Jørgen Holum Karlstrøm: So you wanna make a manifesto??

Ignas Krunglevicius: Yes, we need the statement for our CONCERT at PODIUM  (Hausmannsgate 34), February 28th, Doors open 17.00, CC: 50 kr. Then we start our aggressive expansion! Seen the movie?
 

JHK: ..seen it.

IK: I mean, Heath Ledger completely outshines the whole cast and story, or lack of story should I say , can’t believe he died…who’s gonna play the joker now!

Julian Skar: Chill Maestro! I don’t wanna limit myself with a manifesto, like “this is me and I have a solution to all our problems”. I don’t, and I don’t wanna pretend that I do, we are one of the very few intellectuals in our society that are allowed to just ask questions, and not give the answer- and that’s a beautiful thing – that I want to keep.

Jan Martin Smørdal: [mumbles] I’m not ideological at all..but don’t we do this to develop a language, a discourse for talking about what we are doing, and to use this concert as a practical application for it? But I really have mixed feelings for the word “manifesto”.

IK: Yes to Jan-Martin! But, no no no, you can’t say “manifesto”; if you say manifesto you’re dead.

JHK: Think I agree with Julian, It feels a bit limiting with a manifesto no matter what you call it, press release or whatever..and I don’t wanna pretend either.

IK: Listen, man, you are still gonna do your thing, I’m gonna do my thing, and it’s all gonna be fine. We just need to try to create a… a context for what we are trying to do. To ask some questions, like; why everybody suddenly wants to go interdisciplinary?

JHK: I think we all agree to that Ignas; …and…but..no I can’t say that..

[everybody: come on man!]

JHK: Well…remember at concert X? My god many of those pieces sucked big time, but anyway, I’m probably not excluded from my own critique…it’s all a little bit of this a little bit of that, and it all just blurs out into…. nothing… (with some exceptions, of course).
 

IK: Exactly - that’s what I mean, Kunstmusik today is all over the place, a big sonic soup where all sorts of fashionable composing clichés from IRCAM and Sciarrino/Lachenmann is mixed with Icelandic folk music. I think it is a problem … it’s just boring… (with some exceptions, of course)
 
JHK: yeah, there is a much too limited discussion about these things; yes, we want to have a discourse and theorise about each-others practices, but we don’t want it to be only a music specific thing, that barely a few of the composers are interested in, because in the end, the context in which we make our music, obviously, isn’t music specific …aaa…and…crap, forgot what I was about to say… well..

JMS: Another beer?

JHK: That was it!

JS: Yeah! “I’m the agent of chaos”.

[beer number four is on the table]

JHK: So what do we do…looks a bit like we all are in a sort of state of panic and then we go interdisciplinary..

IK: No panic for me, I know what I’m doing. There was Grieg, then came Trond Reinholdsen and then there is me. I’m post the post!

JHK: I’m past the post.. So we have an plan for all of us. Well there you are, that’s the press release. 

JS: My plan B is to make my plan A work…

IK: Not bad.

JMS: I’ll join that club.

Bartender: Another round?

JHK: You have the list of musicians for the concert, Ignas?

IK: Let me just paste it here!
            
            PROGRAMME:
                    Ignas Krunglevicius – “Knight” (for bass clarinet, cello and video)
                    Julian Skar – “Essay om eksludering” (for typewriter, percussion and electronics)
                    Jørgen Karlstrøm – “Arkitektur i Europa” (for clarinet, electronics and video) 
                    Jan Martin Smørdal -  ”Play me – next episode”. (for percussion, voice and video) 
                    Julian Skar – “Schrieb” (for blackboard, electronics and video) 
                    Ignas Krunglevicius – “Interrogation” (for saxophone, electronics and video) 

                    MUSICIANS:
                    Rolf Erik Nystrøm
                    Kjell Tore Innervik
                    Wendy Greenberg
                    Kristine Tjøgersen
                    Inga Byrkjeland
                    ENSEMBLE neoN

JS: My God! We almost forgot to mention the good people supporting this monumental event!

JMS: Well, here they are:

- Galleri Rekord
- Norsk Kulturråd
- Norsk Komponistforening
- Podium