Øystein Elle

Norwegian version of this page Department of Natural Sciences, Practical-Aesthetic, Social and Religious Studies
Norwegian version of this page Position
Associate Professor
Contact Study place
Halden
Office nr.
C2-027

Academic interests

Performance, post-dramatic theater, composed theater, intercultural art production, avant-garde, inter-dicillinary and poly-stylistic composition, improvisation, baroque music, physical theater, new materialism, art for children, avant-garde and cross-artistic methods in music education in elementary school, extended vocal techniques.

Courses taught

In the Faculty of Teacher Education and Languages: Singing, music didactics, composition, multicultural perspectives, music history, choir, choir conducting.
At the Norwegian Theatre Academy: Singing / voice, improvisation, (cross-disciplinary) composition, music-driven dramaturgy

Background

Øystein Elle b. 1973 holds a PhD in performing arts with cross-disciplinary composition as his special field.

Education

2013 - 2016 Phd "Capto Musicae - Creating sonic and musical theatre in a contemporary artistic context" National program for artistic Research.

2009 - 2010 Pedagogy education at the Rudolf Steiner College, Oslo.

1997 - 1999 Master of Arts in baroque singing at the Utrecht University College of Music in the Netherlands.

1996 - 1997 Post graduate education at the Academy of Music at the University of Agder. (Singing)

1993 - 1996 Bachelor of Arts at the Academy of Music at the University of Agder. (Singing , composition, conducting, piano)

Elle has been affiliated with Østfold University College since 2006. First as a teacher in singing, composition and improvisation at the Norwegian Theatre Academy, then as a research fellow, from 2013-2017. From the fall of 2017 he has been employed as associate professor of music and performing arts, with teaching and research projects related to the Faculty of Teacher Education and Languages, and the Norwegian Theatre Academy. At the Faculty of Teacher Education and Languages Elle teaches singing, choir, composition, choir conducting, subject didactics and multicultural perspectives.

Previous workplaces and guest teacher engagements include: Oslo Academy of the Arts, Norwegian Academy of Music, Bårdarakademiet, The Danish Performing Arts School, The Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, Universidad Finis Terra, in Santiago Chile, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik and the University of Southeastern Norway.

He is in demand in several areas of music and the performing arts field; as a singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, actor and director. He is regularly being presented both with his own productions and in artistic co-productions in a number of countries in Europe, Asia, the United States and South America. The recent years, projects where Elle participates as an initiator, artistic researcher, performer and composer has been touring and presented in Norway, Indonesia, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, England, Slovakia, Japan, US, Nepal and Spain.

Elle has an eclectic background, and artistic approach in her work both as a performer and as a composer and director. He is specialized in "Extended Vocal Techniques" and this multi-faceted concept is also central as a compositional tool in his production. In addition, he is a baroque music-educated counter-tenor (Master of Arts), and his music and stage art aesthetics can be clearly linked to the sources of inspiration; Baroque, Dadaism, European and North American Avant-Garde. Elle's music is often described as polystylistic, and alternates between being atonal, melodious, noise-based, collage-based and improvised. In addition to performing his own and historical works, Elle has premiered a number of compositions written specifically for his voice by composers such as: Jon Øivind Ness, (NO) Henrik Marstrander (NO / FIN) Jyrki Linjaama, (FIN) Knut Avenstroup Haugen, (NO) Svend Christiansen, (DK) Bjørn Sverre Kristensen, (NO).

As a performer and creator of performing arts productions, he focuses on post-modern forms of dramaturgy, and in particular music-driven productions, or "Composed Theater". He has composed the music score for a variety of stage performances, in addition to works for concert use. He is also responsible for a number of theatre productions where he himself is the initiator / producer, composing director / co-director, and most often also performer.

Awards

Selected according to national competition, Øystein Elle's music and performing arts productions are regularly selected to receive funding from the Norwegian Cultural Council, the Composers' Remuneration Fund, the Fund for Performing Artists, the Fund for Sound and Image, the New Music foundation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Positions held

Associate professor in music and performing arts - Østfold University College.

