CreaTeME International: Live Electronics combines an open seminar and workshop, on stage, rooted in professor and artistic director Jan Bangs (UiA) pioneer work in Live sampling and Improvisation. The project is executed together with artists and students from UiA and the visiting institutions. The project integrates electronic elements with any music genre where the aim is to shape the musicians of the future, while fostering mutual knowledge transfer and exchange between institutions.
Project Leader for CreaTeME International is Associate Professor Ingolv Haaland (UiA). Alongside the seminars and workshops the project is conducting qualitative and quantitative research interviews with both scholars and lecturers at the visiting institutions aiming at further collaborative research and exchange through a  Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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This autumn the CreaTeME International project has visited The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland and ITÜ MIAM: Centre for Advanced Studies in Music in Istanbul, Türkiye. During the stay in Katowice Jan Bang was joined by Eivind Aarset (guitar& laptop), Nils Petter Molvær (trumpet & laptop) as well as four students from the polish academy.
Electronics function as a bridge between genres and between different art forms: the conceptual dimension must be brought forward—the interplay between sound, music, text, and visual expression.
The students present on behalf of UiA was Neringa Bertasiute (vocal & laptop), and Tellef E. Barland (drums). Fabian Klimanek (trumpet & electronics), Mateusz Borgiel (drums & percussion), Filip Botor (double bass) and Filip Dubowski (piano) were the student representatives from The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Students Max Kraft and Jenni Ø. Askvig also participated at a Punkt Remix concert with Jan Bang and Erik Honoré at the Beyoğlu Caz Festival in Istanbul (Türkiye) as representatives for the University of Agder.
CreaTeME International 2026
CreaTeME International’s plan for 2026 is to visit College of Music, Mahidol University in Bangkok (Thailand) and College of the Arts in Singapore. In addition to this, the project will hold a presentation at the Southeast Asian Directors of Music Association (SEADOM) Congress, in connection to the workshop in Singapore. Here they will be joined by Director of CreaTeME Daniel Nordgaard. Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset, Hannah T. Lærum (vocal & laptop) and alumni Even S. Røstad will be joining the CreaTeME International Asian tour.
The project is also in dialog with multiple institutions in Europe for potential 2026 collaborations in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the Nordic countries.
Photo credits: Private // Ingolv Haaland