Workshops
Nuts And Bolts has organised and facilitated workshops by among others Leslie Garcia, Hilde Marie Holsen, Mo’ong, Denise Onen, and Ioana Vreme Moser.
We’ve presented workshops in collaboration with Curating Lab / Ultima Festival, nyMusikk, BEK, EKKO, Østre, and Notam in Norway. In Germany we’ve collaborated with Berlin-based grassroots initiatives AL.Berlin, Black Communion, Soydivision, L-KW, Radical Sounds Latin America, and Morphine Raum.
Workshop by Anja Lauvdal
Workshop by Hilde Marie Holsen
See all pictures of Ioana Vreme Moser’s workshop Sizzling Semiconductors in Bergen on our Instagram page. This workshop was made possible in collaboration between Nuts And Bolts and Bergen based BEK, EKKO, and Østre. Pictures by Thor Brødreskift and Ioana Vreme Moser.
Design by Nina Gibbes
The above workshops were made possible with funding from FFUK (Fond For Utøvende Kunstnere), NKF (Norsk Kulturfond), and Musicboard Berlin.
Tutorials
In Nuts And Bolts' Video-Tutorials, artists give you the full low-down on how a particular slice of music technology works. Hosted on our own Youtube channel, the presenting artists include Rojin Sharafi, Andrei Van Wyk, Mariam Gviniashvili, Dirar Kalash, and Jiska Huizing.
Podcasts
In Nuts And Bolts Podcast, host Jessica Sligter interviews colleagues about how they use and think about gear in their practice. Hosted by online music magazine The Quietus (UK) and on their own platforms, previous guests include Bonnie Jones, Anja Lauvdal, Nadah El Shazly, and Jenny Hval.
Find all Podcast episodes on mixcloud.com/nutsandbolts
Andrei van Wyk interviews Mpumelelo Mcata & Gabisile Motuba
Andrei van Wyk bring us two podcast episodes, complentary to his tutorial series on Precarious Tech and Collective Ownership - the Line6 DL4. Here he talks further with Mpumelelo Mcata and Gabisile Motuba..
Andrei van Wyk is a Johannesburg-based musician and composer who works in the realms of film, sound installation and performance. He is also a MA candidate in history with focus on sound studies at Rhodes University.
https://healeroran.bandcamp.com/
Picture by Tore Sætre
Anja Lauvdal
In the last episode of this season, we talk to pianist Anja Lauvdal about the MS10 versus the MS20, extraterrestrial encounters of the OP1, and music production.
For the past 15 years, Norwegian pianist Anja Lauvdal has put her mark on many collaborative projects, such as Moskus, Broen and Skrap, with her playful and textural playing. The 2022 release ‘From A Story Now Lost,’ marks her first solo album. The album was produced by Berlin-based electronic musician Laurel Halo.
Picture by Agnes Hvizdalek
Aron Dahl
In the third episode of season five of Nuts And Bolts Podcast, we talk to Aron Dahl about the legendary EWI, the Buchla Music Easel, and alternative histories of electronic music.
Aron Dahl is a queer composer, filmmaker and songwriter working with a wide array of sound and image making. His work encompasses ambient electronic music, chamber music, sentimental love songs, field recordings, techno, installation, noise, documentary filmmaking and videographics. He is currently working on his second solo album; A freeform synth-country album about non normative love, BDSM and cruising.
https://www.danielledahl.com/
Priyanka Kodikal
In this episode, Priyanka Kodikal talks with host Jessica Sligter about UX design, impostor syndrome, and max-for-live play.
Priyanka Kodikal is an Indian-Born Berlin-based Creative Lead, a Principal designer at Ableton working on the Max for Live team. By day she helps make patching more understandable for the masses and by night, she’s a sonic explorer who explores various sounds and rhythms through her moniker, Fast Slow. Her sonic creations are influenced by her childhood memories and her fascination for randomness, meditative polyrhythms and nature.
Other
Nuts And Bolts Panel Conversations aim to create a space for discussion and the sharing of experiences, through the exploration and development of discourses around sound and technology.
We’ve also started organising concerts & commissioning compositions from artists from demographics that are underrepresented in music technology.
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Memeshift & Ravenative Live in Oslo
In October 2024, Nuts And Bolts organised a concert by Berlin-based artists Memeshift and Ravenative at Notam in Oslo. Click here to watch their sets!
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Cycling Through The Cords - the Journey with Max/MSP
Max MSP is a popular tool in the Sound Art and Interactive communities and has helped to give artists creative control to imagine and develop their ideas. Join panellists Kristin Norderval, Anastasia Clarke, and Angie Watson, with guest moderator Monica Bolles, as they discuss their journeys into learning Max MSP, their struggles and challenges along the way, and the ways in which they’ve found the tool helps to empower their work.
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de-Westernized sonic practices and technologies
Elsa M’bala / Paola Torres Núñez del Prado / Sarmen Almond
Moderation: Alejandra Cárdenas (Ale Hop)
In recent years, criticisms and awareness about the lack of diversity in the artistic and academic fields have given space to new discourses and perspectives from the Global South that are slowly beginning to enter the experimental and sound art scenes. In this landscape, a significant question arises: how do artists themselves resist othering while addressing issues such as heritage, identity, and hybridity in their artistic practices? […]