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Arve Henriksen
:: BIOGRAPHY
Arve Henriksen: trumpet, voice, keyboards and electronics
Born in 1968, Arve Henriksen studied at the Trondheim Conservatory from
1987-1991, and has worked as a freelance musician since 1989.
He has worked with many musicians familiar to ECM listeners, including
Jon Balke (with whose Magnetic North Orchestra he has played extensively),
Anders Jormin, Edward Vesala, Jon Christensen, Marilyn Mazur, Audun Kleive,
Nils Petter Molvær, Misha Alperin, Arkady Shilkloper, Arild Andersen,
Stian Carstensen, Dhafer Youssef, Hope Sanduval, the Cikada String Quartet,
The Source and more. He has played in many different contexts, bands and
projects, ranging from working with koto player Satsuki Odamura, to the
rock band Motorpsycho via numerous free improvising groups with Ernst Reisiger,
Sten Sandell, Peter Friis-Nilsen, Terje Isungset, Marc Ducret ,Karl Seglem
et cetera. Today he is working with Supersilent, Christian Wallumrod Ensemble
and Trygve Seim Ensemble.
He has composed music (commision) to Bale Jazz, Vossa Jazz, "My own
private furry" (dance performance) and to "FRED" (theatre performance).
He was «artist in residence» at Moers Jazzfestival 2006 and
he has been a part of the European Jazz Launch project 2004-2006.
Arve says: "An interest in sound-making was there from the beginning
of my work with the trumpet. I have spent many hours on developing a warm
sound, for instance, but not only that. In my opinion, the trumpet has
vast potential for tone and sound variations that we still have not heard.
At one point, I think it was in 1988, Nils Petter Molvær lent me
a cassette of shakuhachi flute playing. Then things changed."
Arve Henriksen began collecting recordings of Japanese music, with koto,
biwa, shakuhachi and other instruments: "I let the music 'ring' and
develop in my head. I was astonished by the sound of this flute..."
The shakuhachi's roots in the tradition of Zen Buddhism fascinated the
trumpeter, as did its "meditative and minimalistic expressive quality.
"This has made me work with tone and sound making in a new direction.”
But his interest doesn’t stop with this. He has been inspired by
all sorts of folk music, also the Norwegian. He is now interested to work
with more contemporary and composed music. He has also spent time on electronics
and different treatments on the trumpet. And during the last years has
also been focusing on his singing.
http://www.arvehenriksen.no/
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