Browse by Label: PRISMA (NORWAY)

Artist:	BERGE, SIGURD
Title:	Early Electronic Works
Label:	PRISMA (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PRISMA 708CD

Prisma Records is proud to present the first release dedicated to the music by the late Norwegian composer and electronic music pioneer, Sigurd Berge (1929-2002). This release showcases some of Berge's earliest experiments with tape-machines and early synthesizers. The music is taken from three reels found in the Henie Onstad Art Centre music archives in 2009. The reason why these tapes were located at the art center is probably because Berge worked for several years at the NSEM - Norwegian Studio for Electronic Music, located at the art center. Berge also was a central part of the electronic music concert series Elektrofoni which took place at the center from 1968 until 1983. On the first tape were the unreleased pieces "Preludium," "Ritual" and "Sørgemusikk" and the pieces "Erupsjon" and "Eg Beisla Min Støvel." On a different tape, was the musique concrète piece "Delta," which Berge also used in collaboration with the avant-garde jazz group Svein Finnerud in 1970. The second part of this release is dedicated to one of Norway's first multimedia art installations entitled "BLIKK." The work was commissioned for the Henie Onstad Art Centre in 1970 and created by the artists Irma Salo Jæger, Jan Erik Vold and Sigurd Berge. The installation consisted of Jæger's kinetic sculptures, Vold's abstract poetry and Berge's electronic music, all blended together with one of Norway's first computer-generated laser-light shows. The multimedia piece was so complicated to produce that the engineers Halvor Heier, Birger Komedal and Harald Schiøtz were hired on for technical assistance. The pioneering work "BLIKK" was exhibited at the Henie Onstad Art Centre between April-May in 1970. Prisma Records is proud to release one of Norway's most acclaimed experimental composers and electronic music pioneers for the first time on a complete CD release.

Artist:	ORNING, TANJA
Title:	Hommage À Anna-Eva Bergman
Label:	PRISMA (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PRISMA 709CD

In 2002 the performer and cello player, Tanja Orning, was asked by the director of the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Karin Hellandsjø, to play at the opening of an Anna-Eva Bergman exhibition. Tanja Orning decided to compose a completely new piece for the occasion inspired and dedicated to Bergman's art. The piece was entitled "Hommage À Anna-Eva Bergman." In February 2009, the large retrospective exhibition "Surrealism, Line And Form -- Anna-Eva Bergman's Formative Years 1949-1952," opened at the Henie Onstad Art Centre. Once again, Tanja performed and a couple of months later she was invited by the art center to record the piece, for the in-house label, Prisma Records. On April 13th, Tanja Orning and sound technician Thomas Hukkelberg came together in the center's Studiohall, to record. The outcome is now documented on this CD release. Tanja Orning is a performer, improviser and composer. After studies in Oslo, London, and Indiana University, she held the position as a co-principal cellist in the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra for 5 years until she left for Oslo in order to realize a number of projects. She is currently playing with groups such as Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, asamisimasa, Dr. Ox and Polygon as well as her solo-project Cellotronics which resulted in a CD in 2005. Orning is currently undertaking research in contemporary performance practice at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Prisma Records is proud to present this entrancing and lyrical composition on a single track CD release, pressed in a limited edition of only 300 copies. Cover design by Lasse Marhaug.

Artist:	MERZBOW
Title:	Live at Henie Onstad Art Centre
Label:	PRISMA (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PRISMA 710CD

Masami Akita aka Merzbow is the biggest name in noise music. Few other artists enjoy the kind of respect within their fields as Merzbow does within the noise scene. If talking about noise music there is simply no way getting around Merzbow. Since 1979 Akita has worked relentlessly, producing hundreds of records. He also has a long list of collaborators: Richard Pinhas, Sunn 0))), Autechre, Pan Sonic, Jim O'Rourke, Boris, Gore Beyond Necropsy, Smegma and many others. Merzbow performed at the Henie Onstad Art Centre on October 11th, 2009. This performance was for the exhibition "Kurt Schwitters in Norway." Since Akita has sited Kurt Schwitters as one of his main influences for his music, and took his name from Schwitters' Merzbau sculpture, it was a natural choice to have Merzbow perform at the center on the opening weekend of the exhibition. The complete 40-minute performance is presented on the Live At Henie Onstad Art Centre CD. Musically, this is classic Merzbow; hypnotic loops, layers of white noise and massive sweeps of sonic overload. Akita performed using two computers, synthesizer, custom-made metal objects and a host of effect pedals. The CD is mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug and the inner sleeve features a unique photo of Masami Akita inside Schwitters' Merzbau. Merzbow in Merzbau. Limited edition of 500 copies.

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