Terje Isungset

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Preparations for indoor iceconcert NRK TV 1

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/172523

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Concert for Sub Marine & sounds under water

Terje Isungset composed a piece ogf music out of the sounds from fishes, whales and a choir singing under water (!)
It was performed under Festspillene i Bergen.
Video:

http://www.bt.no/lokalt/bergen/article852309.ece

http://www.ba.no/puls/article4349910.ece

Making ice instruments for Environments Concet


Isungsets music arranged for choir & Lena Willemark



Hakeslepp i Kyrkja:

http://www.hallingdolen.no/kultur/article83462.ece

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ice Concerts in Italy - BBC World News


Terje Isungset and Lena Nymark are performing 10 ice concerts in an Ice Dome 3200 meters above sea level:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7911661.stm

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Ice Concert Volda January 09

Lena Nymark and Terje Isungset (photo Sunnmørsposten)


Monday, January 19, 2009

Hibernation - reviews.

Side 2 - terningkast 6:
Denne gangen har musikken fokus på et samisk uttrykk og sammen med joikeren Sara Marielle Gaup og han selv på isperkusjon, ishorn, isofon og stemme, tar Isungset oss med til steder neppe noen av oss har vært før. På det første av de tolv sporene får de hjelp av Eilif Gundersen på ishorn og Peter Paelinck på isdidgeridoo og med eller uten assistanse, så skaper de stemninger så trolske, varme og spennende som vel tenkelig.
Terje Isungset har maktet å skape et musikalsk univers nok en gang med evnen til å forføre alle med åpne ører og andre åpne sanser.
http://www.side2.no/musikk/anmeldelser/article2509670.ece


GD, Terningkast 5.
Når du hører plata, slutter du å prate, blir stille og begynner å lytte. Det er da du opplever at tonene og lyden ikke bare er dristig, men også gåtefull
http://www.gd.no/kultur/musikk/article4072061.ece


Dagsavisen:
Det hele er monumentalt vakkert på stillferdig og meditativt vis, en musikalsk visjon av det det hele handler om: isformasjoner i transformasjon, gjenklangen i frosne landskap og det varmende og livgivende som eksisterer i samhørighet med det golde og frosne.
Slik er ikke bare platen en inntagende, skjønnhetsspredende og eksperimentell indre reise mot det metaforiske, den blir også en tematisk påminnelse om hvilke krefter som ligger i så vel folket, som omgivelsene rundt dem i et land som har det med å fryse til.
http://www.dagsavisen.no/kultur/musikk/article392737.ece

Bergens Tidende, terningkast 5:
Albumet lokker deg fra første tone inn i et magisk lydlandskap.Dype klangfyllte basstoner ryster høyttalerne, og etterfølges av syngende horn som gir en øyeblikkelig gjenkjennelse av natur, søken og meditasjon.
Lyden isinstrumentene produserer er helt unik, og innehar ironisk nok en fyldig og varm karakter.

Aftenposten,
Der er en egen verden av lyder, det knitrer i krystaller og klinger vakkert i istapper. Selv vinden har sin egen tone.
Stillferdig og neddempet, nesten meditativt beveger lydbildet seg frem i landskapet.
Albumet er spilt inn i en iglo på Geilo i fjor vinter, og det merkelig er at om rammene for musikken er kalde, er det vi hører alt annet enn kjølig. Den har sin egen glød. http://oslopuls.aftenposten.no/incoming/article146910.ece

Romerikets blad; terningkast 5;
Dette er både vakker og skummel stemningsmusikk som krever tid og konsentrasjon, men som betaler tilbake med massevis av detaljer og nyanser – og selvfølgelig en helt unik klang. Det kan virke stillestående ved første ørekast, men er fengende og suggererende når man bare hører etter
http://www.rb.no/lokal_kultur/cd-guiden/article4103339.ece


Stavanger Aftenbland: terningkast 5
Terje Isungset fortsetter å skjære ut nye, spennende rom i sin ismusikk-katedral.
De 12 sporene er åpne som de uendelige finnmarksvidder og mystiske som fortellingene om de gamle sjamanene.

http://www.aftenbladet.no/kultur/plate/979778/Is_is_baby.html

Icemusicfestival Geilo



Icemusicfestival Geilo 2009 was a great success!
(photos by Bjørn Furuseth)


Sara Marielle Gaup and Terje Isungset at the release concert og their new CD "Hibernation".













