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2007 Punkt at Agder Theatre

Thursday 30. August
17:00 Huntsville (N) NOK 180.-
17:50 Live Remix: Sweet Billy Pilgrim (UK) w/guests
18:45 Double concert: Part 1: Joanna MacGregor (UK)/Jan Bang (N) Part 2: Michiyo Yagi (JP)
19:35 Live Remix: Svalastog feat. Alexander Rishaug (N)
20:30 Quercus (June Tabor, Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren
21:10 Live Remix: J. Peter Schwalm (D) feat. Daniel Kluge (D)/Eivind Aarset (N)
22:15 Hans Appelqvist (S)
23:05 Live Remix: Nils Petter Molvær (N)/Ryan Francesconi (US) Afterwards: Punkt Club with DJ Strangefruit at Frk. Larsen

Friday 31. August

17:00 Solveig Slettahjell Slow Motion Quintet (N)
17:50 Live Remix: Scanner (UK)/David Rothenberg (US)
18:45 Trio Mediaeval (N/S)
19:35 Live Remix: Erik Honoré/Nils Christian Moe-Repstad (N)
20:30 Kammerflimmer Kollektief (D)
21:10 Live Remix: Jan Bang / Eivind Aarset / Pål Nyhus (N)
22:15 Sweet Billy Pilgrim (UK)
23:05 Live Remix: Sidsel Endresen /Jan Bang/Erik Honoré (N)
Afterwards: Punkt Club with DJ Strangefruit at Frk. Larsen
Saturday 1. September

16:00 Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra feat. Arve Henriksen / Jan Bang (N): “Crossing Images” for ensemble and improvisors, by Peter Tornquist Conductor: Ingar Bergby
16:50 Live Remix: Bugge Wesseltoft (N)/Michiyo Yagi (JP)
17:45 David Toop (UK)
18:35 Live Remix: Hans Appelqvist (S)
19:15 Charles/Grydeland/Wallumrød/Zach (N)
20:05 Live Remix: David Toop (UK) / Arve Henriksen / Jan Bang / Erik Honoré (N)
21:00 Robin Guthrie (UK)
21:50 Live Remix: Undark (Russell Mills / Tom Smyth / Michael Fearon) (UK) + Eivind Aarset / Jan Bang/Erik Honoré (N)
22:30 Jaki Liebezeit & Burnt Friedman feat. Hayden Chisholm (D)
23:20 Live Remix: Jon Hassell (US) w/guests
Afterwards: Punkt Club with DJ Strangefruit at Frk. Larsen

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Reviews

Quercus Live Remix: J. Peter Schwalm / Daniel Kluge / Eivind Aarset

Entering the Alpha Room, where German sampler/keyboardist/producer J. Peter Schwalm, Punkt mainstay/ guitarist Eivind Aarset and “video guitarist” Daniel Kluge were deconstructing Quercus' set, the immediate impression was of how far from its origins a piece of music could be taken. Bird sounds and other ambient sounds filled the room as Shwalm and Aarset began to develop a textural approach to Tabor's looped voice.

As the music began to coalesce into more defined shape and defined rhythmic pulses emerged, Kluge began to use his instrument to improvise with images recorded at the Quercus show. While it looked like a guitar, it was, in fact, a controller that allowed Kluge manipulation of whatever images were being displayed on a large screen behind the trio, as well as the ability to affect speed and direction of motion, creating staggered visual rhythms that synchronized beautifully with the aural landscape created by Schwalm and Aarset.

Aarset's ability to transform the guitar into a controller of a seemingly infinite multiplicity of textures remains unequalled. His mastery of the array of effects on a table in front of him and at his feet, and his intimate knowledge of how all these devices interact, allows him to fashion new sounds on the fly. The soundscapes he creates are as freely improvisational as those by any guitarist focused on more conventional concepts of melody, rhythm and harmony, although these are also a part of what he does.

Schwalm's ability to grab pieces of the Quercus performance and reprocess them into new shapes while, at the same time, adding his own pulses and sonic ideas, made him an ideal partner for Aarset. Together with Kluge, Schwalm and Aarset delivered what will, no doubt, go down as one of the most successful remixes of Punkt 07.