Ultima Podcast

Ultima Podcast

Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival

Episodes 26
Avg. Duration 17m
Activity Sporadic
Since Sep 2020
Latest Episode Sep 2025

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Going deeper into the music with the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. The team behind one of the biggest contemporary music festivals in Northern Europe open up the diverse and fascinating world of modern music and experimental sound with innovative sonic portraits with composers and performers. Ultima Festival happens every year in September: see ultima.no for details.

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S2025E4 Listening as an ethical practice with David Harrington

Sep 18, 2025 21m

‘Musicians are trained to listen, and the best of us try to communicate what we hear, both from the world around us and from inside ourselves.’ David Harrington is a violinist and the founding member…

S2025E2 Resisting efficiency, productivity and clear-cut answers

Sep 14, 2025 18m

‘The explanation is actually the process — the courageto stay in movement and not know where you are going.’ In this episode, Rob Young meets Ewa Jacobsson and herlong-term collaborator Hilde Marie…

S2025E2 Liquid Rooms — dismantling the stage, the seat and the single viewpoint

Sep 12, 2025 20m

‘We wanted to forget the stage, forget the constant changes, and give the audience the freedom to choose their own perspective.’ Tom Pauwels is a guitarist and artistic director of the Ictus…

S2025E1 Time, territory and trembling staves with Raven Chacon

Jun 20, 2025 22m

‘I think we're talking about recognizing the things that are bigger than us and the things that are unknowable in in the universe.’ Raven Chacon is an artist, composer and musician born in the Navajo…

BONUS: Fathoming the Arctic seas with Chris Watson & Jana Winderen

Sep 11, 2024 17m

A special micropod audioguide to the opening concert of Ultima 2024. Sound artists Chris Watson and Jana Winderen tell Rob Young about their commissioned piece fathom, a symphony of field recordings…

On the ocean with Pytheas Travels

Sep 10, 2023 22m

Rob Young travels with Maja S.K. Ratkje and Paola Palavidi as they prepare to launch Pytheas Travels, a musical/visual cocktail of surreal maritime experiences connecting ancient exploration with…

S3E7 Inside Einstürzende Neubauten with Chris Bohn

Oct 10, 2022 33m

Rob Young discusses the music and legacy of German band Einstürzende Neubauten with Chris Bohn – Editor in Chief of The Wire magazine. As a music journalist with the New Musical Express in the early…

A hypnotic hum: Missy Mazzoli on 'The Listeners'

Sep 19, 2022 16m

In a live conversation recorded during this year's Ultima Festival, Rob Young meets New York based composer Missy Mazzoli – 'Brooklyn's post-millennial Mozart' – Time Out NY) to hear about the ideas…

S3E5 Freedom is Around the Corner

Sep 12, 2022 15m

Ultima 2022 opens on 15 September. The theme of this year’s festival – Freedom is Around the Corner – comes from an artwork by the late Danish artist/agitator Henning Christiansen. Rob Young explores…

Xenakis's Cassandra complex: Ultima's opening concert

Sep 09, 2022 15m

Ultima 2022 opens on 15 September with a performance of Oresteia by Iannis Xenakis. Rob Young meets bass baritone Seth Carico and percussionists Håkon Stene and Thomas Nilsson during a rehearsal for…

Aspects of Øyunn: A new role for Siv Øyunn Kjenstad

Aug 30, 2022 12m

Rob Young meets Siv Øyunn Kjenstad to hear about preparations for her new Ultima Festival commission, 'Aspects'. Drummer, vocalist, composer, producer, actor – Siv Øyunn is a true omni-musician. For…

S3E2 Flock tactics: Prizewinning composer Jan Martin Smørdal

Jun 23, 2022 15m

Rob Young meets Jan Martin Smørdal, winner of the Arne Nordheim Composer Prize 2022. Jan Martin's music is partly inspired by natural flocking movements and musical memories. He talks about his…

S3E1 Organotopia – Organ-ised chaos with Nils Henrik Asheim

May 13, 2022 12m

Rob Young meets composer, improvisor and organist Nils Henrik Asheim. Nils Henrik talks through his forthcoming Organotopia project, to be performed at Ultima Festival, Oslo, on 17 September 2022.…

S2E4 Beyond time and place with Javid Afsari Rad

Sep 24, 2021 16m

Ultima Context – the podcast that takes you deeper into the world of contemporary and experimental music. Composer and santur player Javid Afsari Rad talks about 'Bigah', his work for the NOWOR…

S2E3 Bathing in sound with Marianne Stranger's Waterwork

Sep 23, 2021 12m

Ultima Context – the podcast that takes you deeper into the world of contemporary and experimental music. At a mountain hotel outside Oslo, artist and composer Marianne Stranger is setting up an…

S2E2 Adventures in Ambient with Carmen Villain

Sep 18, 2021 15m

Ultima Context – the podcast that takes you deeper into the world of contemporary and experimental music. We meet Carmen Villain in her studio in central Oslo to talk about the revival of interest in…

S2E1 Ryoji Ikeda's cymbalism with Jennifer Torrence

Sep 17, 2021 11m

Ultima Context – the podcast that takes you deeper into the world of contemporary and experimental music.  Jennifer Torrence, percussionist with Oslo based group Pinquins, talks about preparing to…

S1E9 Ep 9 2020: Protest and Survive: Agitation and the Avant Garde

Sep 29, 2020 49m

Ultima Context - the podcast that takes you deeper into the world of contemporary and experimental music. Black Lives Matter, corrupt and incompetent governments, environmental disaster and COVID-19…

S1E8 Ep 8 2020: Dilemmas in Contemporary Music Criticism

Sep 29, 2020 1h 4m

Ultima Context - the podcast that takes you deeper into the world of contemporary and experimental music. How can writers and editors make contemporary music accessible and exciting? As a critic of…

S1E7 Ep 7 2020: Don’t Forget to Laugh! New Music Can be Fun

Sep 29, 2020 46m

Ultima Context - the podcast that takes you deeper into the world of contemporary and experimental music. New music is often expected to be serious, difficult and austere, but plenty of younger…

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Ultima Podcast has published 26 episodes since September 2020, covering topics in Music.

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