CnRd328
The Touchables (Guro Skumsnes Moe & Ole-Henrik Moe )
Artist: The Touchables (Guro Skumsnes Moe & Ole-Henrik Moe
Album title: The Noise Is Rest
Label: ConradSound
Catalog number: CnRd328
Release: 3rd January 2024
Formats and pricing:
- CD digipak from €6
- LP from €12
Shipping:
- From Norway to Norway
- From Slovenia to EU and rest of the world
Press
TO BE SPREAD LIKE VIRAL: To all fellow music-makers: Play the tone E for the environment:
To show that we really do care, play this tone, any octave, any length, but preferably as a long drone,
that could be faded in, to be played strongly, and of considerably length. This tone could start
spontaneously, it could start in the middle of a song, or symphony, or it could be played separately.
Thats up to you. But play it! Make the audience sing along! Show the world that we care!!!! Now!!!!!!!!
This duo-album is our first attempt to explore the musical possibilities in rather extreme registers,
are there interesting things happening when we play so low and high frequencies that we are on the
limits of feeling pitch or tonality? Does these extreme registers have a musical domaine of its own?
Does these “rules of listening” imply other sense-organs than just the ear? Does it make listening
more “subconscious”, more “etiological” ? Perhaps will more primitive, more instinct-based
mechanisms in our nervous system react to this, than to music played more in the “ordinary”
register?
Artist bio
Ole-Henrik Moe:
Norwegian composer and violinist born in 1966. He studied composition and violin in Oslo and Paris and also took classes with Iannis Xenakis. He has composed chamber and orchestra music, performed at concerts and been featured in radio and television broadcasts in Norway and abroad. He has contributed both as composer and performer to a number of “crossover” projects with Norwegian rock band Motorpsycho and electronica pioneers Todd Terje and Andre Bratten among others. Ole-Henrik Moe is a renowned improviser and has participated in theatre productions and modern dance performances. His works have been performed at festivals such as Wien Modern, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Ultima, by ensembles like Arditti, .
Guro Skumsnes Moe:
Norwegian bass player and composer born in 1983. Skumsnes Moe has over the years been one of Norways most productive composers and active musicians crossing the borders of contemporary music, rock, noise and improvisation. Her rock band MoE has toured just about every corner of the world and her acoustic noise ensemble Sult has more than any pushed acoustic textural music to the limits. Skumsnes Moe has scored for the Mexican director Amat Escalantes movie ‘The Untamed”, written music to several plays by the French puppet theater Plexus Polaire, and composed for Norwegian vocal group Oslo 14. The Touchables started as a chamber orchestra to explore the combinations of instruments that Moe and Skumsnes Moe felt deserved more recognition.
Credits
Guro Skumsnes Moe : Octobass
Ole-Henrik Moe : Piccoletto Violin
Recorded by: Dag Erik Johansen
Mixed by: Kyrre Laastad
Mastered by: Lasse Marhaug
Album photography: Henrik Beck/nyMusikk
Album art by: Lasse Marhaug
