Name: LIPSTIKMATA @ TYVEN
Start: 2025-10-14T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-14T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Dronningens Gate 11, 7011 Trondheim, Norway

LIPSTIKMATA
Some say the quicker the thought that runs words through to the tip of the tongue, the sharper and more precise the blade on the knife. These two artists exemplify this speed and precision. LIPSTIKMATA is the encrypted puzzle of what runs through our mind when we hear with our ears though what our eyes do not yet understand.
Live the duo of Victoria Shen aka EVICSHEN & Mette Rasmussen is processing their reed and needle together through space, live acoustics, electronics, sound and matter!
V I C T O R I A S H E N
is a sound artist and experimental instrument maker based in San Francisco. In her confrontational and energetic concerts, various live electronics and acoustic sound sources are used, including modified turntables and a whip!. Victoria Shen (Evicshen) has recorded and performed with The Kronos Quartet, Matmos and Aaron Dilloway, among others. “Watching noise musician Victoria Shen (A.K.A Evicshen) perform is like watching a mad scientist transform into a joyful noisy cyborg-GRAMMY.COM. Shen’s multimedia practice extends beyond musical composition and performance to include installation and non-traditional methods of distribution. Her DIY approach to deconstructing the concepts of “materiality, value and mass production” both integrate and re-contextualize the formats of the readymade and assemblage techniques. For example, the album art for her debut LP, Hair Birth, utilizes copper to transform the cover into a loudspeaker through which the record can be played. In 2021, Shen produced a series of cut-up records in cast resin embedded with found materials, functioning not only as playable music media but as unique art objects. For recent performances, she pioneered the use of Needle Nails, acrylic nails with embedded turntable styluses, which allow her to play up to 5 tracks of a record at once. Needle Nails, Levitating speaker, and her Noise Combs are some of the objects created by her as part of an extensive repertoire of innovations in the design of sound augmentation. These sculptural elements invite the viewer to unpack one’s relationship with the material possibilities for creating sound.
M E T T E R A S M U S S E N
Defining a unique balance of uproar and beauty. Her ability to move between the often strict confines of genres and explore the elements is on full display throughout. In solo affairs as well as in collaborations, she has encapsulated her own personal vision of the role of the saxophone, often turning it into a complete physical experience.Embracing her audience with sonic altitude and prolific melody lines, rocketing a more prosaic stem. Her performances ties together audience and artist, and embodies the energy between the two. Mette Rasmussen is a versatile creature. Hard to categorize, hard to contain in one box, and likely not meant to be framed either. However, she is often seen in free-improvised settings all over the globe and breathes fire and water in a balanced dose. The picture distorts, and she wanders with ease in and out of noise, rock, modern jazz, and blurry genres. Seen on stage with, among many; Zeena Parkins, Joëlle Léandre, Sofia Jernberg, Richard Dawson, Yoshimi P-We, ØKSE, Guro Moe, Trio North, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Weird Of Mouth, Glass Triangle, Fire! Orchestra, The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Han Bennink, Anthony Braxton, Alan Silva, Barry Guy, Keiji Haino.