Sunday, December 14, 2008

Award for children project

Yttrebygda kindergarden and Terje Isungset got the National Kindergarden Award of Norway (Nasjonale barnehageprisen) for their project with music and kids (-:
http://www.barnehage.no/no/Nyheter/2008/November/Her-er-vinnerne-av-barnehageprisen-2008/

Award for Isungset

Terje Isungset receiwed the Edvard Prisen for best composition for his album "Igloo". The price was given by TONO.

The Lyric Theatre London - Reviews.

Terje Isungset is Musical Director for Cinderella in London.
Here are some revews:

TIME OUT MAGAZINE:5 out of 6 stars:
moving, satisfying piece of theatre that will appeal to children and adults alike.' http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/event/119607/cinderella.html
Time Out - Show of the Week

Daily Telegraph:
'One of the finest Christmas shows this festive season.' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3690541/Cinderella-at-Lyric-Hammersmith---review.html
Telegraph
Add a wildly eccentric, surprisingly tuneful one-man band, in which Terje Isungset plays stones, lumps of wood, aircraft parts and a horn made out of ice, and you have one of the finest Christmas shows this festive season is likely to offer.

Evening standard: 4 out of 5 stars
* * * * 'Two beautiful, highly recommended hours.' http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-23584997-details/Cinderella/.do?reviewId=23598870

Evening Standard
The acclaimed director Melly Still returns to the original story by the Brothers Grimm to create a spellbinding show for the whole family to enjoy.
With a top-notch creative team including Norwegian ice-musician, Terje Isungset, the Lyric will be transformed into a spine-tingling winter wonderland to make Cinderella the only show to see this Christmas.


The Times 4 out of 5 stars:
****'An inventive, involving telling of this endlessly rich story' http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article5303695.ece
Times


The Guardian 4 out of 5 stars:
'Inventive magic. It's a seasonal show that utilises the kaleidoscopic delights of theatre.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/dec/08/cinderella-lyric-hammersmith-review
* * * * Guardian
The extraordinary Norwegian composer Terje Isungset is on stage throughout, playing every instrument under the Scandinavian sun from a mouth-harp to a trumpet made of ice.


music OMH,4 out of 5 stars:
http://www.musicomh.com/theatre/lon_lyric-cinderella_1208.htm

The distinctive music for the production is provided by the Norwegian musician Terje Isungset, who sits in a small nest at the top of the stage playing an array of unusual instruments including an old bicycle, a mouth harp which apparently was made from part of a Second World War fighter plane and a trumpet made of ice. His unique percussion is an integral part of the show, driving it along.
The music helps to smooth over some of the cracks.

A curtain up:
With frosty blue lighting and a forest of tall thin birches onstage, a curved staircase of white steps leads to an otherworldly-looking Norwegian orchestra. The instruments, manned by Terje Isungset, include an ice trombone and a mouth harp and make even more outlandish sounds which add to the icily unfamiliar Scandinavian atmosphere

This is London
The setting is the wintry ?far, far north?, a place of frosted landscapes and twisted branches, where Norwegian ice musician Terje Isungset plays intriguing instruments
http://www.scenta.co.uk/music/festivals/cit/1737392/the-iceman-bloweth.htm

The Independent:
Thank heavens for Melly Still's enchantingly beautiful and also seriously bleak Cinderella, which goes back to the Brothers Grimm. The set is a silver-birch wood, with steps spiralling to a lookout where the award-winning musician Terje Isungset perches, with a thrumming Jew's harp and a megaphone made of ice, which sounds like a winter wind and wolves howling.
This is the King Lear of children's theatre.
inspiring theatre, full of imaginative riches and creative play. Recommended.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/twelfth-night-donmar-londonbrsimply-cinderella-curve-leicesterbramazonia-young-vic-londonbrcinderella-lyric-hammersmith-london-1065623.html


Daily Mail 4 out of 5 stars:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1094023/Sensational-seasonal-showtime-From-star-laden-pantos-classics-children-critics-choose-Christmas-crackers.html

One of the show's other striking features is a haunting score with the feel of an aboriginal hoedown, performed by Norwegian musical eccentric Terje Isungset.
He adapts found objects to create customised instruments such as a Jewish harp, didgeridoo, hurdygurdy and - his piece de resistance - an ice trumpet.
All of which epitomise the fully recycled, Soil Association-approved good nature of a DIY ensemble act that amazes more than it offends

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/ice-orchestra-isungset.php

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/audio/2008/dec/03/ice-music-instruments

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/past_programmes.shtml

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

London Jazzfestival

All of Terjes 4 concerts at the London Jazzfestival was sold out, and 2 extra concerts had to be set up. Here is a footage of Terjes iceperformance by the Norwegian News (NRK)

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/150804

Innovasjonsprisen Marmorhallen - Oslo