asamisimasa is the Norwegian experimental ensemble that was founded in 2001 by musicians who share similar passions and interests in avant-garde music and its history. The ensemble has premiered numerous cross-media works especially written for them, often contextualized with classical repertoire and historical avant-garde work. The ensemble features bass clarinetist Morten Barrikmo, cellist Tanja Orning, guitarist Ander Førisdal, keyboard player Ellen Ugelvik, and Percussionist Håkon Mørch Stene.
Thomas Meadowcroft is an Australian, Berlin-based composer who describes his work as crossing worlds. His music’s surface beauty is ambiguous, even ambivalent. “Its ideas are provocative, but the music can be laugh-out-loud funny. It tells personal stories, but they are distanced — meaning can be made only by the listener. And, at times, we just simply drift, unmoored,
