IMMA presents Camille Norment’s composition Sounds For New Seeds (2023) live for one-night only in the Great Hall at IMMA. Sounds For New Seeds is composed for an instrument and vocal ensemble that includes the rare glass armonica, the Norwegian hardingfele, electric guitar and feedback amongst the brass and string instrumentation. The ensemble forms a ring around the audience, and for this event, the piece will be performed by Crash Ensemble, members from Norment’s own core ensemble from Norway – the Camille Norment Trio – and vocalists from Oslo 14.  

Visual artist, composer, and performer Camille Norment is at home both in the world of exhibitions and music, exploring the spaces of sound and their relation to bodies, thoughts and actions. Norment’s multimedia installations explore socio-cultural and psychological phenomena through what she describes as cultural psychoacoustics, which is about how context, form, space and the viewer’s body interact in the formation of somatic and cognitive experiences.

In Norment’s work, the power of sound and music is a magic force that envelopes the listening body in its transformation of perceptions and possibilities. Sonic agency, and change through thought and action, can be as quiet as the quiver of a single butterfly on a string, or a whisper that becomes the roar of sonic feedback.

Sounds For New Seeds listens to locate and gestures to produce new seeds for the future, scattering them around and setting them to grow.

The piece is not meant as sentimental but rather as impassioned, practical work through sound.

A composition in six parts for instrumentation and choreography, Sounds For New Seeds was originally commissioned by Bergen International Festival 2023.  

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Crash Ensemble members:

Lisa Dowdall, viola

Kate Ellis, cello

Caimin Gilmore, double bass

Susan Doyle, flute

David Collins, trumpet

Colm O'Hara, trombone

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Booking Opens on Wed 25 Sept 2024

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