The former power station of the mine today is the Kraftverk stage; the shows there happened to be yet atmospheric more raving. People gathered around for some dancing and the acoustics is less reverberating than in the Mimer.

Former power station building, namely Kraftverk room., 2015

The guitar-only show at the festival was performed by Kali Malone and Caterina Barberi. They had some time to speak with us after the show.

Kali Malone & Caterina Barbieri (EMS/Fylkingen), Norberg Festival, 2015

“I’m from the U.S and Caterina is from Italy, we have a duo together and we’ve been composing in the last couple of weeks at EMS a piece called “Glory” for two guitars and two spectral Electro-Harmonic freeze pedals. The piece focuses on tonality and canons. The length of the piece was planned for live performance on 40 minutes with 3 parts. We complete each other becoming “one-guitar player”, we play the same melody but in canon, which means we both play the same melody but we start at different parts so interesting harmonies happen and then we freeze the harmonics, it is a very violent harmonic spectrum. We use repetition and polyrhythmic aspects. We don’t add anything else than the 2 guitars and the freeze pedals, no back tracks, all live. At the moment, we work on a studio version for 10 guitars. It is a dialogue and also a monologue since we play the same thing repeating each other. Playing here at Norberg festival is sort of industrial ruin and a almost religious feeling, and the piece is called “Glory”, so we found it quite appropriate to play it here. This place is so massive. Here there is a thirteen-second reverb and we played very clean guitar sounds so there was not too much electronic process, just a very loud amplifier and the rest of echo it came out natural. We both are very active musicians; Caterina is doing her own solo show with modular synthesisers. We plan to tour and make a score for this piece, a contemporary guitar piece.”

Sophia Loizou (Astro:Dynaics), Norberg Festival, 2015

Sophia Loizou played at the Mimer before dawn using some sort of violin bow. She creates atmospheres and passages with processed acoustic instruments and electronics, which once again became boosted by the acoustics of the preserved-decayed architecture. The performance rather than inviting to chill out, turned into a sweet lullaby with people going with their sleeping bags to the 3rd flight of the building, which it became like when Sigourney Weaver discovered the egg plantation in Aliens 2.