Recordings
Michael Francis Duch Edges, +3db rec. (2010)
Solo recording of experimental compositions from the fifties and sixties:
Edges (Christian Wolff), December 1952 (Earle Brown), Octet ’61 (Cornelius Cardew), Projection 1 (Morton Feldman) and For Strings (Howard Skempton).
Lemur Aigéan, +3db rec. (2010)
Quartet recording of improvised music by Michael Duch, Lene Grenager, Hild Sofie Tafjord and Bjørnar Habbestad.
John Tilbury/Michael Duch/ Rhodri Davies Cornelius Cardew – Works 1960-70, +3db rec. (2010) Trio recording of compositions by Cornelius Cardew:
Autumn 60, 4th system, Material, Solo with Accompaniment, Treatise and Unintended Piano Music.
en en en Rød & Blå, Øra fonogram, OF010 (2010)
Trio recording of improvised music by Eirik Hegdal, Michael Duch and Tor Haugerud.
Alpaca Ensemble/Eirik Hegdal Elevator, Øra fonogram, OF009 (2010)
Ensemble recording of Eirik Hegdal’s Elevator.
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Kim Myhr Stems and Cages, MNJ rec, MNJCD008 (2010)
Ensemble recording of Kim Myhr’s Stems and Cages
Tony Conrad/C. Spencer Yeh/Michael F. Duch Musculus Trapezius, Picadisc, PICA013 (2010)
Trio recording of improvised music by Tony Conrad, C. Spencer Yeh and Michael Duch.
Concerts
2007
October
Sunday 7th, LEMUR at Parkteateret at the Ultima festival, Oslo
10-13
TRICYCLE
Wednesday 10th, Free Resonance festival, Trondheim
Thursday 11th, Insomnia festival, Tromsø
Friday 12th, Tou, Stavanger
Saturday 13th, Victoriaville, Oslo
November
11-23
LEMUR
Sunday 11th, Hamburg
Monday 12th, Amsterdam
Tuesday 13th, Västerås
Wednesday 14th, Stockholm
Saturday 17th, Ystad
Tuesday 20th, Gothenburg
Wednesday 21st, Oslo,
Thursday 22nd, Hamar
Friday 23rd, Trondheim
Thursday 29th, premiere performance of Taku Sugimoto’s ”November 2007” with Julia Eckhardt and Angharad Davies at the LMC festival, London
Friday 30th, solo at the 2’13 and No Spaghetti festival, Athens
December
Saturday 1st, solo at the 2’13 and No Spaghetti festival, Athens
N-Ensemble
Saturday 15th, Trondheim
2008
January
LEMUR
Tuesday 22nd, Sound of Mu, Oslo
February
Thursday 21st, with Lasse Marhaug at Mir, Oslo
Monday 25th, with Ingar Zach at TSSK, Trondheim
Wednesday 27th, with Tony Conrad and C. Spencer Yeh in Sofienberg kirke, Oslo
March
Sunday 2nd, solo to the shortfilm ”Intervals” by Peter Greenaway at Kosmorama film festival at Nova kino, Trondheim
Saturday 16th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music solo at Sound 323, London
Saturday 29th, with Ketil Gutvik and Christian Münthe at Sound of Mu, Oslo
April
Ingar Zach
Friday 18th, Barcelos
Saturday 19th, Lisbon
Sunday 20, Madrid
May
LEMUR
Thursday 1st, Dokkhuset, Trondheim
Friday 2nd, Speilet/Blå Grotte, Fredrikstad
Saturday 3rd, Landmark, Bergen
Sunday 4th, Sound of Mu, Oslo
June
No concerts
July
Thursday 31st, performing music by Cornelius Cardew with Rhodri Davies and John Tilbury at Olavsfestdagene at Dokkhuset, Trondheim
August
Saturday 30th, with Neil Davidson at Adrianstua, Trondheim
September
Thursday 18th, solo with the short film ”Screen Test – Helmut” by Andy Warhol at Cinemateket at Prinsen kino, Trondheim
Thursday 25th, premiere performance of ”Elevator” by Eirik Hegdal with Alpaca Ensemble and several premieres by Grenager, Torvund, Melhus with Victoria Johnson, Øyvind Storesund and Else Olsen S. at Trondheim Kammermusikkfestival at Dokkhuset, Trondheim
Friday 26th, solo and trio with Tone Åse and Andreas Aase at Researchers Night at Blæst, Trondheim
October
Friday 10th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music solo at the Geiger festival, Gothenburg
Saturday 11th, LEMUR at USF, Bergen
Tuesday 21st, en en en at Blæst, Trondheim
November
LEMUR
Thursday 6th, Berlin
Friday 7th, Brussels
Sunday 9th, Rotterdam
Monday 10th, Hamburg
Friday 14th, Taipei
Tuesday 18th, Xiamen
Thursday 20th, Foshan
Friday 21st, Shenzhen
Saturday 22nd, Macau
Sunday 30th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music solo at Landmark, Bergen
December
Tuesday 16th, N-Ensemble at Alberto Ukebana, Berlin
2009
January
Thursday 15th, Lemur at All Ears festival, Oslo
Friday 16th, with Anita Kaasbøll and Steve Beresford at All Ears festival, Oslo
Saturday 17th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music solo at Moonshake, Umeå
