Tallieu Art Office

Mental Overdrive - Upcoming Gigs

Various Locations
Norway

Mental Overdrive is the moniker Norwegian artist and producer Per Martinsen has released most of his electronic music output under, from early industrial techno through legendary Belgian techno label R&S Records back in 1990, through a variation of dancefloor friendly beats on imprints such as Smalltown Supersound, Discfunction, Full Pupp, Ploink, Music Man and his own Love OD Communications.

27 July 2018 Cafe Hærverk, Oslo (NO)

16 August 2018 Pstereo, Trondheim (NO)

24 - 25 August 2018 RakettNatt, Tromsø (NO)

Exhale

When Art Meets Science - I Love Science Festival
Horta Hall, BOZAR Brussels (B)

During the ‘I Love Science’ festival BOZAR devotes three whole days to an investigation into the links between art and science. 

EXHALE (performance - installation)
A large inflatable is constantly changing shape, struggling with its environment or adapting to it? Visitors can sign up to visit the inside of this gigantic lung and witness some excerpts of the EXHALE- performance.
EXHALE  starts from a movement we all share: breathing. This process of inhaling and exhaling as an expression of our physical and mental states is in constant change and usually unconscious. Yet it can also be a portal to control psychosomatic phenomena like stress and anxiety. Breath connects mind and body, the yogi said a 1000 years ago. However in these eco-calyptic times where fear is the best selling currency, science tell us about earlier mass extinctions and the cycles of life in our earthly atmosphere. With scientific prose, dance and electronic sounds, the audience is invited inside a large inflated lung where performers and visitors become one and the invisible air is shared as a physical and tangible medium. ‘Breathing is the first and the last thing you will do, you will breath about 10000 liters of air today. Without breath, no life.’

Saturday 28 April 2018
14:00 - 21:30 : ongoing performance 
14:30 / 15:30 / 16:30 / 17:30 / 18:30  : 10” performance inside the bubble with dance and text interventions by Liv Hanne Haugen.
19:00 - 21:30 : 20” performance inside the bubble with live music by Per Martinsen/Mental Overdrive.

Sunday 29 April 2018
14:00 - 21:30: ongoing performance 
14:30 / 15:30 / 16:30 / 17:30 / 18:30  : 10” performance inside the bubble with dance and text interventions by Liv Hanne Haugen.

When Art Meets Science

Mental Overdrive featured in 'The Wire'

The Wire
Global Ear - Murmansk

' ... Per Martinsen aka Mental Overdrive is a veteran of the Norwegian dance scene. “Without party we wouldn’t survive,” he declares. A festival highlight, his show is built on glitched, minimal, sparse beats and straightforward dance rhythms, which he breaks down with ambient glaciers. Adjusting the kind of music he makes according to season, he tends not to escape but to explore the theme of weather and polar areas. At an artist’s talk he remarks on the concert of local musician Jasnazima, whose sound seems to him “individual and site-specific”...' 

http://inversiafest.com

The Wire - April 2018 - Issue 410 - download PDF below for the full article.

Mental Overdrive NOMINATED FOR SPELLEMANNPRISEN - BEST ELECTRONIC ALBUM 2017

Spellemannprisen
Norway

Mental Overdrive is nominated for the Norwegian Grammy aka Spellemann for EPILOGUE  as best electronic music album of 2017, together with great artists such as Lindstrom, +Plattform and SASSY 009. 

Mental Overdrive’s live shows are based on hardware equipment only, and varies from harder, beat-based techno shows to more abstract/ambient gigs, all depending on the nature of the event. At the bigger Mental Overdrive shows, live visuals by Tromsø artist Nicolas Horne are part of the setup.

UPCOMING GIGS
26 January - Cementen, Stavanger - Live set
27 January - Vaktbua, Kristiansand - Live set

Mental Overdrive
Video live in-store at Filter Musikk, Oslo

Mental Overdrive LIVE at Spectra Aberdeen's Festival of Light 2018

The Tunnels
Aberdeen, Scotland

Mental Overdrive is the moniker Norwegian artist and producer Per Martinsen has released most of his electronic music output under, from early industrial techno through legendary Belgian techno label R&S Records back in 1990, through a variation of dancefloor friendly beats on imprints such as Smalltown Supersound, Discfunction, Full Pupp, Ploink, Music Man and his own Love OD Communications.

Spectra Aberdeen

New Release: Epilogue by Mental Overdrive

Insomnia Festival
Tromsø (NO)

The new album Epilogue by Mental Overdrive will be released through Prins Thomas’ label Rett i Fletta on 27 October 2017, followed by a string of live shows throughout 2018. 

Club meant electronica with gloomy and mystical sounds between kraut disco and raw techno.

Order/Download here

PUST / EXHALE

Dansens Hus
Oslo (NO)

Dance by Liv Hanne Haugen and electronic sounds, performed live by one of Norways leading and internationally acclaimed electronic musicians Per Martinsen, communicate abstractly and open - sometimes violently and loud, other times soft and quiet, with each other, always in presence of the sound of breathing. Visual artist Lawrence Malstaf is manipulating, pulling and re-shaping the bubble in a dance that also makes the audience move. 
Finally the audience has the chance to monitor their own breath standing side by side on a line while dropping pebbles in a papercup leaving us wondering how many more breaths to go. 

Dansens Hus