FOUR DAYS WITH MUSIC, ART AND THEATRE
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Photo: Mario del Curto
2018 3.4.5.6. MAY AARHUS (DK)
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THURSDAY MAY 3
17.00-17.30 17.00-20.00 19.00-19.30 20.00 22.00
OPENING RECEPTION / MEET THE ARTISTS, WHITE SUN by SØS Gunver Ryberg, Nathalie Mellbye and Anja Behrens @ Spanien 19C CARAVAN by Gwen Rouger @ Filmby Aarhus, outside PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK with Matthias Mohr, dramaturg of Stifters Dinge @ Filmby Aarhus STIFTERS DINGE by Heiner Goebbels @ Filmby Aarhus, Studio 1 SALIMS SALON by Hannes Seidl @ Åbne Scene – Godsbanen
FRIDAY MAY 4
14.00-17.00 16.00 17.00 20.00 21.00
CARAVAN by Gwen Rouger @ Kunsthal Aarhus, garden FERNISSAGE & PERFORMANCE, ORGEL by Ida Lundén and Johanna Mårtensson @ Kvindemuseet STIFTERS DINGE by Heiner Goebbels @ Filmby Aarhus, Studio 1 GAZE FOR GAZE by Niels Rønsholdt @ Filmby Aarhus, Studio 2 SHITNEY, support LARS GREVE @ Radar
SATURDAY MAY 5
12.00/13.00 13.00 14.00-20.00 15.00 17.00 20.00 21.30
PERFORMANCE, ORGEL by Ida Lundén and Johanna Mårtensson @ Kvindemuseet OPEN WORKSHOP/IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS: A COLLECTIVE NORDIC EXPERIMENT by Duo Hellqvist/Amaral @ Teater Refleksion THE WALLS ARE MOVING by Ragnhild May and Stefan Maier @ Sankt Lukas Kirke STIFTERS DINGE by Heiner Goebbels @ Filmby Aarhus, Studio 1 ERINDRINGENS DISSONANS by Maj Hasager and Ask Kæreby @ Dortesvej 37, Gellerupparken OUR EARS FELT LIKE CANYONS by Zwerm @ Åbne Scene – Godsbanen GAZE FOR GAZE by Niels Rønsholdt @ Filmby Aarhus, Studio 2
SUNDAY MAY 6
SPOR 2018 PROGRAMME
11.00-11.30 11.00-14.00 12.30-13.00 13.30 15.00 17.00 19.00 20.15
MEET THE ARTIST / Gwen Rouger @ Kunsthal Aarhus, garden CARAVAN by Gwen Rouger @ Kunsthal Aarhus, garden MEET THE ARTISTS / Juliana Hodkinson, Michael Madsen and SCENATET @ Rum46 SPOR NEW MUSIC SCHOOL CONCERT @ Dokk1, Store Sal IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS: A COLLECTIVE NORDIC EXPERIMENT by Duo Hellqvist/Amaral @ Teater Refleksion GAZE FOR GAZE by Niels Rønsholdt @ Filmby Aarhus, Studio 2 THE WAY SOUNDS GO: Closing concert with Simon Steen-Andersen and Decoder Ensemble @ Åbne Scene – Godsbanen CLOSING RECEPTION @ Godsbanen
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EXHIBITION PROGRAMME MAY 3-27
May 3-27/13.00-17.00 WHITE SUN by SØS Gunver Ryberg, Nathalie Mellbye and Anja Behrens @ Spanien 19C May 3/17.00-20.00 CARAVAN by Gwen Rouger @ Filmby Aarhus, outdoor May 4/14.00-17.00 CARAVAN by Gwen Rouger @ Kunsthal Aarhus, garden May 4-6/10.00-17.00 ORGEL by Ida Lundén and Johanna Mårtensson @ Kvindemuseet May 4-6/13.00-17.00 ANGEL VIEW by Juliana Hodkinson, Michael Madsen and SCENATET @ Rum46 May 5/14.00-20.00 THE WALLS ARE MOVING by Ragnhild May and Stefan Maier @ Sankt Lukas Kirke May 5/17.00-18.00 ERINDRINGENS DISSONANS by Maj Hasager and Ask Kæreby @ Dortesvej 37, Gellerupparken May 6/11.00-14.00 CARAVAN by Gwen Rouger @ Kunsthal Aarhus, garden
VENUES
1. Åbne Scene – Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3 2. Teater Refleksion, Frederiksgade 72 B, 1 3. Radar, Skovgaardsgade 3 4. Spanien 19C, Kalkværksvej 5A 5. Sankt Lukas Kirke, Skt. Lucas Kirkeplads 1 6. Filmby Aarhus, Filmbyen 23, 1 7. Dokk1, Hack Kampmanns Pl. 2 8. Rum46, Studsgade 46, st. tv. 9. Kvindemuseet, Domkirkepladsen 5 10. Kunsthal Aarhus, garden, J.M. Mørks Gade 13 11. Gellerupparken, Dortesvej 37 / Transport from Aarhus C: Bus 4A from Park Allé/ Banegårdspladsen to Karen Blixens Boulevard/ Verdenspladsen
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TICKETS
DKK 495/DKK 350 (visitors under 30)
TICKETS FOR SINGLE CONCERTS
TICKETS AND TEAM
Presale: DKK 100/ DKK 60 (visitors under 30) At venue: DKK 120/ DKK 80 (visitors under 30) SPOR New Music School concert: DKK 60/ DKK 30 (children under 15)
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FREE ENTRANCE: EXHIBITIONS
WHITE SUN by SØS Gunver Ryberg, Nathalie Mellbye and Anja Behrens, THE WALLS ARE MOVING by Ragn hild May and Stefan Maier, ANGEL VIEW MOVIE by Juliana Hodkinson, Michael Madsen and SCENATET, CARAVAN by Gwen Rouger, ORGEL by Ida Lundén and Johanna Mårtensson and ERINDRINGENS DISSONANS by Maj Hasager and Ask Kæreby
TEAM Festival and Artistic Directors: Anna Berit Asp Christensen and Anne Marqvardsen
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PR and Communication: Pernille Lyng
Printers: Narayana Press
SPOR New M usic School: Educational Leader: Østen Mikal Ore Assistant: Sandra Sohn
CONTACT INFORMATION
Production Manager: Indgreb / Karin Gottlieb
Technical Crew: Pappagallo
Prøvestensbroen 3, 2 DK-2300 Copenhagen S info@sporfestival.dk www.sporfestival.dk
Production Assistant: Nanna Lundgren Volunteer Coordination: Ingrid Østergaard Callesen Production Manager, Gaze for Gaze: Mette Hornbek Hansen, SCENATET 4
