Hexahedron documents the second of the two dazzling, sold-out Ulver
shows in the legendary Studio at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter at Høvikodden
back in April 2018. A special commission and “an honourable
undertaking”, as Tore Ylwizaker put it in their career-spanning book
Wolves Evolve – The Ulver Story, published last year. “To orientate our
music into an art setting is appealing to me”, he said. “Doing whatever
we want, not knowing what it’s supposed to become or where it will end
up.”
During the shows at Henie Onstad the band found themselves trapped in a
multidimensional “hypercube” in the middle of the asymmetric space.
Inside it they experimented with all-new ideas in an installation as
galactic as the music presented was unmistakably ulverish. Around them,
the audience moved unhindered among hallucinatory lights and
laser-guided melodies, losing themselves in interstellar clouds of gas,
dust and broken junk of exploded stars. I suppose we were all sidereal
messengers, cruising through the groovy galaxies.