Photo by Eirik Lande
SHUFFLE
Premiered at the Ekko festival in Bergen 2010, and also shown at Insomnia festival in Tromsø 2010, and at Tou Scene in Stavanger 2011.
Composition by: Casiokids
Choregrahpy by: Henriette Slorer
Musicians: Ketil Kinden Endresen, Kjetil Bjøreid Aabø, Omar Emanuel Johnsen
Dancers: Henriette Slorer, Sigrid Hirsch Kopperdal
Scenography/light design: Martin Flack
Produced by: Ekko (Bergen)
Co producer: Insomnia (Tromsø) og Tou Scene (Stavanger)
Photo by Eirik Lande
Press release:
After music files and streaming has taken over large amounts of the music marked, the intelligent software that choose the order of the music that you listen to out from what the user prefers and habits has become more advanced. The shuffle function is the real creator of mix tapes, a string of songs put together on the ground of how many plays or brutal rejections registered when the song appears in iTunes, Spotify or other music streaming or players. Visually, musically and with contributions from the audience’s own music players, Casiokids and the dancers explore the possibilities and dangers of randomness in action.
“Shuffle” is a family show, suited for kids from the age of 6 and up.
Review from Nö Music Media
(Illustration by Ole Ivar Rudi)
GOMURSKOGEN
Premiered at the Meteor festival in Bergen 2009, also shown at Kattas festival in Tønsberg 2010 as well as Mini-Øya in Oslo 2010.
Composition by: Casiokids
Puppetry & digital animations by: Digitalteateret
Script: Casiokids & Digitalteateret
Musicians: Ketil Kinden Endresen, Kjetil Bjøreid Aabø, Omar Emanuel Johnsen
Actors: Aslak Helgesen, Ingrid Granum Ellestad, Jean Cena, Helene Ødegaard
Funded by: Norsk Kulturråd
Press release:
Gomurskogen (”The Gomur Forest”) is an adventurous rain forest filled with musical animals who communicate through sounds and songs. They all live in peace, and are protected by the omnipresent Gomurmamma (”The Gomur Mom”). This is about to change as the Gomurs, whose harmony songs brings the rain, are kidnapped by the lizard Togen and the rain forest is thus threatened by ecological disaster.
“Gomurskogen” is a family show, suited for kids of all ages.
Å HØRE GRESSET GRO
Premiered in the centre of Bergen at the 100th anniversary in 2007 of Norwegian classical composer Edvard Grieg.
Composition: Casiokids
Design: Art Academy Bergen
Produced by: Ole Hamre & Unison Bergen
Musicians: Ketil Kinden Endresen, Omar Emanuel Johnsen
The Performance was a homage to Bergen classical composer Edvard Grieg, widely known to be the world first sampler as he incorporated musical references to Norwegian folk music and nature sounds in his works. Sounds from the city ambience buzzing around the statue of Grieg in the centre of Bergen became the raw material for the music. A gigantic grass wall was built up around the statue, sending out sounds collected by Casiokids whilst visitors could hide from traffic noise next to the composer himself.
(Jan Lillebø, bt.no)
JOUEZ EN PLAIN AIR
Premiered at the Sous la Plage festival in Paris 2007, also performed at OiOi festival 2008 in Bergen.
Composition: Casiokids
Design: Casiokids
Musicians: Kjetil Bjøreid Aabø, Ketil Kinden Endresen, Omar Emanuel Johnsen, Einar Moland Olsson, Matias Monsen
Produced by: Sous la Plage festival and Festspillene i Bergen
At the Sous La Plage Festival in Paris 2007 we set up a playground for kids and made music on a musical workstation with speakers put up inside the playground. Small microphones were attached to the different toys, and a trampoline became a bass drum, looping the sound of a jumping ball turned into a funny rhythm, rattling from a helter-skelter became a small melody +++. The idea was that the kids would fool around with the different toys for themselves later to realize that they’ve actually made music whilst playing in the playground.
Footage from Sous la plage (by Sandra Jecmenica)
25 MINUTE WORK DAY
Premiered at the Tyssedal Power Station October 2008.
Composition: Casiokids
Design: Casiokids
Musicians: Kjetil Bjøreid Aabø, Ketil Kinden Endresen, Omar Emanuel Johnsen, Fredrik Øgreid Vogsborg, Matias Monsen
Produced by: BIT Teatergarasjen
In this kids performance we ran through an imaginary work day at Tyssedal power station. Visiting four different stages of a day at the factory, represented by four different instruments in a musical group that culiminated into a improvised jam session, all supervised by the director of the factory, Omar! Note lunch break with carrots that made the melodies for our song.
AURORA BOREALIS
Premiered at Barnas Hus in Bergen December 2008
Composition: Casiokids
Design: Casiokids, Digitalteateret and Barnas Hus
Produced by: Barnas Hus
Musician: Ketil Kinden Endresen
Actors: Jean Cena, Ingrid Granum Ellestad, Helene Ødegaard and Aslak Helgesen
In samii the northern lights are known as Guovssahas, or ‘the hearable light’. Casiokids, Barnas Hus and Digitalteateret designed a setting where children would climb into an indoor igloo made of white fabric, white icicle shaped microphones and subtle blue light in one of the rooms at Barnas Hus in Bergen. Different sound frequencies from childrens play triggered different colours and patterns to fall on the igloo walls.
Suitable for kids 0 – 6.
CONCERT FOR TREES
Premiered at Arvika Festival in Sweden summer of 2009
Composition: Casiokids
Musicians: Fredrik Øgreid Vogsborg, Omar Emanuel Johnsen, Joachim Trana, Ketil Kinden Endresen, Snorre Lyngstad
SOUND WORK-SHOPS IN KINDERGARTENS
Casiokids have done various work-shops in kindergartens in the Bergen area.
Work-shop in Sandsli Kindergarden (music by Casiokids and the kids)
October 27, 2010 at 14:05
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