Solo album 2022
An ambitious project where tap dance is put on record to serve as music.
Tap dance Janne Eraker
Musicians Knut Reiersrud, Ivar Grydeland, Michaela Antalová, Harald Fetveit, Anders Kregnes Hansen, Hans Martin Austestad, Juliana Venter, Roger Arntzen and Vegar Vårdal, David Skinner, and Kristoffer Lislegaard.
The project zooms in on the expression of tap dance, both in sound and movement, music and dance, audio and video. It’s a series of ten episodes, aiming to define specific nuances of the sound and rhythms of tap dance. A team of stellar musicians join Eraker in 9 duets and 1 trio. In each collaboration they will spend some days improvising and composing the music together. Eraker will also focus on how to record the tap dance sound in each specific context. To research a broad spectre of sound possibilities the recordings will be made in various locations like; a big church, a proper recording studio, a basement, a small studio, maybe even on a boat. The biggest task of this project is to use the dance in a way so it produces the sound that's needed for each collaboration. Then this sound needs to come across on a the recording. This is a technical challenge, but it’s just as much about developing tap dance material with specific, musical qualities. Eraker is interested in how human, mechanic, real, drum-like, foley-ish, 3 dimensional, abstract, “tap dance-like”, spacial or close tap dance be conveyed through a recording.
The whole thing will result in 3 media: a vinyl album, a digital album and a documentary video series. The album will contain all the 10 tracks and be presented as a regular music album. It is supposed to give the listener the chance to really hear the tap dance. The video series will show how the sound recording is made, so that one can connect what the music sounds like to how it's danced. The visual, bodily expression of the dance will on the other side also naturally affect how the viewer hears the music.
Supported by Arts Council Norway, Performing Arts Hub Norway, Norsk jazzforum
Musicians Knut Reiersrud, Ivar Grydeland, Michaela Antalová, Harald Fetveit, Anders Kregnes Hansen, Hans Martin Austestad, Juliana Venter, Roger Arntzen and Vegar Vårdal, David Skinner, and Kristoffer Lislegaard.
The project zooms in on the expression of tap dance, both in sound and movement, music and dance, audio and video. It’s a series of ten episodes, aiming to define specific nuances of the sound and rhythms of tap dance. A team of stellar musicians join Eraker in 9 duets and 1 trio. In each collaboration they will spend some days improvising and composing the music together. Eraker will also focus on how to record the tap dance sound in each specific context. To research a broad spectre of sound possibilities the recordings will be made in various locations like; a big church, a proper recording studio, a basement, a small studio, maybe even on a boat. The biggest task of this project is to use the dance in a way so it produces the sound that's needed for each collaboration. Then this sound needs to come across on a the recording. This is a technical challenge, but it’s just as much about developing tap dance material with specific, musical qualities. Eraker is interested in how human, mechanic, real, drum-like, foley-ish, 3 dimensional, abstract, “tap dance-like”, spacial or close tap dance be conveyed through a recording.
The whole thing will result in 3 media: a vinyl album, a digital album and a documentary video series. The album will contain all the 10 tracks and be presented as a regular music album. It is supposed to give the listener the chance to really hear the tap dance. The video series will show how the sound recording is made, so that one can connect what the music sounds like to how it's danced. The visual, bodily expression of the dance will on the other side also naturally affect how the viewer hears the music.
Supported by Arts Council Norway, Performing Arts Hub Norway, Norsk jazzforum
