4–5 November 2025
Excited to welcome guitarist, composer and long-time member of the Wandelweiser collective, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and the great Norwegian double bass player, Michael Francis Duch for a very special two-day residency of performances alongside Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu and SiTron (Trondheim Sinfonietta).
Day One will be an album release show for Pisaro-Liu and Duch's new CD on Confront Recordings - WITHIN (2)/APPEARANCE (2), while day two will be a new collaboration between the pair and SiTron (Trondheim Sinfonietta), focussing on chamber music.
PROGRAMME - Day One:
Michael Pisaro-Liu
within (2) for solo violoncello (1996)
Michael Francis Duch: contrabass
The Tipping Point (2023)
SiTron
Buried in the Snow (2024)
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu (filmmaker, painter) / Michael Pisaro-Liu (composer, guitar)
Performance (Buried in the Snow)
PROGRAMME - Day Two:
Michael Pisaro-Liu
Tombstones (2006-10)
Caminante (2022)
Michael Pisaro-Liu - guitar
Michael Francis Duch – double bass
SiTron (Trondheim Sinfonietta)
Michael Pisaro-Liu (born, Michael Pisaro, 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is a guitarist and composer and a long-time member of the Wandelweiser collective. While, like other members of Wandelweiser, Pisaro-Liu is known for pieces of long duration with periods of silence, in the past fifteen years his work has branched out in many directions, including work with field recording, electronics, improvisation and ensembles of very different kinds of instrumental constitution.
https://www.michaelpisaro-liu.com
Michael Francis Duch is a Norwegian double bass player and professor of double bass, jazz and experimental music at NTNU - Department of Music. He has been involved in more than 80 recordings in various formats and has collaborated with John Tilbury, Pauline Oliveros, Mats Gustafsson, George Lewis, AMM, Christian Wolff, Tony Conrad, Joëlle Léandre amongst others.
https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/michael.duch
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work is grounded in experimental literature, the conceptual avant-garde, and philosophy. Liu's works are concerned with materiality in different contexts and eras, as well as its transformation, symbolism, decay, and emotional resonance. For Liu materiality includes both living and inanimate matter. Through film, poetry, painting, sculpture, and other media, she reflects the light and darkness of the world she lives in. Her films have been shown at international film festivals and museums, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Helsinki Festival, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Image Forum Festival, Japan, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, The Museum of Kyoto, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, M+ Museum in Hong Kong, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, among others.
https://cherlynhsinghsinliu.com
SiTron (Trondheim Sinfonietta) is a chamber ensemble that specializes in contemporary music. The musicians are drawn from Trondheim's professional music community, and the ensemble functions as a creative meeting place for musicians from the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Air Force Band, NTNU and the city’s large freelance community.
https://sitronsinfonietta.com
