13 MAY 15.00 Kunsthal Aarhus
Book Launch Last year Skibene, by Danish composer Jeppe Ernst, had its world premiere at SPOR festival, and this year Jeppe Ernst and SPOR festival 2017 are following up by publishing the piece as a music and art book. Jeppe Ernst is known for his preoccupation with the most fundamental questions about the phenomenon of music. In his consistent perspective, music is not sound and/or tones, but movements and (social) interaction in the fullest sense. The book, Skibene, consists of two parts. The first, Den himmelske Sejlads (The heavenly sailing) is for the imagination, urging the reader to imagine and mingle various smells, ranging form wet asphalt and elderflower to urine and decomposition, thereby creating new harmonies of smells. The second, De jordiske havne (The earthly harbours) guides the reader among specific smells while following three tunes: Melody I – smells from an interior; Melody II – smells from a naked human body; and Melody III – smells from an exterior. The book is published by SPOR festival with support from the Danish Arts Foundation