BIS celebrates 10 years with two-day festival

BIS celebrates 10 years with two-day festival

Bergen Improstorband celebrates 10 years of free improvised music! The two-day festival, which was held at Gyldenpris Kunsthall was a great success, and gave us an opportunity to look back at the ten years gone by and everything we have accomplished. To celebrate we...
BIS and London Improvisers Orchestra @ Iklectik, London,

BIS and London Improvisers Orchestra @ Iklectik, London,

What a great weekend in London with our friends in London Improvisers Orchestra!Rehearsal at the Oto Project Space on Saturday and concert at I K L E C T I K on Sunday. Invigorating for everyone involved! For 23 years the London Improvisers Orchestra has been...
BIS led by Natalie Sandtorv

BIS led by Natalie Sandtorv

BIS invited vocalist and composer Natalie Sandtorv to lead the group at Gyldenpris Kunsthall june 9. 2021.  Sandtorv is establishing herself on the international music scene, she just released her second solo album Heart Echoes on Jazzland recordings. Natalie was...
Arv – Else Olsen Storesund & Solveig Sørheim

Arv – Else Olsen Storesund & Solveig Sørheim

Concert 12. of May at Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Lien 29 Bergen. Starts at 8 pm.  Composers Else Olsen Storesund and Solveig Sørheim has prepared a open-form piece with text and graphic notation for Bergen ImproStorband. After a workshop in January  Else Olsen...
Upcoming projects 2021

Upcoming projects 2021

The fall 2020 has been a roller coaster for us in terms of juggling the different covid 19 restrictions on arrangements. We where lucky to be able to do the project with Per Jørgensen, and we had a nice conducting concert with children at Krapyl in August. But...
Instrument building in collaboration with WRAP. Join us!

Instrument building in collaboration with WRAP. Join us!

Join us for experimental instrument building In collaboration with Plastisk Arena at WRAP we invite anyone interested in building instruments to work with us on this long term project of building an orchestra of self made instruments. Please email us if you are...
Recording in Duper Studio

Recording in Duper Studio

In January 2018 we went into Duper studio to record Ad-lib and Li4, two improvising framework pieces we commissioned from composer Knut Vaage and improviser Per Zanussi. These where pieces initiated already in 2015/16 but we decided to do another round, work more in...
Concert with Mike Cooper

Concert with Mike Cooper

On October 31st 2017 BIS did a concert directet by British improv veteran Mike Cooper at Bergen Kjøtt. With Mike conducting and guiding we played to a series of his own films from around the world. The concert was streamed live on facbook, here is a video from the...
Googol at Røkeriet 2014

Googol at Røkeriet 2014

Googol Concert at Røkeriet april 2014 In this massive project we had over 100 musicians on stage, led by Tim Steiner (UK) Using some of his pre composed material as starting points he led us thru everal group rehearsals preparing the material, but also sign based...
BIS celebrates John Cage: Musicircus at Logen, Bergen

BIS celebrates John Cage: Musicircus at Logen, Bergen

To mark the 100th aniversery for late composer John Cage we filled Logen, the big stage, the stairways, upstairs, with over 100 artists taking part in a version of his Musicircus Happening. The performance lasted for 90 minutes and involved musicians, dancers, visual...
Ruben Sverre Gjertsen microtonal organ project

Ruben Sverre Gjertsen microtonal organ project

Extract from a concert in December 2012 in collaboration with composer Ruben Sverre Gjertsen who had constructed a computerbased microtonal organ in MAX, to experiment with systems of intonation. Together we workshopped some of these intonations together with Ruben...