4. February 2017 Show me how you handle your feedback and I will tell you who you are… John and I had borrowed this multi channel amp for our Nov/Dec stay in Hawaii, for rehearsals and to bring with us to jams. This amp was the biggest, meanest, dirtiest amp I had...
18. January 2017 The Duos Project is me having duo sessions with a series of artists, not just musicians but also sound artists, dancers, visual artists, directors, you name it. Around 2014-15 my work was taking some new directions. I was starting to work more...
5. January 2017 This summer I ran into Tortusa by coincidence, and that was the start of a beautiful friendship. Tortusa/John Derek Bishop (in flowery shirt) as seen from my laptop station during “Lyden av Vann” Tortusa is an ambient musician/composer from Stavanger,...
4. January 2017 Happy new year! There is reason for celebration, since just before Christmas, the Duos Project had its first session in front of an audience, with me and David Rothenberg playing a concert at Bergen Kjøtt on December 17th. This will be the first of...
30. December 2016 We are a duo, my husband John Lilja and I. Some of the first sessions of “The Duos project” I did with John. In this post I will go deeper into the philosophical thoughts around both “The Duos project” and the improv music...
10. December 2016 I would like to dedicate this post to some of my heroes: Music teachers in the outskirts of the world. Examplified by some musicians I know in the Big Island of Hawaii: My sister-in-law, Lisa Lilja Wells, and a more recent aquintance, pianist Wendell...