Saturday 31st, performing Christian Wolff’s “Edges” in Vår Frue kirke, Trondheim
February
Monday 23rd, en en en at Blæst, Trondheim
March
Wednesday 25th, Lemur at Griegakademiet at Borealis festival, Bergen
April
Saturday 18th, with Kyrre Laastad at Gråmølna, Trondheim
Saturday 25th, with Ingar Zach and Davis Stackenäs at Galleri Babel, Trondheim
Wednesday 29th, solo and duo with Neil Davidson at Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow
May
Sunday 3rd, Dronerom at Henie Onsdag kunstsenter, Høvikodden
Friday 15th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music solo several places in Trondheim
Thursday 28th, with Diane Torr at Tramway, Glasgow
Friday 29th, solo at Trondheim Jazz festival at Galleri Babel, Trondheim
June
Saturday 27th, Fluxus performance with Guttorm Nordø, Audun Eriksen, Truls Lorentzen at Steinkjer festival, Steinkjer
July
Tuesday 14th, Trondheim Jazzorkester at Molde jazz festival, Molde
August
Saturday 1st, Trondheim jazzorkester at Olavsfestdagene at Vår frue kirke, Trondheim
Sunday 30th, premiere performance of ”Petite Géante” by Stephen O’Malley with Stephen O’Malley, Per Zanussi, Daniel O’Sullivan and Hildur Gudnadottir at Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Høvikodden
Monday 31st, en en en at Credo, Trondheim
September
en en en
Friday 4th, Robot, Bergen
Saturday 5th, Sound of Mu, Oslo
Sunday 6th, TSSK, Trondheim
Saturday 19th, performing ”The Tigers Mind” by Cornelius Cardew with Tigers Mind Ensemble with Truls Lorentzen, Pekka Stokke, Matt Burt, Kyrre Laastad, Arnulf Johansen, Stig Førde Aarskog and Eirik Hegdal during Forskningsdagene at Dokkhuset, Trondheim
Friday 25th, performing music by Charles Mingus with Øyvind Brandtsegg, Eirik Hegdal and Truls Rønning at Researchers Night at Teaterhuset Avant garden, Trondheim
October
Sunday 4th, performing music by Charles Mingus with Øyvind Brandtsegg, Eirik Hegdal and Truls Rønning at Studentersamfundet, Trondheim
Lemur
Thursday 22nd, Nils Aas, Inderøy
Friday 23rd, Dokkhuset, Trondheim
Sunday 25th, Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow
Monday 26th, Glasgow University, Glasgow
Tuesday 27th University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Wednesday 28th, Ryan’s Bar, London
Thursday 29th, St. Philips Church, Salford
November
Sunday 1st, Lemur at Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Høvikodden
Saturday 14th, performing music by Cornelius Cardew with Rhodri Davies and John Tilbury at Free Resonance festival at Dokkhuset, Trondheim
Sunday 22nd, performing music by Cornelius Cardew conducted by John Tilbury and Dave Smith at ICA, London
Saturday 28th, performing ”Horse sings from cloud” by Pauline Oliveros with Pauline Oliveros, Maja Ratkje, Frode Haltli and others at Open Form-festival at Gamle Aker kirke, Oslo
December
Tuesday 8th, duo with Tone Åse at Blæst, Trondheim
Wednesday 16th, performing Fluxus and Scratch music with Trondheim Sinfonietta at Turtrikken, Trondheim
2010
January
Friday 15th, performing music by Cornelius Cardew with John Tilbury at Kammersalen, Trondheim
February
Wednesday 17th, performing Cornelius Cardews ”The Great Learning” and ”Schooltime Compositions” with Svartlamon’ Hardkor and others at Verkstedhallen, Trondheim
March
Friday 12th, performing music by Cornelius Cardew with John Tilbury at Borealis festival, Bergen
Trondheim Jazzorkester
Thursday 11th, Gamle logen, Oslo
Friday 12th, Borealis festival at Logen, Bergen
Saturday 13th, Tou scene, Stavanger
April
Wednesday 7th, ”Pendulum Music” by Steve Reich at Dokkhuset in Trondheim, Norway
Saturday 17th, solo at hulen at Lade, Trondheim
Wednesday 21st, with Kyrre Laastad and Arild Vange at Bella Bulldog, Trondheim
Lemur
Saturday 24th, Bomuldsfabrikken, Arendal
Sunday 25th, performing ”Four6” by John Cage with Tom Hovinbøle at Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Høvikodden
XLemur with Kjetil Møster, Eivind Lønning, Børre Mølstad and John Hegre
Wednesday 28th, Galleri 3,14, Bergen
Thursday 29th, Podium, Oslo
May
Tuesday 4th, en en en and Alpaca Ensemble at Dokkhuset, Trondheim
Friday 20th, performing music by Michael Pisaro with Marianne Lie and Kyrre Laastad several places in Trondheim
Sunday 23rd, Trondheim Jazzorkester at International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Victoriavile
