About ~

JENNY BERGER MYHRE

b. 1991

lives in Oslo, Norway.

Jenny is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound, video and photography. Her work explores and exposes the personal in an honest and curious manner.

Her music is created from field recordings, fragments of melodies, computer generated sequences, modular synths and lo-fi electronics — resulting in soundscapes with references to both the electro-acoustic tradition as well as experimental pop music.

She seeks to remove the expectations of virtuous musical gestures by focusing on the sounds in themselves, and the mental images they produce in us, inspired by listening as a relational act — a way to connect to the world and to other beings.

Jenny's work revolves around personal documentation and archives, intimacy, memory, reality and re-contextualisation. Since the release of her debut album “Lint” in 2017, she has been working with musician and novelist Jenny Hval, contributing to, and touring with the performance “The Practice of Love” throughout 2019. In 2019 she premiered the commissioned piece Notas y Notas y Notas... created for Borealis - en festival for eksperimentell musikk in collaboration with video artist Manuela de Laborde. The piece was developed during a residency in Mexico City and was shown in its early stage at El Nicho festival in 2018, before its world premiere at Borealis in March 2019. In 2020, she premiered her first piece for radio, named Here Is Always Somewhere Else. In 2021 she premiered two public space music compositions: Chidoribashi for Spikersuppa Lydgalleri, and Music for Swimming for Borealis. In 2021 she received the Norwegian Arts Council’s work grant for young artists.

In July 2022 Here is always somewhere else is released on Breton Cassette.

Jenny is also curating F/eks - a concert series for electronic music and experimental pop in Oslo.

Full CV can be found here.

Review of Here Is Always Somewhere Else at Attn:Magazine (UK):

"One familiar presence within Berger Myhre’s music are these little loops of pointillistic chimes (...) which nestle small acts of repetition within a system that never seems to repeat. They encapsulate the contradictions of passing time, with our holistic movement into tomorrow adorned by detours into the past, deja vu and hours vanished to daydreaming or dropped memories."

Interview with Jenny at Attn:Magazine (UK):
«[Lint] is an authentic depiction of life and experience; a mixture of observation, mindful intervention and memories of varying clarity, threaded together to form the continuum of personal experience."

Review of Lint at Variable Character (DE)
"Each of the eight pieces is a tribute to the moment. Jenny Berger Myhre gives them a new context that is so different from the original one - and yet: it feels right, the feeling of intimate openness remains. A wonderful album."

Interview and write-up at Soup Of The Month (IT)
"We were struck by the freshness, the sincerity and the footprints of humanity present in this album."