Sigurd Hole

Exploring listening as a way of deepening our experience of
landscape, memory and the living world.

“Composer of sonically expansive, thoughtfully paced music”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Excerpt reviews

“An overlap of the ancientness of folk music of many kinds, and the ancientness of landscape.”

BBC

“Listen on headphones while tramping through the woods”

THE WIRE

“At the other end of hectiness and chattiness, the tempo of our perception is here dimmed in fascinating beautiful sound. Deeply inspired.”

CHEMNITZER ZEITUNG

"What pushes Hole’s bass work into the realm of the sublime are his refined sense of improvisation and painterly subtlety."

DOWNBEAT

“Elvesang is a quiet, introspective album on which Holes instrumental mastery always comes second to the music itself. An album of profound beauty.”

ALLABOUTJAZZ

“Sigurd Hole is the kind of player whose big and understated sound can subtly deepen any group he joins.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Unique and deeply affecting…A metaphor for how human kind is a part of nature.”

KLASSEKAMPEN

“Paradoxically beautiful”

AFTENPOSTEN

“Masterstrokes of one who intimately knows the inner life of his instrument.”

ECMREVIEWS

“Subliminal folktales from the heart”

THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD

“Sonically expansive, thoughtfully paced music.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Sigurd Hole is a Norwegian composer, double bassist and sound artist. His work explores listening as a creative practice, drawing on relationships between landscape, memory and sound. Through music, sound and interdisciplinary projects, he creates immersive experiences that invite reflection, presence and curiosity.

Current work includes new compositions, solo and ensemble performances, and the development of Fragments, an interdisciplinary project exploring music by Hole’s forefathers in Rendalen as a point of departure for new soundscapes, installations and other artistic expressions.