Tuesday 25th, with Gordon Allen, Isaiah Ceccarelli and Xavier Charles at Le Cagibi, Montreal
Wednesday 26th, with Tor Haugerud, Klaus Holm and Xavier Charles at L’envers, Montreal
Friday 28th, with Tor Haugerud and Klaus Holm at Somewhere There, Toronto
June
Saturday 12th, performing Cornelius Cardews ”The Tigers Mind” with Tigers Mind Ensemble at Blæst, Trondheim
July
No concerts
August
Friday 20th, Dog & Sky (Matt Burt, Truls Lorentzen, Vigdis Sjelmo and Eirik Hegdal) and Lemur at Pstereo festival, Trondheim
Saturday 21st, with Kyrre Laastad and Arild Vange at a garden party at Adrianstua, Trondheim
Sunday 22nd, improvising solo to an exhibition of portraits by Anne-Karin Furunes at Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim
Monday 23rd, en en en at Kammersalen in Olavskvartalet, Trondheim
September
Saturday 18th, Lemur, Tilbury/Duch/Davies and solo at Nidarosdomen, Trondheim
Compositions
Cornelius Cardew
Autumn 60 (1960)
4th System (from February Pieces) (1961)
Octet ’61 for Jasper Johns (1961)
Solo with Accompaniment (1964)
Material (1964)
Treatise (1963-67)
Schooltime Compositions (1967)
Sextet - The Tigers Mind (1967)
The Great Learning (paragraph 3 & 6) (1968-70)
Christian Wolff
For 1, 2 or 3 people (1964)
Prose Collection (1967-69)
Pairs (1968)
Edges (1969)
Tilbury 4 (1970)
Burdocks 1970-71)
Out-take (2005)
John Cage
4’33 (1952)
59 1/2 for a string player (1953)
Variations 2 (1961)
Earle Brown
Folio and 4 systems:
November 1952 (“Synergy”) (1952)
December 1952 (1952)
Morton Feldman
Projection 1 (for solo cello) (1950)
Fluxus, Scratch and Text pieces
La Monte Young: Composition 1960 (nr. 7) (1960)
George Brecht: Solo for Violin, Viola, Cello or Contrabass (1962)
Mieko Shiomi: Boundary Music (1963)
Yoko Ono: Overtone piece (1964)
Steve Reich: Pendulum Music (1968)
Howard Skempton: for strings (1969)
Gavin Bryars: Jesus blood never failed me yet (1971)
Pauline Oliveros: Horse Sings From Cloud (1979)
Michael Pisaro: Hinwandeln (zwischen himmel und erd) (2005)
Premieres
Taku Sugimoto: November 29, 2007 (2007)
Bjørn Thomas Melhus: U – the Play (2007)
Øyvind Torvund: Maploop 2 (2008)
Lene Grenager: Moving the Stones (2008)
Eirik Hegdal: Elevator (2008)
Stephen O’Malley: Petite Géante (2009)
Kim Myhr: Stems and Cages (2009)
Talks, seminars and workshops
2007
LEMUR
November
Tuesday 20th,”Practicing Free Improvisation in Ensemble”, seminar at Musikhögskolan in Gothenburg, Sweden
2008
April
LEMUR
Wednesday 30th,”Practicing Free Improvisation in Ensemble”, seminar at Institutt for Musikk, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
August
Neil Davidson
Friday 29th, ”Ethics and Improvisation”, seminar at Institutt for Musikk, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
September
Friday 26th, ”Free Improvisation”, interview at Researchers Night at Blæst in Trondheim, Norway
October
Friday 31st, “Free Improvisation and Experimental Music”, talk at the opening of the exhibition “Seven holes in my head” at The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
2009
February
Thursday 5th, Project presentation at Adrianstua in Trondheim, Norway
March
Lemur
Wednesday 25th,”Practicing Free Improvisation in Ensemble”, seminar at Griegakademiet during the Borealis festival in Bergen, Norway
April
Neil Davidson
Sunday 26th, ”Music of Christian Wolff”, Workshop with Contemporary Music Ensemble at Glasgow University, Scotland
Monday 27th, ”Improvisation in Experimental Music”, talk at Glasgow University, Scotland
September
en en en
Friday 4th, workshop at Griegakademiet in Bergen, Norway
Saturday 19th, ”The Tigers Mind” by Cornelius Cardew, talk during Forskningsdagene at Dokkhuset in Trondheim, Norway
November
Saturday 14th, ”Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra”, talk with John Tilbury at Dokkhuset in Trondheim, Norway
December
Thursday 10th, project presentation at Dokkhuset in Trondheim, Norway
2010
January
Friday 15th, ”Music and Ethics”, seminar with John Tilbury at Institutt for Musikk, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
February
Wednesday 17th, ”The Great Learning” by Cornelius Cardew, talk at Verkstedhallen in Trondheim, Norway
Saturday 20th, project presentation at Dokkhuset in Trondheim, Norway