07:00 PM : Can You Hear It @ The Portland Bus Mall

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CHAMBER MUSIC CHALLENGING ARCHITECTURE

The chamber orchestra music population orchestra (mpo:oslo) invites the public to the launch of the international project Can You Hear It with an outdoors concert series in four city rooms in Oslo from July 11th to August 2nd. The audience will be given the opportunity to experience the architecture in the four city rooms, colored by the chamber music.

Locations and times

OSLO
Wednesday, July 11th, 7pm – Ibsenkvartalet
Saturday, July 21st, 2pm – Vaterlandsparken
Sunday, July 29th, 4pm – Tullinløkka
Thursday, August 2nd, 7pm – Fridtjof Nansens Plass

PORTLAND

Thursday, August 2nd, 7pm - The Portland Bus Mall

The concerts are free and open to the public.

Interdisciplinary, international collaboration
By challenging the passive relationship many have to chamber music and architecture, Can You Hear It creates a dialog between music and architecture to involve and engage the audience, as well as academic and professional communities. The project is a collaborative effort between the music population project (mpp), Sister City – the underground bridge building project between Portland, Oregon and Oslo, and architectural communities in both Portland and Oslo. Partners also include the National Museum of Norway, Oslo Architect Association, the City of Oslo and the City of Portland. The concerts will be take place in parallel in Portland and Oslo with a total of eight concerts in eight city rooms.

Back to the people
mpp was founded in Portland, Oregon in 2005 to bring chamber music back to the people. By rethinking all aspects around the sharing of chamber music, mpp reaches out to the audience on their premises. At the same time, the audience is given an opportunity to discover what chamber music can sound like in 2007, when influenced by contemporary aesthetics, while still carrying on old chamber music traditions. The Music Population Orchestra takes part in mpp’s work and the mpo:oslo premiers on the July 11th concert, expanding to project’s reach to Norway and Europe.

To start out with, the project will be carry on with a documentary film based on the concert series, before the project enters different mediums, such as interdisciplinary dialog in and outside of professional communities, collaborative projects and more concerts.