plaid "Nord Rute" with music by Plaid

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Nord Rute

 

February 6, Satur day

17.00

Pavilion Park by Rica Arctic Hotel

 

Performance

 

Record and sound design: Ross Adams.

Music: Plaid.

Recitation: Synnøve Persen.

Scenography/ light design: Eric Mutel.

Contributors: Klemet Amund Eira, Ánde Somby, Harald Gaski, joiking: Aillos.

Producer: Pikene på Broen.

 

Nord Rute is an Ambisonic narrative that is part folktale, part sonic documentary, part sound montage and part music performance. It is based on the poem No. 272 from the book The Sun, My Father by the renowned Saami poet, painter and musician Nils Aslak Valkeapää. The poem is about a reindeer herd on the move, and Nord Rute focuses around the annual reindeer migration of the Saami herders of Northern Norway. Sound recordings were done by artist and BBC-recorder Ross Adams who embarked on the migration with the reindeer herders from Karasjok to the summer grazing pastures in the Porsanger fjord and captured the age old event using location surround sound recording techniques. The collected sounds were constructed into a sonic narrative by Ross Adams, and augmented by the electronic synthesis of the legendary electronica-duo Plaid. The Saami poet Synnøve Persen participates with her poetic interpretation of the narrative. Who else but Synnøve can render Valkeapää´s message – in the 1970s they were called the Saami King and Queen!?

 

The finished production is Nord Rute, a live outdoor three dimensional sonic performance and evocation of the reindeer migration by Plaid, Ross Adams and Synnøve Persen.

Imagine an enormous labyrinth made of snow and surrounded by many load speakers with the stage in the centre. The performance starts – and you begin to wander the paths of the labyrinth: get immersed in a psycho-acoustic phenomenon and follow the reindeer migration. The sounds surround you 360 degrees, so close that you almost can feel the reindeer skin, the sharp ice breaking…

 

Nord Rute has premiere in Kirkenes and will be performed in London later in February this year. And an album will be released in 2010.

http://www.barentsspektakel.no/eng/articles/6

So this album is a new soundtrack by plaid?

Sounds like it.

They are busy fellas, aren't they?

Seems like that links been up on their site for ages, nice to finally get some proper news about Nord Rute. C'mon, let's have two Plaid albums this year.

  On 2/12/2010 at 1:42 AM, o00o said:

 

So this album is a new soundtrack by plaid?

i suppose it's more like a collaborative piece really, just with plaid doing the 'background music'.. ?

not like their other soundtracks, because they've worked with all those other people on this, who're mentioned above aswell.

i never knew it'd be coming out as an album, though. thanks for posting this!

perhaps they'll film it? and then release a DVD/CD package!!

i reckon Scintilli will be out this summer...... and maybe Nord Rute in winter, late 2010. - sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! :)

  On 2/12/2010 at 5:31 PM, sirch said:

  On 2/12/2010 at 1:42 AM, o00o said:

 

So this album is a new soundtrack by plaid?

 

i suppose it's more like a collaborative piece really, just with plaid doing the 'background music'.. ?

not like their other soundtracks, because they've worked with all those other people on this, who're mentioned above aswell.

 

i never knew it'd be coming out as an album, though. thanks for posting this!

perhaps they'll film it? and then release a DVD/CD package!!

 

i reckon Scintilli will be out this summer...... and maybe Nord Rute in winter, late 2010. - sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! :)

I would love to have a DVD / CD package

I assume Scintilli will also be DVD / CD?! do you know something about it?

  On 2/19/2010 at 2:31 PM, o00o said:

I assume Scintilli will also be DVD / CD?! do you know something about it?

no i know nothing. i'm only speculating via the medium of internet forum chat.

i doubt scintilli will be DVD + CD, tho. my assumption is that it'll just be a stereo album.

but they might be releasing DVD. maybe that's what's taking so long, cos they're mixing in 5.1 ??

i dunno..........................................................

the page has been updated

http://www.barentsspektakel.no/eng/articles/6

looks awesome

Hi,

did anybody here go to this?

sadly for myself i couldn't go. but would love to hear about it from anyone who actually did go?

tanks

haven't been there but I just found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWEikGwez3c

They play Manchester's Futuresonic festival in June, just bought my tickets

For more info:

http://www.futureeverything.org/festival2010/nordrute