Blue Rinse was a live electronic concert series for Lydgalleriet that ran between 2017-20.

Curated by Tijs Ham, Julie Lillelien Porter and Craig Wells, Blue Rinse facilitated a space for artists to try out new performance ecologies, develop approaches to expressing digital, analogue, acoustic and amplified sounds and build relations stretching beyond the local.

Blue Rinse presented these artists: Trond Lossius, Julie Silset, Fridtjof Wesseltoft, Jonas Hamre, Eirik Havnes, Jiska Huizing, Alan O'Raghallaigh, Mathias Loose, Live Sollid Schulerud, Bård Aarvik, Guro Skumsnes Moe, Roar Sletteland, Espen Sommer Eide, Felipe Ignacio Noriega, Arthur Hureau, Knut-Olai Mjøs Helle, Neo Borneo, Rudi Valdersnes, Carsten Aniksdal, Giuseppe Pisano, Mariam Gviniashvili, Adivan, Zeno van den Broek, Andrea Parkins, Erin Sexton, Marieke Verbiesen, Samuel Brzeski, Kim Hankyul, MRD, Andrea Urstad Toft and Kristin Kessler.

Blue Rinse published the series Blue Rinse Papers #1-6 i 2021 with texts written by Francisco López, Tijs Ham, Craig Wells, Andrea Parkins, Magdaléna Manderlová and Alexander Rishaug. The series can be read in our listening library and bought at Lydgalleriet and other venues.