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SPOR 2018 Programme Exhibition Programme and Map of Venues Tickets and Team Welcome to SPOR 2018
CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES @ SPOR 2018 Stifters Dinge Salims Salon Gaze for Gaze Shitney, support Lars Greve Workshop: Impossible Situations Our Ears Felt Like Canyons SPOR New Music School Impossible Situations: A Collective Nordic Experiment Closing Concert: The Way Sounds Go
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SPOR 2018 EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 3-27 MAY 23 White Sun 24 Orgel 25 Angel View Movie 26 Caravan 27 The Walls Are Moving 28 Erindringens dissonans [The Dissonance of Memory] ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS @ SPOR 2018 31-41 A-Z of Artists and Performers THANK YOU 47
SPOR Festival would like to thank all our partners
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WELCOME TO SPOR 2018 We are excited to welcome you to SPOR 2018 and four days fully packed with music, drama and art. This year, the main festival programme has been curated by SPOR’s two artistic directors Anne Marqvardsen and Anna Berit Asp Christensen, with a clear ambition to create a festival, where the three parallel tracks of SPOR, a concert and performance programme, an exhibition programme and a learning programme meet, connect and learn from each other in the most explorative way.
WELCOME
Being able to present a festival programme with Heiner Goebbels, one of the greatest artists on the international scene of contemporary music and theater, and presenting one of the main works within new music theatre, Stifters Dinge, truly marks an artistic and curatorial milestone for us, unfolding in particular in the meeting between this international masterpiece and a wide range of brand new pieces by younger Danish composers and artists such as Niels Rønsholdt, SØS Gunver Ryberg, Ragnhild May and Simon Steen-Andersen. Curating and facilitating these meetings demonstrates the success of a year-long mission of supporting and bringing together art forms that work and grow freely between genres, artistic fields and nationalities. As a new feature, the SPOR exhibition programme has been shaped in collaboration with the Belgian/Dutch composer 6
and sound a rtist Cathy van Eck, whose great artistic ingenuity and integrity have contributed to an astonishing exhibition programme of sound installation pieces, of which some can be experienced until the end of May. Since the launch of SPOR’s learning programme SPOR New Music School in 2015, we have been determined to sustain the school as an intrinsic part of the festival, hence facilitating a platform where art meets children and youth, and children meet art. Through hard work and the great support of partners and the Obel Family Foundation, this year the school continues for the fourth year in a row, now entering a new three-year phase, ensuring that music-loving children and young people from the Region of Midtjylland can explore the art of composing music through workshops, encounters and concerts with the festival artists. Creating an open, inquisitive platform for music students, artists, audiences, collaborators, volunteers and random passers-by to meet and explore experimental music and sound art has been a main goal of the whole team behind SPOR 2018 – and we want to thank all our participants for helping us make this come true! Anna Berit Asp Christensen and Anne Marqvardsen Festival and Artistic Directors
CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES
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STIFTERS DINGE A MAGNIFICENT MUSIC INSTALLATION BY HEINER GOEBBELS (2007)
4 MAY 3/20.00 MAY 4/17.00 MAY 5/15.00 DURATION 70” FILMBY AARHUS – STUDIO 1 PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK WITH MATTHIAS MOHR, DRAMATURG OF STIFTERS DINGE MAY 3/19.00-19.30 FILMBY AARHUS
SATURDAY MAY 5
FRIDAY MAY 4
THURSDAY MAY 3
A magnificent artistic experience awaits when SPOR 2018 presents Stifters Dinge on Danish soil for the very first time. Stifters Dinge is a multi-sensuous piece which balances between performative installation art and musical theatre. A ‘no-man’ show consisting of five pianos without pianists and a play without actors, created by the world-renowned composer and artist Heiner Goebbels. With its seductive sounds, images and sensuous elements such as wind, mist, water and ice, Stifters Dinge invites the audience to enter a fascinating and wondrous space of seeing and hearing. Touching on the texts of the 19th century romantic author Adalbert Stifter, this large-scale piece is based on the respect of things and how they tell their own stories.
