We are delighted to present new and older LOGBOOK entries at the Ultima Festival in Oslo on September 11, 2026, together with the wonderful ensemble asamisimasa, soprano Nina Guo, and composer François Sarhan!

Composer François Sarhan has been keeping a sound diary since 2019. Not in the sense of an intimate diary, but rather a logbook, like that kept by a captain who notes down the events of the day.

The material is either voices – his own or those of other people -, his surroundings, conversations, radio snippets, stolen fragments of conversations, field recordings, jingles, personal compositions, weather forecasts, graphic scores, transcriptions of famous songs or other things. Sarhan is interested in the forgotten, the very small, and – following Georges Perec – the unusual. Through these micro-events, we try to make sense of the situation in which we currently find ourselves; the collective memory is mixed with the individual memory of the spectator.

To accompany this music collection, François Sarhan has designed 80 motif cards that form the basis of the LOGBOOK card game, which can be purchased separately. The Zafraan Ensemble plays the musical diary entries that are part of the card game, and the ensemble asamisimasa plays new entries—thus creating a novel performance with older and new musical logbook entries.

With:

Josa Gerhard – viola

Anna Viechtl – Harfe

Daniel Eichholz – percussion

Clemens Hund-Göschel – keyboard

Jakob Krupp – double bass and electric bass

Nina Guo – soprano

François Sarhan – composer and narrator