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Hans Fjellestad is a musician and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He studied music composition and improvisation with George Lewis at University of California San Diego (UCSD), and classical piano with Krzysztof Brzuza. Fjellestad has composed for film, video, theater, dance and has presented his music, film and video art throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, Mexico and Brazil.
He has an extensive discography both as a solo artist and in collaboration with many legendary players on the international experimental music scene. An "innovative musician" (All About Jazz) and "mad scientist improviser" (International DJ Magazine), his music has been described as "unbridled sonic freedom... raw, almost shamanic energy that embodies the true essence of unrestricted music" (XLR8R) and a "spicy concoction... refusing to behave itself, it screams, throws things and makes a mess" (The Wire).
Fjellestad has performed and/or recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Peter Kowald, Lé Quan Ninh, Lisle Ellis, Haco, Miya Masaoka, Money Mark, Donkey, Yoshimi, Takayuki Kato, Saga Yuki, Kojima Takashi, Arai Minako, Susan Rawcliffe, Trummerflora Collective, Thomas Dimuzio, Tetsu Saitoh, David Scott Stone, Marcos Fernandes, Audrey Chen, David Slusser, Baiyon, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Raymond MacDonald, Jakob Riis, P.O. Jørgens, Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Sean Griffin, Eamonn Doyle, Mike Keneally, Nortec Collective, among many others. His recordings are released on Hollywood Records, Accretions, Circumvention Music, Brain Escape Sandwich, Barely Auditable Records, Pan Handler, and Vinyl Communications.
Fjellestad (or his alter-ego, "33") has appeared with Tino Corp., The Album Leaf, Lee Ranaldo, Jello Biafra, Pamelia Kurstin, KK Null, Pamela Z, performing in such far-flung venues as The Stone (NYC), The Roxy (Prague), Shinjuku Pit Inn (Tokyo), Super Deluxe (Tokyo), Urbanguild (Kyoto), Big Apple (Kobe), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), Red Room (Baltimore), ABC No Rio (NYC), Bimbo's 365 Club (San Francisco), Steve Allen Theater (Hollywood), Velvet Jones (Santa Barbara), Jazzorca (Mexico City), Don Loope (Tijuana), SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles), Den Anden Opera (Copenhagen), Yokohama Jazz Promenade, Festival Beyond Innocence (Osaka), REDCAT NOW Festival (Los Angeles), Points In A Circle Festival (Brooklyn), Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Spring Reverb Festival (San Diego/Tijuana), San Diego Repertory Theatre, and the Northwest Electroacoustic Music Festival (Portland).
His film and video work has shown at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Tokyo's Shibuya Cinema Society, Los Angeles Grand Performances Series, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Point Loma Wastewater Plant, Cleveland Museum of Art, Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Miami Art Central, Salina Art Center, IAF Videoart Festival Tijuana, and the São Paulo International Short Film Festival.
Fjellestad's MOOG (2004), a feature-length documentary on synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, was released theatrically across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan. Stephen Holden of the New York Times dubs MOOG a "compelling documentary portrait" of a "provocative, thoughtful and deeply sympathetic figure" and the London Daily Telegraph calls it "brilliantly inspiring on many levels."
MOOG was an Official Selection at numerous international film festivals including the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands 2005), Madrid International Film Festival (Spain 2005), Adelaide International Film Festival (Australia 2005), Naples Sintesi Festival (Italy 2005), Belo Horizonte INDIE Film Festival (Brazil 2005), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic 2004), Sheffield International Film Festival (UK 2004), Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (Ireland 2004), Asheville Film Festival (North Carolina 2004), Bergen Ekko Festival (Norway 2004), and Barcelona In-Edit Film Festival (Spain 2004) where the film took home top honors at the Documentary Awards Ceremony. MOOG is distributed by Plexifilm.
His previous film FRONTIER LIFE (2002) is a documentary feature that explores the strangely inventive world of Tijuana, Mexico. Filmmaker Magazine calls the film a "fresh... quick-paced, smartly edited doc that boasts an innovative score." FRONTIER LIFE has screened in theaters across the U.S., Canada, Spain and Mexico with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts Council, Centro Cultural Tijuana, and El Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.
FRONTIER LIFE was an Official Selection at the Mexico City International Film Festival (Mexico 2005), ARCO Madrid International Festival of Contemporary Art (Spain 2005), Barcelona Festival of Contemporary Mexican Art (Spain 2005), Sound Unseen Film & Music Festival (Minneapolis, MN 2003), Northwest Film Forum (Seattle, WA 2003), D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center Art Under the Bridge Festival (Brooklyn, NY 2003), San Antonio Cinefestival (New Mexico 2003), and Calgary International Film Festival (Canada 2002). FRONTIER LIFE is distributed by Third World Newsreel.
He is currently writing/directing several narrative feature film projects including LORDS OF CHAOS, a story set in the Norwegian Black Metal music scene of the early 1990s. His next music documentary WEAPON SONG is in pre-production.
Fjellestad has appeared on NPR "Day to Day", WBAI New York, BBC Radio 4 "Front Row", Canal 22 Mexico, MTV Latin America, ARTE "Kultur", Danmarks Radio "Klassisk", Prague Radio 1, and been featured in the New York Times, Keyboard Magazine, La Prensa, Japan Times, The Wire, Verdens Gang (Norway), International Herald Tribune and the Guardian UK.
He has given master classes and lectures at various academic institutions including Columbia University, San Francisco Art Institute, Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (el CUEC) and Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City, Palomar College, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), University of California San Diego (UCSD), Center for Research in Computing & the Arts (CRCA) in La Jolla, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Fjellestad co-founded the Trummerflora Collective, and has worked as a curator/producer for the international art initiative, inSite_05. He is currently doing a residency at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood, curating the monthly music series ResBox.
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