plays frenchorn , electronics, and various instruments,
She comes from the island Sula on the west-coast of Norway .
She finished her studies in jazz and improvised music at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo 2001. Frenchorn is her main instrument.
She has made music for dance , film, theater, installations/ sculptures, done performances, workshops and site specific concerts.
She has played concerts, toured and worked with musicians and artists in Europe, Amerika , Canada and Asia .
She is released at a.o . Rune Grammofon , Asphodel, ECM, Universal, Moserobie , Jazzland , Important Records, Psychform Records, Gameboy Records, OHM records
Her range as a performer spans from electronic noise to acoustic horn. She plays mostly free improvised music, but is also working as an electronic music composer.
Since 1995 she has been exploring unusual playing techniques to extend the language of the horn and to find the sonic possibilities of this specific instrument. The use of electronics are a natural extension in search of other sounds and in making multilayered music. She also uses other instruments such as metal objects, pan pipe, recorders, mbira , crap/contact microphones etc.
Her music is consisting of acoustic and electronic sound-sources, analogue and digital electronics, processed sounds and concrete sounds.
Solo project:
Tafjord has done several solo concerts the past years an will release her first solo album KAMA at Picadisc ( Lasse Marhaug ) in fall 2007
Her main groups
SPUNK (Tafjord/ Maja Ratkje/ Lene Grenager/Kristin Andersen)www.spunkmusic.com
Agrare (Tafjord/Lotta Melin/Maja Ratkje)
Kvartett Lemur (Tafjord/Lene Grenager/Michael Duch, Bjørnar Habbestad)
Slinger( Tafjord/Lene Grenager/Lisa Dillan)
Fe-mail (Tafjord/Maja Ratkje)www.femailmusic.com
Other important collaborations is metal project TRINACRIA( Fe-mail and Enslaved), Unni Løvlid Ensemble, Crime Time Orchestra, and Norwegian Noise Orchestra.
She also plays/has played with people like:
Wolf Eyes, Campbell Kneale , Matmos , Ikue Mori, Otomo Yoshihide , Fred Frith new perspectives ensemble,Zeena Parkins , Zu , Evan Parker, Gino Robair , Rodrey Davis, Per Henrik Wallin , Pekka Kuusisto , Sten Sandell , Mike Svoboda, Jaap Blunk , Manheim, Håkon Kornstad , Lasse Marhaug , Sten Ove Toft , Paal Nilssen Love, Ingebrigt H.Flaten , Kjetil Møster , Mats Gustavson , POING, SISU, Wibutee , Anders Hana , Morten Johan Olsen, Per Zanussi , Thomas Strønen , Alog , Kim Hiortøy , Scull Defects, Food for Quartet, No Spagetti Edition, Bjørnar Andresen,Trygve Seim Orchestra, Beadybelle , Frode Gjerstad , Ingar Zack, Ivar Grydland,Tonny Kluften , Håvard Wiik , Fredrik Ljungkvist , Magnus Broo,Liselott Norelius , Lindha Kallerdal , Jacob Friis , Amit Zehn , Søren Runolf , Jonas Kullhammer , Johan Berthling , Christian Wallumrød , Petter Wettre , Bugge Wesseltoft , Ståle Storløkken , Stian Carstensen , Jarle Vespestad , Jon Eberson , Bernt Rosengren,Torgim Sollid , Vidar Johansen,Calle Neuman , Jon Klette , Element Extended, Geng , Gisle Johansen, The Margarets , Number7Deli, Andreas Meland , Aslak Hartberg , Morten Joakim Vatn , Andreas Bye, Kåre Nymark , Lars Andreas Haug , Helge Lien, Kathrine Nyheim , Knut Aalefjær , Stein Erik Tafjord, Runar Tafjord, Karl Seglem , Bergmund Skaaslien , Jon halvor Bjørnset , Nils Økland , Fuzzy Logic, Steve Reid, m.fl
Other artists Tahord has collaborated with:
Per Inge Bjørlo (artist NO), Cecilie Løveid (writer, NO), Øyvind Berg (writer, NO), Karl Hansen( artist,NO ), DansDesign ( coreographers,NO ), Odd Johan Fritzøe ( coreographerNO ), Maja Delak ( dancer,Slovenia ), Kathy Hinde (visual artist, England), Setsuko Watanabe ( video,Japan ), Masa Tanaka (video, Japan), Peter Segerstrom ( interface design, USA), Brian O Reilly (video, USA), Kenneth Varpe , (video, NO) Peter Pajhel ( video,NO ), Peter Opsvik (furniture designer NO), Plinio Bachman ( dramaturg , Sveits ), Silje Breivik (actor, NO), Andrine Sæther (actor, NO), Robert Skjærstad (actor,, NO), Snorre Hvamen (actor,, NO), Lisa Lie (writer/ actor,,NO ), Ivar Orvedal (poet, NO), Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen( poet,NO ), Torkild Sandsund (director, NO), Ingrid Fortun (director, NO), Siw Merete Michalsen (director, NO)