Artistic director of Capto Musicae.

Partners

Collaboration with the University of South-East Norway on a research project related to avant-garde methods and aesthetics in music education in primary school.

"Collaboration with NTNU as editor and autor for the anthology ''Musikkfagets kompleksitet og Bredde" to be published in the MusPed:Research series by Cappelen Dam Akademisk.

Collaboration with the American College in Athens and Patras University on scientific research and artistic development related to Greek ancient masks."

Collaboration with the Kindergarten teacher education at Østfold University College as editor and autor for the anthology "Art meetings and aesthetic processes with the youngest children (0-3 years)"

Publications

  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karsten (2021). Det viktigste er å delta . In Elle, Øystein & Nyhus, Mette Røe (Ed.), Kunstmøter og estetiske prosesser med de yngste barna (0-3 år). Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 978-82-450-3287-1. p. 173–195.
  • Elle, Øystein & Behrens, Electa Woodbridge (2021). YOU and ME -where and how do we meet? Critical Stages/Scènes critiques. ISSN 2409-7411.

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  • Elle, Øystein & Nyhus, Mette Røe (2021). Kunstmøter og estetiske prosesser med de yngste barna (0-3 år). Fagbokforlaget. ISBN 978-82-450-3287-1. 243 p.

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  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Lys I Mørketida .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Deltakelse på Norgesmesterskap for kor .
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karsten (2023). Her lager de rock for babyer . [TV]. TV2 .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid i Lærerutdanning .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Mitt kunstneriske utviklingsarbeid .
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karsten (2023). Rock me Baby Dansenett Norge .
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karsten (2023). Rock me Baby .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Presentasjon av det kunstneriske utviklingsarbeidet Rock me Baby .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Rock me Baby på Showbox-festivalen .
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karsten (2023). Rock me Baby på Marked for Musikk .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Radio.
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Øsa.
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Hi sing Yukapei .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Helten .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Skapunk .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Ambi .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Konsert under korfestival i Drøbak .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Rock me Baby - Prosess - metode -resultat .
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karsten (2023). Rock me Baby på Go Figure Internasjonale figurteaterfestival .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Øystein Elle om Rock me Baby: – Den nysgjerrige skepsisen jeg kjente på før vi startet arbeidet ble raskt snudd til fascinasjon og begeistring.
  • Fredly, Hedda; Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karsten (2023). Babyene oppdrar de voksne . [Journal]. Norsk Shakespeare Tidsskrift .
  • Elle, Øystein (2023). Rock me Baby .
  • Behrens, Electa Woodbridge & Elle, Øystein (2023). Talking the talk and walking the walk: destabilizing the canon in international singing pedagogy.
  • Elle, Øystein & Thorstensen, Jon Sverre (2023). "What's at Stake". Urfremføring av komposisjon for vokal, el-gitar og elektronikk. Seminar for presentasjon av kunstneriske utviklingsarbeider med forskningsgruppa "Forskning på, for og gjennom kunst og estetiske prosesser". .
  • Duch, Michael Francis; Elle, Øystein; Andersen, Dag Erik Knedal; Ruhe, Barnaby & Hoem, Janne (2022). NOMADE.
