyin Rayqin from the first Siwan album and we hear Bjarte Eike violin, Jon Balke keyboards and Mona Boutchebak vocals.
Unique concert at Korsholm Music festival in Vaasa, Finland
Tonight 2 august, we present a special edition of Svante Henryson´s music at the Korsholm Chamber music festival, featuring Joakim Milder sax, Morgan Ågren, drums, Jon Balke misc keyboards and Svante himself. Performing at the old Ritz cinema at 19 hrs.
More than Ever screened at Cannes Film Festival
More Than Ever , the new film by Emily Atef was screened on 21 may in the Un Certain Regard program at Cannes Film Festival, followed by a long standing ovation by an enthusiastic audience and jury. Thanks to Svante Henryson, cello and Sven Andreen for audio mixing at Klokkereint studios in Gjøvik
The Siwan story-Podcast
Firste episode of Emily Naylor´s podcast on Siwan and its history, musicians, poetry and work process is published at https://open.spotify.com/show/7n6OBMBIyxCxjCSLSpogRM?si=b9e153fef87e4647 and other platforms
Below is the cover photo by Sarah Murtaja, a young photographer from Gaza, Palestine
the nerve-wrecking travels in Covid times.
In order to finally get to start recording Siwan 3 for ECM, we had to take some chances. Even after trying to read all instances of information about actual Covid regulations, we could not be completely sure that we could enter Denmark. For Jon Balke,, arriving first from Norway, taking the test at Kastrup and walking out , it went easy. The real thriller was Mona Boutchebak , arriving from France, with Algerian passport. But also for her , armed with a letter from ECM , all she had to endure was a short interview about purpose for her stay. The next in line is Derya Turkan , arriving from Istanbul. More will follow.
Interview for Jazzviews.net
Here is a thorough interview by Nick Lea going through a great part of Jon Balke´s musical production.
