D4: Designing Sound, Body, Place and Narrative is a cross-disciplinary week (19–23 Oct 2026) at UiA exploring collaboration across sound, movement, narrative, and spatial design. The week consist of seminars, workshops and student group work, before the week culminates in student showcases. This year the students can choose between two tracks “Remixing Classical” and “Audiovisual”. Seminar and workshop holders include Jan Gunnar Hoff, Jørn Eivind Schau, Lars Kristian Lia, Punkt Ensamble, André Bratten, Ole Henrik Moe, Cordula Hacke, Birk Nygård and Ingrid Bjørnaali.
Remixing Classical
Program for students following the remixing classical track.
PROGRAM
Monday, October 19, 2026
09:00 – 10:00: Jan Gunnar Hoff, Workshop (Room TBA)
10:00 – 10:15: Break / downrigg (15 min)
10:15 – 11:45: Jørn Eivind Schau: «Ensemble and Sound Perspectives» (Room TBA) Approaches to working with an ensemble of flutes. General aspects of sound and intonation, precision, and ensemble playing. Open rehearsal on Stig Nordhagen’s *Chronicle 2* for Flute Quintet. Flutists: Eivor Engeset (piccolo), Amelia Lubecka (flute), Julie Hodøl (flute), Susanna Sarukhanyan (flute), Jhenifer Nayara A. Costa (alto flute). Led by Jørn Schau.
11:45 – 12:15: Lunch (30 min)
12:15 – 13:45: Lars Kristian Lia + PUNKT ensemble: «Across Practices» Across practices – an open ensemble workshop that explores the convergence of diverse artistic practices. Track participants are invited to engage with their respective instruments to co-create a shared musical language through improvisation, informed by their unique artistic backgrounds, individual preferences, semantic perspectives, and real-time interaction. The workshop integrates participants and mentors into a unified, dynamic performing ensemble. Led by the Punkt Ensemble and Lars Kristian Lia.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
- 09:15 – 10:15: André Bratten & Ole-Henrik Moe: «Collaboration, Intonation and timbre authoring» (Sal 1) Award-winning electronic artist and producer André Bratten and award-winning composer, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Ole-Henrik Moe draw on their previous collaborations to discuss different approaches to working across electronic and acoustic practices, with particular attention to intonation, timbre and sonic textures.
- 10:15 – 10:30: Break (15 min)
- 10:30 – 13:45: André Bratten & Ole-Henrik Moe · Practical Part (Sal 1 / Studio A / Studio B / Laptop rooms) Following the talk, students work in mixed groups within a defined set of limitations, recording instrumental material and using a limited number of layers to create sonic textures rather than a conventional composition. André and Ole-Henrik circulate between the groups before everyone returns for a work-in-progress listening and plenary discussion.
- 13:45 – 14:00: Break (15 min)
- 14:00 – 15:00: Plenary listening & discussion (Sal 1)
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
- 10:00 – 11:30: Cordula Hacke: «The Active Listener – Listening as the Foundation of Musical Communication» Connecting listening actively to breathing, anticipation, balance, timing, reaction, leadership and communication between musicians, rather than treating listening as a purely theoretical subject.
- 11:30 – 12:15: Lunch (45 min)
- 12:15 – 13:45: Cordula Hacke · Listening, Group Work (Room TBA)
- 13:45 – 14:00: Break (15 min)
- 14:00 – 15:00: Remixing Classical · Track Launch (Group structure is presented. Sal 1)
- 15:00 – 15:15: Break (15 min)
- 15:15 – 17:00: Remixing Classical · Group Work (Rooms TBA)
Thursday, October 22, 2026
- 09:00 – 11:30: Remixing Classical · Preprod – Own Group Schedule
- 11:30 – 12:15: Lunch (45 min)
- 12:15 – 17:00: Remixing Classical · Preprod – Own Group Schedule
Friday, October 23, 2026
- 09:00 – 10:00: Remixing Classical · Setup / Soundcheck (Sal 1)
- 10:00 – 11:30: Remixing Classical · Concert (Sal 1)
- 11:30 – 12:30: Lunch
- 12:15 – 14:00: Showcase Audiovisual track MA
Audiovisual
Program for students following the audiovisual track.
PROGRAM
Monday, October 19, 2026
- 10:00 – 11:30: Audiovisual · Presentation/Input (Birk Nygård · 90 min. MA)
- 11:30 – 12:15: Lunch (45 min)
- 12:15 – 13:45: Audiovisual · Group Work / Production (Student group work after Birk’s workshop. (Rooms at MA)
- 13:45 – 14:00: Break (15 min)
- 14:00 – 15:00: Audiovisual · Group Work / Feedback & Conversations (A round for each group: Questions, challenges and approaches)
- 15:00 – 15:15: Break (15 min)
- 15:15 – 17:00: Audiovisual · Individual/Group Work · Time to work
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
- 10:00 – 11:30: Audiovisual · Presentation/Input (Ingrid Bjørnaali · 90 min.
- 11:30 – 12:15: Lunch (45 min)
- 12:15 – 13:45: Audiovisual · Group Work / Production / Supervision. (Rooms TBA)
- 13:45 – 14:00: Break (15 min)
- 14:15 – 15:00: Audiovisual · Group Work / Feedback & Conversations (A round for each group: Questions, challenges and approaches)
- 15:00 – 15:15: Break (15 min)
- 15:15 – 17:00: Audiovisual · Individual/Group Work
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
- 10:00 – 11:30: Audiovisual · Task Design and Limitation Selection (Students present different tasks they would like to work with. Minimum 3 student pr presentation)
- 11:30 – 12:15: Lunch (45 min)
- 12:15 – 13:45: Audiovisual · Track Launch (Students are distributed across groups and tasks)
- 13:45 – 14:00: Break/Travel (15 min)
- 14:00 – 17:00: Audiovisual · Group Work
Thursday, October 22, 2026
- 09:00 – 11:30: Audiovisual · Preprod – Own Group Schedule
- 11:30 – 12:15: Lunch (45 min)
- 12:15 – 17:00: Audiovisual · Preprod – Own Group Schedule
Friday, October 23, 2026
- 09:00 – 10:00: Audiovisual · Group Work
- 10:00 – 11:30: Remixing Classical · Concert (Sal 1)
- 11:30 – 12:15: Lunch / Travel
- 12:15 – 14:00: Showcase Audiovisual track MA