  • Behrens, Electa Woodbridge & Elle, Øystein (2022). Questioning Quality: Invisible Legacies.
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Coposed Theater .
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Jubileumskonsert Bryn Korforening Sentralen, Oslo .
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). ULTIMA Oslo Contemporary Music Festival - Organotopia .
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). APARTE FESTIVAL FOR EXPERIMENTAL ARTS.
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Urge Displacement, Vadsø .
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Direct action Serve and Protect Episode 1.
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Questioning Quality: Invisible Legacies.
  • Behrens, Electa Woodbridge & Elle, Øystein (2022). Naked Teachers.
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). HEXE Hovedøya .
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Serve and Protect - Episode 1. .
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Witch Club Satan .
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Konsert i St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh .
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Hudriket - et arnested for berørere.
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Direct Action - Intervention .
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Art Night Territorium . Kunstnersamtale med Øystein Elle og Janne Hoem .
  • Elle, Øystein (2022). Territorium, Art Night Haugar .
  • Warem, Øystein Sverre; Thorstensen, Jon Sverre & Elle, Øystein (2022). Tre ulike artikler i prosess fra arbeidet med antologien: "Musikkfagets kompleksitet og bredde - Nye praksiser i et sammensatt samfunn".
  • Elle, Øystein (2021). A commentary text on Extended Composition .
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karsten (2021). StemmeStammen, en scenekunstforestilling av Karstein Solli Produksjoner, for publikumsmålgruppe i alderen 0-3 år, og Readymade Baby, en scenekunstforestilling av Karstein Solli produksjoner, for publikumsmålgruppe i alderen 0-3 år. . In Elle, Øystein & Nyhus, Mette Røe (Ed.), Kunstmøter og estetiske prosesser med de yngste barna (0-3 år). Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 978-82-450-3287-1. p. 235–236.
  • Elle, Øystein & Nyhus, Mette Røe (2021). Forord . In Elle, Øystein & Nyhus, Mette Røe (Ed.), Kunstmøter og estetiske prosesser med de yngste barna (0-3 år). Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 978-82-450-3287-1. p. 5–5.
  • Nyhus, Mette Røe & Elle, Øystein (2021). Kunstmøter og estetiske prosesser med de yngste barna. En introduksjon. In Elle, Øystein & Nyhus, Mette Røe (Ed.), Kunstmøter og estetiske prosesser med de yngste barna (0-3 år). Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 978-82-450-3287-1. p. 13–23.
  • Elle, Øystein (2021). Wheels of voices .
  • Behrens, Electa Woodbridge; Elle, Øystein & Meyer, Ruth Wilhelmine (2021). Quality Carneval .
  • Elle, Øystein (2021). Composed Theatre .
  • Elle, Øystein (2021). Perspectives on the research project Extended Composition .
  • Elle, Øystein (2021). Kunstproduksjoner for de yngste barna og kritikkens medvirkning.
  • Elle, Øystein & Behrens, Electa Woodbridge (2021). YOU and ME as Vocal Material - Performing and Queering Whiteness .
  • Elle, Øystein & Schjølberg, Ann-Helen (2021). The Extended Place - Urge Displacement .
  • Elle, Øystein (2021). Lyden av Viadukten .
  • Løken Valkeapäa, Ida; Åse, Tone & Elle, Øystein (2021). HAÍRESIS - til hvem gir du din sjel?
  • Elle, Øystein (2021). Capto Musicae II.
  • Elle, Øystein (2021). Capto Musicae .
  • Elle, Øystein (2020). Composed Theater. An introduction to Capto Musicaes metodology .
  • Behrens, Electa Woodbridge & Elle, Øystein (2020). YOU AND ME AS VOCAL MATERIAL: Where and How do we Meet III.
  • Elle, Øystein (2020). An Evening of Song - Brech Salon .
  • Elle, Øystein (2020). Killing Songs Writing Time.
