Anne hilde neset biography of michael

Anne Hilde Neset is a critic and curator based in Oslo, Norway. She is a regular host of BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction programme, showcasing the most cutting edge, international new music. After working as an editor at The Wire music magazine in London, Neset is now the director of Norway’s nyMusikk, which presents a wide range of music and sound art across Europe. Above she has compiled a playlist around the theme of music and architecture which incorporates, among other sounds, folk song, vintage jazz, renaissance choral music, modern composition, electronic beats and the bioelectric sounds of fruit. (Pictured above: Philips Pavilion for the 1958 Brussels World Exposition – see Iannis Xenakis entry below).

Paul Horn
Excerpts from Inside The Great Pyramid and Inside The Taj Mahal
(recorded 1969)

Paul Horn was an American jazz flautist who worked with a number of musicians like Nat King Cole, and Tony Bennet. He was also a practitioner of transcendental meditation, making music we now think of as belonging to the ‘New Age’ genre. He made a series of albums inside different buildings of spiritual importance as well as other resonant spaces like Canyon de Chelly and Monument Valley.

A.L. Lloyd
“A Jug Of This”
from English Drinking Songs
(Topic 1998, recorded 1961)

The Eels Foot Inn pub in Suffolk has folk music embedded in its walls. This might not be a musical piece about architecture, it is in fact a drinking song, but The Eels Foot Inn is a hugely important site on the English folk heritage map and it’s where musicologist A.L. Lloyd recorded songs that, and I quote Lloyd himself “tell a bit of a story, songs as sly as a tinker’s wink, as rough as a ploughman’s hand”.

Morton Feldman
“Rothko Chapel”
Performed by California EAR Unit, UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus
(New Albion, composed 1971)

“Polyphony sucks,” the American composer Morton Feldman famously exclaimed. And when Feldman’s friend, abstra

Kunstnernes Hus, the Oslo based artist-run exhibition space and cinema, has announced that its new director will be The Wire contributor and company director Anne Hilde Neset. Anne currently works as artistic director of nyMusikk and she’s also a host of Late Junction on BBC Radio 3. “Kunstnernes Hus has a historic atmosphere and can accommodate a kind of interdisciplinary thinking that is not often found in Oslo,” she says. “It can showcase diverse art forms at the same time, and is an ideal space in which to examine issues from many different angles – exhibitions, film, talks and music. I see it as a place for cultural exploration, exchange of ideas and opinion-forming – as a place that’s not only great fun, but where it feels important to be.”

Kunstnernes Hus held The Wire and nyMusikk's Off The Page literary festival in Norway for three years running before its move to Bergen's Landmark Bergen Kunstall.

Lina Džuverović is a curator and Lecturer at the Department of Art at the University of Reading. Formerly she was Artistic Director at Calvert 22 Foundation (2011-2014) and Director of Electra, a London-based commissioning organisation, which she co-founded in 2003. She is also a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art and Tate, researching Pop Art in the former Yugoslavia. Selected curatorial projects include Monuments Should Not Be Trusted (Nottingham Contemporary, 2016), Sanja Iveković - Unknown Heroine (South London Gallery and Calvert 22, 2013); IRWIN – Time For A New State & NSK Folk Art (Calvert 22, 2012); 27 Senses (Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2010), Favoured Nations, Momentum, 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art (2009), Her Noise (South London Gallery, 2005).

Irene Revell is a curator and writer who has been working across professional and ‘DIY’ registers over the past sixteen years. Her work seeks out new contexts and connections for practices with challenging social and political implications. She is Director of Electra; a member of the Cinenova Working Group; and Visiting Curator on the MA Sound Arts, UAL. Recent collaborative projects include Cinenova series Now Showing (2015-); The Multiversal Score, Wysing Arts Centre (2015); Someone Else Can Clean Up This Mess, Flat Time House (2014). Recent writing includes a forthcoming contribution to Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image (ed. Lucy Reynolds, I.B.Tauris, 2016), Caesura/Accesso (forthcoming), Camera Austria (with Kerstin Schroedinger), NOIT, Psykick Dancehall, and The Wire magazine. She was associate editor of Aftershow: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz (Sternberg, 2014).