BIOSPHERE (N)

Thursday Sep. 02 – BIOSPHERE (N) at 01,00

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Biosphere, aka Geir Jenssen, is a renowned Norwegian electronic artist. His album The North Pole by Submarine, issued in 1990, is an acknowledged precursor of what became known as ambient techno.

“I work slowly”, Geir Jenssen said in 1994, when asked about the three-year gap between his first two releases under the name Biosphere. Visions of six-month-long nights in Northern Norway amongst (whatever the thermal equivalent of visions may be) of hibernating temperatures would seem to explain this quasi-confession. As if taking one’s time would be considered dangerously old-fashioned, as if long processes of creation were doomed to turn into artistic suicide. Quite the opposite.

Geir Jenssen finds himself at a complex and fascinating crossroads right now: the heritage of Ambient Techno resting on his shoulders, the masterpiece of ambient music resting on his shoulders – we can feel the proximity of a new quantum leap into unimaginable territories. And if those territories, yet without a name, are not yet inhabitable, Biosphere will map them out for us, and recount his processes of discovery.

His latest commissoned work based on the compositions of Sjotakovitsj and performed by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra was recently a subject of great debate between classically trained composers and the new breed of producers coming through club culture here in Norway.

With this in mind, we invited Geir to perform a set of newly arranged club classics. An exclusive opportunity to hear how Geir went from A to Z and how the influences from the past can be heard in the present.