  • Elle, Øystein (2020). The word itself has another color .
  • Elle, Øystein & Behrens, Electa Woodbridge (2020). YOU AND ME – AS VOCAL MATERIAL – LISTENING TO THE SPACE BETWEEN II.
  • Elle, Øystein (2020). Urge Displacement .
  • Elle, Øystein (2020). Territorium - Nepal .
  • Runsjø, Pål & Elle, Øystein (2019). 2019-08-01 Prosjektet "Avantgardisme og komprovisasjon.
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). HEXE - Duo.
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). Hva er kunstenerisk utviklingsarbeid .
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). Workshop - Composed Theatre .
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). Workshop - Performance art for young children .
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). HEXE - Innspilling av album.
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). Musikalsk fremføring under Poesioasen på Fossnes, Vestfold.
  • Elle, Øystein; Thorstensen, Jon Sverre; Erichsen, Silje Kathinka & Warem, Øystein Sverre (2019). Konsert på Høgskolen.
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). Material Strategies May workshop.
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). Sti for øyet.
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). The Nights of Yukio .
  • Elle, Øystein & Behrens, Electa Woodbridge (2019). YOU AND ME – AS VOCAL MATERIAL – WHERE AND HOW DO WE MEET? Performance lecture as part of the Material Strategies research presentation.
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). StemmeStammen Spania.
  • Elle, Øystein & Behrens, Electa Woodbridge (2019). YOU AND ME – AS VOCAL MATERIAL -Listening to the space between .
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). Territorium - Bali.
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). StemmeStammen - Brageteatret.
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). The Nights of Yukio .
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). StemmeStammen - Dansens Hus .
  • Elle, Øystein & Behrens, Electa Woodbridge (2019). You and Me as vocal material. Where and How do we meet .
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). HEXE - Konsertant.
  • Elle, Øystein (2019). StemmeStammen.
  • Behrens, Electa Woodbridge; Elle, Øystein; Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla; Graffer, Sidsel; Holm, Ingvild & Oredsson, Jakob [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2019). Material Strategies workshop and sharing.
  • Behrens, Electa Woodbridge & Elle, Øystein (2019). Performance Lecture: YOU AND ME – AS VOCAL MATERIAL – WHERE AND HOW DO WE MEET.
  • Behrens, Electa Woodbridge & Elle, Øystein (2019). YOU AND ME – AS VOCAL MATERIAL – WHERE AND HOW DO WE MEET? Performance lecture as part of the Material Strategies research presentation.
  • Behrens, Electa Woodbridge & Elle, Øystein (2019). Performance lecture: YOU AND ME – AS VOCAL MATERIAL – LISTENING TO THE SPACE BETWEEN.
  • Elle, Øystein; Meyer, Ruth Wilhelmine & Lysne, Jo David Meyer (2018). HEXE -Trio.
  • Elle, Øystein & Schjølberg, Ann-Helen (2018). Tinderdialogene episode 10 .
  • Elle, Øystein (2018). BOPERA.
  • Elle, Øystein; Solli, Karstein & Truzzi, Vitor (2018). Stemmestammen. - En performance-lecture om forprosjektet til Stemmestammen, scenekunst for barn (0-3 år) .
  • Elle, Øystein & Paulin, Anders (2018). "I See that rocky mountain again" .
  • Elle, Øystein & Meyer, Ruth Wilhelmine (2018). HEXE - Konsertant .
  • Elle, Øystein (2018). BOPERA .
  • Meinich, Annelita; Elle, Øystein & Meyer, Ruth Wilhelmine (2018). Kulturreportasjen Kunst : HEXE en teaterkomposisjon for buthodans og strupehode (NRK P2) . [Radio]. NRK.
  • Elle, Øystein (2018). HEXE - Performance-concert .
  • McCall, Brendan & Elle, Øystein (2017). Beyond Ibsen - The Sonic Harvests of Øystein Elle/Capto Musicae . [Internet]. Tidsskriftet Howlround - Theatre Commons .
  • Elle, Øystein & Meyer, Ruth Wilhelmine (2017). HEXE.
