A very special evening of film and music presented by Ny Musikk and OTO projects together with LUX featuring a collaboration between Norway's greatest noise duo Jazkamer (Lasse Marhaug & John Hegre) and the 16mm film and slide projections of UK film maker (and now Oslo resident) Greg Pope.

JAZKAMER

Jazkamer (altered from the original Jazzkammer to 'get rid of the jazz') kicked off in 1998 as the core duo of underground noise operative Lasse Marhaug and composer/guitarist John Hegre. Across dozens of releases the duo have demonstrated a startling breadth of vision, constantly redfining the possibilities of 'noise'. Both voracious collaborators individually, the Jazkamer beast has also grown additional limbs at various points (C Spencer Yeh, John Wiese, Anders Hana, Jørgen Træen, N.A. Drønen, Iver Sandoy, Jean-Philippe Gross and countless others) and morphed from a duo to the full-on Metal Music Machine big band and back and merged with fellow travellers including Smegma, Merzbow, and Hair Stylistics.

"Marhaug has an impressive range at his fingertips, veering wildly from shock-tactic maximal noise, to near-silent contemplative drones. Much of the time loud and noisy, but also playful and even quiet, wintry and respectful of space and silence" - Ed Pinset, The Sound Projector

Jazkamer website
Lasse Marhaug website



GREG POPE

After dabbling in punk rock bands and absurdist performance, Greg Pope founded Brighton-based Super 8 film collective Situation Cinema in 1986 and afterwards Loophole Cinema (London, 1989). Using 16mm, Super 8 and video, Loophole Cinema were self-styled shadow engineers performing numerous events around Europe. They produced The International Symposium of Shadows in London in 1996.

Working collaboratively and individually, Pope has made video installations, live art pieces and single screen film works since 1996. Recent works include live cinema performance pieces Light Trap and Cipher Screen as well as 35mm film productions Shadow Trap and Shot Film. He currently lives in Norway and is active teaching, projecting, programming and making film.

Greg Pope Website

Cipher Screen performance, NoN festival, Bergen 2011 (no.1) from Greg Pope on Vimeo.

Programme:

1. Light Music (Lis Rhodes) with live remix of soundtrack by Jazkamer
16 mm projection.

2. Lasse Marhaug / Greg Pope: Scoteopgrahic Series
2 x slide projectors.

3. John Hegre / Greg Pope: Cipher Screen
2 x 16 mm projections.





The collaboration between Ny Musikk and OTO Projects has been made possible through support from MIC, Music Information Centre Norway, an organisation promoting Norwegian music nationally and internationally.