Efungelium Tristi - Concert Kirken
15 February 2025
A sound-puppetry concert in collaboration with Damkapellet.
In the dark recesses of earth and loam, intertwining tendrils of thread connect us, feed us, and leach us dry.
What is individualism in the world of fungi?
A fungal deity holds its court of mycelium subjects, that through sound and movement attempt to find connection and freedom.
This visual and auditory performance explores how puppets are brought to life in the hands of classically trained musicians.
In collaboration between these two female/non-binary trans groups within the scene for music and performing arts in Scandinavia, this original work for chamber quintet and massive marionette puppet unfolds into a journey filled with unpredictability and music in motion.
Supported by Music Norway, Norsk Komponist Foreningen, Dansk Komponist Foreningen, and Københavns Kommes Scenekunstudvalg.
Composed by: Marte Røyeng and Sarah Buchner
Costumes/set/puppet by: Nat Johns and Johanne Daucke
Videography: George Chiper-Lillemark
Performance:
Nicole Hogstrand - cello
Josefine Weber Hansen - soprano
Mika Persdotter - viola
Nadia Okrusko - piano
Irene Bianco - drums
Sarah Buchner - live electronics
Petter Asbjørnsen - puppeteer
Nat Johns - puppeteer
Johanne Daucke - puppeteer
Marte Røyeng - puppeteer
Tettsøm - Grorudparken, Oslo, NO
8 September 2024
Oslo's giant forest spirit hosts a nordic Bachannal for followers and passersby.
A Marte Røyeng piece
Composed by Marte Røyeng
Performed by Aurora Pambianchi Øvrelid, Sarah Buchner, Marte Røyeng
Puppet built by Nat Johns
Filmed by Manuel Madsen
Désolé Proletar - Club Primi @ H15 Scene
26 March 2024
Sonar laborers find rest and care in retaliation; communing with the very creatures they once farmed for resources.
Voices and puppetry: Sarah Buchner, Marte Røyeng, and Nat Johns
Composers: Sarah Buchner and Marte Røyeng
Puppet design and scenography: Sarah Buchner, Marte Røyeng, and Nat Johns
Costume design: Nat Johns
Photography and videography: David Sebastians Lopez Restrapo
Work in progress viewing - Concertkirken
11 February 2024
In preparation for their performance, Désolé Proletar, members of Sono Figures present music and puppetry concepts to an audience, in a fully experimental and conceptual space.
This exercise continues to ask the question: what is sound puppetry?
Performance by: Sarah Buchner & Marte Røyeng
Puppet design: Sarah Buchner, Marte Røyeng, and Nat Johns
Kumulus Morpho – Bådteatret/Ubåden (DK)
18-20 April 2023
Two musicians dive headfirst into the world of musical puppet theater. Their self-built puppets transform their shape throughout the piece – from body, to instrument, to apparatus – tied together by non-verbal sound worlds from voices, objects and electronics.
The piece creates a peculiar, poetic, searching world.
What forces shape the identity of the continually re-composed puppets? Does the sound have power over the movements we see, or is it the other way around? Who has power over the bodies and the sounds they make?
Voices and puppetry: Sarah Buchner & Marte Røyeng
Composers: Sarah Buchner & Marte Røyeng
Puppet design & Scenography: Nat Johns, Sarah Buchner & Marte Røyeng
Lighting Designer: Jari Matsi
Sono Figures Society feat. Michaela Turcerová at CPH Jazz 2023 – ILK Sessions
For the ILK summer sessions at Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Sono Figures Society invited improviser and composer Michaela Turcerova for a collaboration of electro-acoustic sounds, objects, small and big figures.
Voices, instruments, puppets, tape & composition: Sarah Buchner, Marte Røyeng & Michaela Turcerová
Special guest appearance: Petter Asbjørnsen
Puppet design: Sarah Buchner, Nat Johns & Marte Røyeng
Photography by: Tomás Gubbins