  • Tessnes, Ann-Cathrin & Elle, Øystein (2017). Gru, Glam og Glitter (Andre turné 2017).
  • Elle, Øystein; Skjeldal, Marianne; Iden, Beata Kretovicova; Solli, Karstein; Bjørnseth, Jon Halvor & Nilsen-Love, Carl [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2017). BOPERA.
  • Ann Helen, Schjølberg & Elle, Øystein (2017). Tinderdialogene episode 4.
  • Elle, Øystein (2017). Territorium/Njord.
  • Elle, Øystein (2017). Howl.
  • Rikskonsertene ved Tessnes, Ann-Cathrin & Elle, Øystein (2017). Gru Glam og Glitter.
  • Elle, Øystein (2017). The Loner - Klaus Nomi.
  • Elle, Øystein (2016). Stuffed camel - A Theatre Sonata.
  • Elle, Øystein; Husvik-Olaussen, svik-Olaussen & Husvik-Olaussen, Gunhild Mathea (2016). Territorium - A visual Concert performance .
  • Elle, Øystein (2016). Hurra! Vi lever.
  • Elle, Øystein (2016). Sonic Harvast - A Theatre Sonata.
  • Elle, Øystein & Husvik-Olaussen, Gunhild Mathea (2016). Territorium A Visual Concert Performance.
  • Elle, Øystein (2016). Sonic Harvest.
  • Elle, Øystein (2016). A Chance to Sing.
  • Elle, Øystein (2016). Latency.
  • Elle, Øystein (2016). Territorium (Edition for camera).
  • Elle, Øystein & Husvik-Olaussen, Gunhild Mathea (2016). Territorium - En Visuell Konsert-performance.
  • Elle, Øystein (2016). En Barokk Opplevelse -Junior.
  • Elle, Øystein (2016). Capto Musicae Creating Sonic and Musical Theatre in a Contemporary Artistic Context.
  • Elle, Øystein (2015). Text as sound and music - Essay . In Ely Seidman, Karmenlara & Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla (Ed.), Responsive Listening: Theater Training for Contemporary Spaces. Brooklyn Arts Press. ISSN 978-1-936767-36-6. p. 88–98.
  • Elle, Øystein (2015). Text as sound and music II .
  • Elle, Øystein (2015). Tsjernobylfortellinger .
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karstein (2014). Readymade Baby.
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karstein (2014). Readymade Baby.
  • Elle, Øystein (2014). Text as Sound and Music.
  • Elle, Øystein (2014). Capto Musicae - Creating sonic and musical theatre in a contemporary artistic context. A presentation of Øystein Elles´ artistic process, research methods and work.
  • Elle, Øystein (2014). Capto Musicae - Creating sonic and musical theatre in a contemporary artistic context. A presentation of Øystein Elles´ artistic process, research methods and work. .
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karstein (2013). Readymade baby: scenekunst for barn 0-3 år.
  • Elle, Øystein & Øyno, Lars (2013). Revolusjonære budskap.
  • Elle, Øystein (2012). Klaus Nomi - Angel of Suburbia.
  • Elle, Øystein (2012). Skål for det nye Hafslund.
  • Elle, Øystein (2012). Readymade Baby.
  • Elle, Øystein (2011). FOU-virksomhet ved Akademi for scenekunst 2011.
  • Elle, Øystein (2011). Barokk opplevelse, del 3.
  • Elle, Øystein (2011). Barokk opplevelse, del 2.
  • Elle, Øystein (2011). Barokk opplevelse, del 1.
  • Elle, Øystein (2011). Barokk opplevelse, del 1.
  • Elle, Øystein (2011). Readymade Baby.
  • Elle, Øystein (2011). "Klaus Nomi - Angel of Suburbia".
  • Elle, Øystein (2011). Sjelden fugl.
  • Jensen, Maybritt; Solli, Karstein; Skjeldal, Marianne; N. Kaldestad, Gyrid; Elle, Øystein & Kretovicova Iden, Beata [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2011). ”Fra MINI i Bergen til STOR i verden”? [Internet]. www.scenekunst.no.
  • Elle, Øystein (2010). Readymade Baby.
  • Elle, Øystein (2010). Readymade Baby.
  • Elle, Øystein (2010). Ned i mosen med deg menneske.
  • Elle, Øystein (2010). En barokk opplevelse.
  • Elle, Øystein (2010). En barokk opplevelse.
  • Elle, Øystein (2010). FoU.
  • Elle, Øystein (2009). FoU.
  • Elle, Øystein; Gellein, Tone; Berg, Åslaug Krokan; Solli, Karstein & Kjeldsrud, Anne Berit (2009). Training Space.
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karstein (2009). Readymade Baby.
  • Elle, Øystein & Solli, Karstein (2009). Readymade Baby.

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