John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal
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John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal is a composer and musician currently living in Oslo, Norway. John Andrew's projects engage with material from a wide range of spectrum sources including eastern european folk music, apartment houses in the early united states, childrens songs written by theodor adorno, and the mating calls of codfish. What unites a diverse body of work, is not just a desire to use music to reflect upon the world, but a desire to directly engage with the world through music. John Andrew leads the project torsketromming with scientist Rebekah Oomen. Their work recording, studying, and making music with cod fish is changing how we view the sociality of fish, and how we can help rekindle dwindling cod populations.
John's compositions and arrangements have been performed at series and festivals such as Barents Spektakel, Sacred Realism, METEOR, and the Ultima Festival, was a recipient of a comission from the VOeX program at The Norwegian National Opera, and was a featured artist at Nordic Arts Lab. Recent premiers include the floating performance-installation "Cod Connection" at Only Connect 2022 at the Munch Museum, and Kunngjøringer fra pariserkommunen at the Norwegian National Opera.
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