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Workshops and work for children and young people.

Workshops och föredrag jag erbjuder.
Workshops and lectures I offer.

Concert and lecture for children on a birthday party, Arbetslivscentrum (later Arbetslivsinstitutet, later closed down), ca '90.
Tour for kindergarten children by Norwegian Rikskonsertene '97.
Tours in Norway and Finland as actor, musician and composer with children's theatre group Eventyrteatret '95 - '04.
School concerts at Fylkingen, Stockholm '97.

Lectures and concerts at Kunsthøjskolen på Holbæk Slots Ladegård, Denmark '97 and '99.

Workshop for 8-year old children building experimental musical instruments, composing for and performing on them, with Jon Halvor Bjørnseth (standing) and Harald Skullerud of Drivhuset, Ås Kulturskole, Norway '99.

Two collective instruments and collective music-making.

The Kaleidochord and the Veloncell Marcel were at the Fylkingen exhibition Lydbilleder V or (Sound as Art as Sound) at Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, '99. Here, the Veloncell Marcel is played by a child.

Concert and workshop at a gymnasium in Copenhagen, with Martin Klapper, '00.

A unique compact string- and noise instrument.

The collective construction the Pen (Blyanten).

A novel form of the mbira.

Workshop for 8-15 years old percussion students building experimental musical instruments, composing for and performing on them, with Jon Halvor Bjørnseth and Renate Alsing of Drivhuset, Bærum Kommunale Musikkskole, Norway '00.

Building a string instrument with tin can resonators.

Busy building.

The Kaleidochord, played by children at its second exhibition, the "Rainbow Realm" (a forerunner of the many "Fabulous Sound Machines" exhibits of which I participated in many) in the Liverpool Museum, February - May '00.

Workshop for 8-14 year old children at York City Art Gallery (now York Art Gallery), UK '01.

"Experimental Musical Instrument Making and Creative Sound Research." A two weeks' workshop at K3 (Konst Kultur Kommunikation), Malmö Högskola, Sweden '01. Together with Herman Müntzing.

Two participants explore some sounds of Herman Müntzing's instrument.

Preparing an installation of noise junk for concert and recordings.

At the concert with a unique hybrid string instrument.

Children exploring my tools and instruments together.

I had hands-on workshops about playing and listening for school children at the "Fabulous Sound Machines" exhibition in Croydon Clocktower Gallery, UK, June '02.

Croydon workshop.

The Kaleidochord, played by children at its Croydon exhibit.

A string instrument constructed on a loudspeaker box.

We got some fans that stayed a long time and made many instruments.

A combined wind- string- and friction orchestra.

A visitor trying out the easily made "ear gongs".

A double-sided string instrument with yoghurt resonators.

String- and wind instruments.

Open workshop for children building experimental musical instruments with Jon Halvor Bjørnseth of Drivhuset, Barnas Kulturfestival, Kalvøya, Norway '02.
Tour with our own musical play "Historien om en Salat" (Story about a Salad) for school children in Aust-Agder by Norwegian Rikskonsertene '02, with Jon Halvor Bjørnseth and actor "Tim" Christian Greger Strøm.

Piezo contact mike soldering.

Soldering, detail.

Instrument made of a Pringles tube and a balloon.

Instrument made of a plastic tube and some wire.

Instrument made of a fan with a ball, a chair and some strings.

A version of the nail violin.

Instrument made of a metal frame and some strings.

Instrument made of a telephone, strings etc.

Instrument made of a toilet paper roll and a balloon.

Sound walk in Haparanda.
Bergmark in the center of the world: Haparanda!

Sound walk in Haparanda.

Tour financed by Framtidens Kultur and organized by SEAMS together with Guds Söner to, among others, Sverigefinska Folkhögskolan in Haparanda, where I had a workshop about experimental instrument design, contact mike making and a sound walk '02.

A "string" made of an electrician's tube!

An instrument with a loose string.

Paal Asle Pettersen with a two-string construction.

[Participants trying a contact mike's possibility as a voice amplifier.]

Participant trying a contact mike's possibility as a voice amplifier.

A monochord.

A "fiddle" with a thin resonance box.

Participants making contact mikes.

Workshop at Ny Musikk, Stavanger, NO, about instrument making, contact mike construction and musical concepts, '02.
Workshop for 16-year old school children building experimental musical instruments, composing for and performing on them, in relation to the art project by Kunstnersenteret i Oppland / Oppland Arts Centre, Steder / Places: "Flere Steder for Alltid / More Places for Ever", with Jon Halvor Bjørnseth of Drivhuset at Smedstad Ungdomsskole, Lillehammer, Norway '03.
Improvisation and discussion workshop at ImprovGarage, Oakland, CA, USA, '05.

Concert with Trondheim Improvisasjonsensemble after the workshop. Also Brown Sierra (Pia Gambardella, Paddy Collins) participate (right).
Workshop at Klubb Kanin: Sommer '05 festival, Trondheim, NO, leading Trondheim Improvisasjonsensemble in games, discussions and performance.

The Kaleidochord, played by three children at once in the "Fabulous Sound Machines" exhibition in Carlisle, UK '05.

Some variations of
miniature string- and nail instruments.

The new instruments
are played
along with
the Drivhuset collection of junk.
Designed as ... but they don't sound like ...!

Later on the same tour, the unique
instruments made were heard
together with the electronic sounds
of the electronic workshop.

Individual pieces of the students
were performed along with
collective compositions and improvisations
of me and Jon Halvor
together with the students.
Workshops for school children building experimental musical instruments, composing for and performing on them, in combination with a computer music workshop in Nordtrøndelag, with Jon Halvor Bjørnseth of Drivhuset, no '05.

See larger pictures from the tour in Nordtrøndelag here and here
Workshop concert at Månefisken with Jon Halvor Bjørnseth and students at Sagene Skole, as part of Kraft og Kobling co-organized by Drivhuset, Oslo, '09.
Interactive concert for children with Anders Erkéus at Kulturcentrum, Hallonbergens Centrum, Sundbyberg, '10.
Instrument making and music making with children at Vitsippan daghem in Sundbyberg with Anders Erkéus, '10.
Object- and contact mike workshop with children with Mubil, the Electro-Acoustic Van to Gerlesborgsskolan for Bottna kulturfestival, '10.