Audio & Recordings

asamisimasa and Håkon Stene plays Popular Contexts Volume 7&8 and Avant Muzak by composer Matthew Shlomowitz, released on the brand new London label All That Dust

Awarded the Norwegian Grammy's (Spellemann) 2017 "open category" award

Michael Pisaro's 64-minute work Asleep, Street, Pipes, Tones for electric guitar, bass clarinet, and tape, performed by Kristine Tjøgersen and Håkon Stene.

Asleep, Street, Pipes, Tones is a fascinating, intense and lovingly produced example of what can be made if you come from a completely different direction to the music-making process. It is life-affirming and somehow subtly insinuating. It is a soundscape, if you like, that can perhaps make us all appreciate our basic existence just that little bit more keenly

http://freq.org.uk/reviews/hakon-stene-and-kristine-tjogersen-michael-p…

Oslo Sinfonietta and Håkon Stene perform Steen-Andersen's Black Box Music, a work nominated for the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemann) 2014, and awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize 2014

"Håkon Stene er formidabel på DVD'en, sådan havde man aldrig forestillet sig virtuositet..."
– Per Rask Madsen, Klassisk Magasin

Works by Bryars, Crane, Wallumrød, Stene

Awarded the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemann) 2014 in the category contemporary music.

8/10, Uncut Magazine

"A stunning collection", 4/5.
- DownBeat Magazine

"To me, this is a wonderfully pure distillation of what music can do".
- Richard Williams / The Blue Moment (UK)

"It is cinematic, divine and heartbreaking despite being so straight forward, as is the very quest of this music".
- Tristan Bath, thequietus.com

Works by Lars Petter Hagen, Alvin Lucier, Marko Ciciliani and Michael Pisaro.

"Stene takes sound as malleable material and works it into unexpected shapes, surprising forms and refreshingly imaginative music"
The Wire, Dec/2013

"Clever and unusual, ‘Etude Begone Badum’ is an innovative and intelligent work that explores unusual territory with some impressive effects".

"A feast for the ears, from beginning to end".

Music by Brian Ferneyhough and Sir Duperman

"Simply great when contemporary music is presented in such tough and unorthodox ways".
http://www.skug.at/article7523.htm

Premier recording of The Operation, a concerto for multi-string set-up and ensemble. With Bodø Sinfonietta & conductor Peter Szilvay.

asamisimasa plays Laurence Crane's John White in Berlin, Events, Riis, Old Life Was Rubbish, and Sound of Horse

Awarded the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemann) 2015 in the category contemporary music performance.

asamisimasa plays Neon Forest, Wolf Studies, Willibald Motor Landscape, and Plastic Waves by Øyvind Torvund.

Awarded the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemann) 2012 for contemporary music performance.

Performed by asamisimasa, ensemble mosaik a.o.

Awarded the "Folkelarmsprisen" 2015 for best open category folk music recording. Nominated for the Spellemann folk music award

Benedicte Maurseth – Hardanger fiddle, vocals; Berit Opheim – vocals; Rolf Lislevand – lute, electric guitar, electric bass; Håkon Stene – vibraphone, percussion, electronics, production.

Awarded NOPA's Music Prize 2017.

The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra performs Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme / Strauss: Der Bürger als Edelmann

Performing works by Telemann, Purcell, Biber, as well as traditional Norwegian drum tunes

Awarded the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemann) 2016 for best contemporary music album

Works by Bjørn Fongaard, Brian Ferneyhough, Ole-Henrik Moe, Øyvind Torvund. Nominated for the 2015 Spellemann contemporary music award