She has attended festivals/ consert series like:
Banlieue Bleue (France)Vancouver Jazzfestival (Canada), Huddersfield New Music Festival(England),Victoriaville (Canada), Roma Europa festival, (Italy),Berliner Festspiele/Maerzmusik (Germany), Printemps de septembre a Toulouse (France),No Fun Fest (New York, USA), Venice Art Biennale (Italia), SKIF8 ( St.Petersburg , Russland ), Femmes ( Hasselt,Belgium ), Miro museet i Barcelona (Spain), ICA (London, England), Transart (Italy), Wexner Center of the Arts ( Colombus , USA), Klara ( Brussel,Belgium ), Noise Fest (Seattle, USA), Steiricher Herbst (Austria), Prague Biennale ( Tchec ), Fundation Serralves ( Porto,Portugal ), Fertiliser (London), Avanto (Finland), Bad Bonn Kilbi (Switzerland), GAS ( Sweeden ), Mesto Zensk (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Konfrontationen ( Nickelsdorf ), Music Unlimited (Wels, Østerrike ), Musikprotokoll (Graz), Taktlos (Zürich og Basel), MusikTriennale Köln, Klangwald (Riga), NewMusicNewMedia Festival (Edinburgh, Skottland ), ISME(Canada), New Perspectives( Vesterås,Sverige ), Stockolm New Music ( Sverige ), Gøteborgskalaset ( Sverige ), Kalv ( Sverige ), GAS ( Sverige )
Norwegian festivals: Ultima , Kongsberg Jazzfestival , Nattjazz i Bergen, Maijazz , Trondheim jazzfestival , Olavsfestdagene , Safe as Milk, All Ears, Vossajazz , Coda, Musikk Under Oslo, UNM, Sandvika storbandfestival , ISFiT , Øya festivalen ,
Teaching:
Tafjord is doing project based teaching in improvisation and composing, as well as giving lessons in playing frenchorn . She has worked as a teacher in kindergarden , primary school, high school and with music/art academy students.
DISCOGRAPHY:
-»Northern Stains», Fe.mail , Carlos Giffoni , 2006, Important Records
-« Blixtertoad », fe-mail ,2006 , Asphodel
-«woman take back the noise» Fe- mail , compil ., 2006
-«En aldeles forferdelig sykdom»SPUNK, 2005, Rune Grammofon
-« volouptuous vultures» Fe-mail, 2005, Psychform Records
-«closer» Beadybelle ,2005,Jazzland rec.
-«Call Me», 2004, by RRR ,Fe -mail and friends, RRR records
-« Syklubb fra Hælvete »Fe-Mail ,2004 Important Records
-«Mandelstam» Per Henrik Wallin and his gang,2004,Moserobie
-«All Men Are Pigs» Fe-mail/ lasse Marhaug ,2004 , Gameboy Records
-«Call Me»Fe-mail and friends ,2004 , RRRrecords
-«Nor Noise» DVD/CD, various ,2004 , OHM records/Pastiche Films
-«Dissolution Tapes»various ,2004,zeromoon
-«Tender love is a bitch»Norwegian noise orchestra ,2003,TIBProd
-« cewbeagappic » Beadybelle ,2003,Jazzland rec.
-«Money will ruin everything» various ,2003 , Rune Grammofon
-«Safe as Milk 05», Fe-mail/ Kjetil Møster , 2003 ,Safe as Milk records/ Melektronikk
-«SOUN» ,SPUNK , Fe- mail,various , 20003,Gameboy records
-«The Electric Leak-The North of it»Fe.mail ,various,2003 , the nordic pavillion exhibition
-«Syklubb fra Hælvete» vinyl,Fe-Mail, 2002,Tv5
-«Fjord Focus» 2002, SPUNK ,copilation , released on The Wire
-«Tempo!» 10 cd SPUNK, compilation, Cappelen
-«øverste toppen på en blåmalt flaggstang»SPUNK,2002, Rune Grammofon
-«What kept you» The Margarets ,2002 , Universal/Mercury
-« Avantometric Attachements » fe -mail, various ,2002,Avanto
-«filtered through friends»SPUNK ,2001,Rune Grammofon
-«home» Beadybelle ,2001,Jazzland rec.
-«Alain Delon /Rubber Rubbish» The Margarets ,2001 , Playground Music Scandinavia
-«Different Rivers» Trygve Seim Orchestra, 2000 ECM
-«Det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger» SPUNK,1999, Rune Grammofon
-»Gi meg en grunn til å være kvinne» dokumentarfilm, utstilling, SPUNK, vist på NRK 2002