DYSTOPIAN DANCING, by Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø

DYSTOPIAN DANCING

by Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø

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	1.	First move 19:37
	2.	Second move 19:37
	3.	(Reduction/teaser) - DYSTOPIAN DANCING 02:28

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“DYSTOPIAN DANCING” is Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø’s third solo release (following “SOLO” from 2011 and “Melting into foreground” from 2015), and his first based on amplified trombone.

In the unadulterated “First move”, Nørstebø is utilizing an air compressor-like use of lungs, nuanced microphone technique and gain adjustments in order to unearth the intense physicality of the inherent low volume sound
material. Trombone mutes and a plastic reed was used while playing, but the material is otherwise untreated.

“Second move” is a mirroring of that very same solo piece, where a varied range of sound sources (all played/activated by Nørstebø) have been arranged to follow the original piece closely while also opening gateways to alternative interpretations seemingly far from the source.

“First move” and chunks of “Second move” were recorded in November 2019 in an old school house turned sound studio in the Norwegian countryside. Certain additional trombone tracks were recorded in Oslo’s intensely reverberant “Emanuel Vigeland mausoleum”, while the rest of the sound sources were recorded progressively as compositional editing and production was done gradually over 2020 and 21.

The accompanying 20 page offset printed booklet contains images taken by Nørstebø during the same period, and can be seen as additional gateways to memory and interpretation, though not in any way intended as a definitive visualization of the music itself.

"A heightened consciousness around a kind of beat based on variations in mouth morphology, pressure, and capacity ties time to the body, ups the stakes, and feedbacks into its violent undertones. A wide rhythmic palette provides much material for its reworking, which adds eerie noir and air raid sirens, glassy sines, and the ubiquitous clicking of an object orchestra, and the rhythmic raspberries blend with bumps that could come from programming as much as the mouth for a kind of breath-based dub techno."
- Keith Prosk, Harmonic series

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released October 1, 2022

Performed, edited, composed and produced by Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø
Trombone, half clarinet, monotron, feedback, objects

“First move” recorded (November 5th and 6th 2019) and mixed by Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard at Flerbruket (Hemnes, Norway)
Mastered by Queer ear mastering (Tara Transitory & Nguyễn Baly) and Daniel Lercher

“Second move” recorded by Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø at Flerbruket, Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum (Oslo, Norway) and Perez (Berlin, Germany) 2020-2021
Mixed and mastered by Daniel Lercher

Photos taken 2020-2021 by Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø,
except front cover by Michael Breyer, and recording session image by Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard

Design by Brodie McAllister
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Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø Berlin, Germany

HMN is a musician and sound artist based in Berlin and Trondheim, focusing on trombone performance and a wide range of compositional and cross disciplinary projects. He chose the brass tubes already at the age of eight, and has done extensive research into both the boisterous side of the instrument, as well as its counterpoint in microscopic sound, utilizing deselection as a central process. ... more

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