Hild Sofie Tafjord

Hild Sofie Tafjord (born 4 January 1974) is a Norwegian musician, horn player and composer active on the Norwegian and international scenes of experimental music, noise, improvisation and live electronic music.

Born in Langevåg, Norway, Tafjord studied music at Toneheim folkehøgskole together with Maja Ratkje before continuing at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Academy of Music.^[1] Here, Tafjord and Ratkje joined cellist Lene Grenager and trumpeter Kristin Andersen to form SPUNK, an improvising unit that would leave a substantial mark on the Norwegian music scene.[1]

Together with Ratkje, Tafjord also made out the duo Fe-mail (from 2000), and the trio Agrare (with the dancer Lotta Melin). Since 2006, she joined Grenager, flutist Bjørnar Habbestad and basist Michael Duch to form Lemur, a quartet and composition collective. From 2009 she became a regular member of the Berlin-based ensemble Zeitkratzer. Tafjord has also performed in numerous configurations of Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

• Tafjord appears on more than 170 albums, released on labels all across the world.[2] Solo:
• 2007: KAMA (Pica Disk)
• 2014: Breathing (+3 dB) With SPUNK:
• 2009: Det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger (runegrammofon)
• 2001: Filtered through friends (runegrammofon)
• 2002: Den øverste toppen på en blåmalt flaggstang (runegrammofon)
• 2005: En aldeles forferdelig sykdom (runegrammofon)
• 2009: Kantarell (runegrammofon)
• 2013: Das Wohltemperierte Spunk (runegrammofon)
• 2014: Adventura botanica (runegrammofon)
• 2014: Spunk feat. Joelle Leandre. Live in Molde (plus3db records)
• 2016: Still eating gingerbread for breakfast (runegrammofon) With LEMUR:
• 2008: IIIIIII (plus3db records)
• 2010: Aigean (plus3db records)
• 2016: Mikrophonie (plus3db records)
• 2016: Parish of Lemur (plus3db records)
• 2020: Lemur + Reimhold Friedl (sofa)
• 2022: Critical Bands (aurora records) With Zeitkratzer: With Trondheim Jazzorchestra

Her list of collaborators includes Håkon Kornstad, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Ikue Mori, Matmos and others. She has performed with 'Crimetime Orchestra', 'No Spaghetti Edition' and 'Norwegian Noise Orchestra'. Tafjord's cooperation with Kjetil Manheim from Mayhem and Øyvind Berg, is also worth mentioning. Her first solo album was released in collaboration with Lasse Marhaug, the second with Bjørnar Habbestad.

• https://snl.no/Hild_Sofie_Tafjord
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190330042914/http://www.plus3db.net/releases/breathing/
• http://www.picadisk.com/pica003.html
• https://www.zeitkratzer.de/hild-sofie-tafjord-
• https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=hild+sofie+tafjord&type=all&page=2