by Espen Lund | Jan 12, 2022 | News
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...
by Espen Lund | Jan 12, 2022 | News
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...
by Espen Lund | Jan 12, 2022 | News
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...
by Espen Lund | Apr 19, 2021 | News
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...
by Espen Lund | Dec 3, 2020 | News
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...
by Espen Lund | May 27, 2020 | News
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...
by Espen Lund | May 22, 2020 | News
After a visit at one of London Improvisers Orchestras concerts in London in the summer 2019, we invited Steve Beresford and Caroline Kraabel to share some of their wast experience from over 20 years running the LIO. Steve & Caroline joins BIS in one of their...
by Espen Lund | Mar 19, 2019 | Events
Bergen ImproStorband invited musician/composer Anla Courtis (ARG) to work with the band , and together we performed a feedback piece at Bergen Kjøtt back in 2015. In 2019 we had Anla back in Bergen and did another version with different musicians and instrumentation,...
by Espen Lund | Dec 10, 2018 | Events
We are proud to present our first album this night at Bergen Kjøtt, and hope you will come and celebrate this with us!! In collaboration with composers/improvisers Knut Vaage & Per Zanussi we have worked on two very different approaches to improvisation, equally...
by Espen Lund | Feb 3, 2018 | Events
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...
by Espen Lund | Feb 3, 2018 | Events
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...
by Espen Lund | Mar 19, 2017 | Events
BIS will do a series of concerts for children at Barnas Kulturhus in Bergen from March 31st-April 3rd. See this link to read more.
by Espen Lund | Mar 18, 2017 | Events
I samarbeid med Festspillene i Bergen sørget Bergen Impro Storband for musikalsk motivasjon for deltagerne på 7-fjellsturen søndag 28. mai. http://www.fib.no/no/Program/?TLp=1206352 BIS giving the soundtrack to the yearly 7 mountain trip in Bergen 28 may 2017 In...
by Espen Lund | Oct 3, 2016 | Events
To improvise together with a church organ gives a lot of possibilities, also given the acoustic space of the church. From the soft pianissimo small sounds to big soundscapes riding on the rooms resonance. The main idea for this project was to explore all these...
by Espen Lund | Nov 9, 2014 | Events
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...
by Leiv | Sep 12, 2013 | Events
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...
by Espen Lund | Dec 1, 2012 | Events
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...
by Espen Lund | Sep 29, 2012 | Events
PANNEKAKER: A concert tour thru 7 diffent rooms in Bergen Saturday 1. september 10:00-23:00 Places: 10:00 Bergen Offentlig Bibliotek12:00 Konsertpaleet KP 914:00 Bredsgården, Bryggen16:00 Studentsenteret18:00 Musikkpaviljongen20:00 Bergen Kjøtt22:00 Kosmo In this...