CreaTeME’s collaboration with PUNKT Festival continued this September with an intensive two-day Live Remix Workshop, taking students from exercises in listening, live sampling and sound shaping into ensemble-based live remixing. The workshop took place in the CreaTeME Lab, a state-of-the-art facility for spatial audio and electronic music practice in Kristiansand.
Photo: Vegar Lippestad
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The two-day workshop was led by Tobias Grønborg (Doglover95) and Ingri Jordahl, with exercises focusing on listening, live sampling, sound shaping and ensemble interaction. Alessandra Bossa contributed a presentation drawing on her practice-based research in live electronics, while Jan Bang, founder of the Live Remix format, was present throughout the workshop, offering context, feedback and guidance as the students developed their performances.
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“We had an exceptionally strong team around the students. Tobias and Ingri led the practical work and brought perspectives from their own active artistic practices, Alessandra brought a research perspective, and Jan was there throughout with an extraordinary depth of experience with the format. So there were several different ways of understanding Live Remix in the room at the same time.
We also experimented with the physical setup. Normally, if a room is packed with fifteen students that wants to learn to live-remix together, they would all have to use and share the same two PA speakers. That can make it surprisingly difficult to understand how your own sound affects the whole. This year each participant had one speaker each at their table ahead of them which created a clearer relationship between action and sound. It also made it easier for everyone to understand who created which sound, which in turn made it easier to play and listen together as an ensemble.
I think that accelerated the learning. What impressed me was how quickly the students became confident not only in making sound, but in not making sound. Live Remix can easily become a format where everybody plays simultaneously and hides inside the total sound. By the end, there was breathing space. It sounded like an ensemble that was actually listening to each other.”
— Andreas Waaler Røshol, project leader
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Following the workshop, a selection of participants moved directly into the PUNKT festival programme. On Thursday they performed a Live Remix together with Ingri Jordahl, followed by another student group performing with Doglover95 on Friday.
The Friday performance was singled out by Jazz i Norge. Reviewer Arild R. Andersen described the students’ remix as “lively” and “wild and well-formulated”, concluding that the evening’s remix performances had done “exceptionally well.”
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Punkt 2026 also received positive international attention, with music journalist Nenad Georgievski describing its Live Remix premise as “brilliantly disruptive.”
“It is fantastic to see a younger generation enter the Live Remix format using their own tools, their unique way of listening and bringing their own ideas to the stage. They are not simply learning the format. They are challenging it and pushing the boundaries for what a Live Remix can be. Hearing what the next generation has to offer gives me great sense of hope and confidence in Punkt and the Live Remix format as a distinct discipline for music making.”
— Jan Bang, professor at UiA and co-founder of the PUNKT festival
Photos: Vegar Lippestad