SUNDAY MAY 6
Stifters Dinge was premiered at the legendary Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne in Switzerland in 2007 and has been performed worldwide in cities and cultural hubs such as New York, Berlin, and Buenos Aires – now reaching the cultural capital of Aarhus to captivate the Nordic audience. NOTE: Stifters Dinge is open for the audience to freely explore the installation an hour after the performances.
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Conception, music and direction: Heiner Goebbels/Set design, light and video: Klaus Grünberg/ Musical collaboration/programming: Hubert Machnik/Sound design: Willi Bopp/ Artistic collaboration: Matthias Mohr Produced by Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne and co-produced by spielzeit’europa I Berliner Festspiele (DE), Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU), schauspielfrankfurt (DE) T&M – Théâtre de Genevilliers/CDN (FR), Pour-cent culturel Migros (CH), Teatro Stabile di Torino (IT), with the co-realization of Artangel London (GB), and supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Presented by SPOR 2018 in collaboration with Filmby Aarhus, and with friendly support of The Danish Arts Foundation, Goethe-Institut Dänemark and Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Photo: Mario del Curto
SUNDAY MAY 6
SATURDAY MAY 5
FRIDAY MAY 4
THURSDAY MAY 3
Danish premiere
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SALIMS SALON A STAGED CONCERT BY HANNES SEIDL (2017)
FRIDAY MAY 4
THURSDAY MAY 3
Salims Salon is a space for musicians of different cultures who deal with the notion of otherness and whose artistic positions elude cultural stereotyping. It is a staged concert in which four musicians deconstruct the Western gaze at ‘the other’, recount their experiences and artistic ideas, speak about identities and clichés, introduce each other to their music, and perform together. The approach is individual, self-confident and immediate. Central to the project is the confrontation of freely improvised music and the measured beat of the clock and score.
Performed by Cedrik Fermont / Seth Ayyaz / Jacqueline George / Ragnhild May / Artistic Direction: Hannes Seidl / Assistant: Tamara Antonijevic / Production Management: ehrliche arbeit – freelance office for culture A Hannes Seidl production, co-produced by the Alte Oper Frankfurt a.M., Konzerthaus Berlin and Philharmonie Luxembourg. Funded by the Musikfonds e.V. appointed by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. In collaboration with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt and Berliner Festspiele / MaerzMusik. Presented by SPOR 2018 in collaboration with Åbne Scene – Godsbanen
SUNDAY MAY 6
SATURDAY MAY 5
Nordic premiere
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Photo: Adrian Smith
4 MAY 3/22.00 ÅBNE SCENE – GODSBANEN
GAZE FOR GAZE AN EXPERIMENTAL OPERA BY NIELS RØNSHOLDT (2017)
NOTE: Due to limited seats, it is necessary for people with a partout ticket to also register for Gaze for Gaze at the SPOR ticket sale at the entrance of Studio 2 in Filmbyen.
THURSDAY MAY 3
Produced by SCENATET, and performed by SCENATET together with singers Daniel Gloger and Ida Urd Bramming and the chamber choir CantiAros
FRIDAY MAY 4
SCENATET: Vicky Wright, clarinet/Andras Olsen, trombone/Sven Micha Slot, piano/ Frederik Munk Larsen, guitar/Kirsten Riis- Rasmussen, violin/Mina Fred, bratsch/ My Hellgren, cello/Matias Seibæk, percussion/ Noelia Mora Solvez, performer / Rasmus Reiersen, performer/Mette Hornbek Hansen, production manager/Ann Berit Asp Christensen, artistic director/Mikkel Jensen, light design
SATURDAY MAY 5
In collaboration with Filmby Aarhus with support from KODA Culture
SUNDAY MAY 6
Gaze for Gaze [Blik for Blik] is an experimental opera about love, choices and consequences. A story about the nature of the love relationship and especially its downsides. The opera was performed for the first time in the winter of 2017 in Copenhagen, and is now re-staged at SPOR 2018. With Gaze for Gaze, composer Niels Rønsholdt seeks to break down the conventional notion of opera and what it can be by reconstructing the format and experimenting deeply with its traditional dramaturgic elements. The heart-wrenching story of Gaze for Gaze unfolds in a conceptually minimalistic universe, where an intimate setting and sensuous atmosphere is created by the dissolution of the divide between stage and audience. By making the audience a central part of the unfurling plot, Gaze for Gaze becomes a personally rooted drama of experimental opera music, invasive sound and forceful light (and darkness).
Photo: Marc Fluri
4 MAY 4/20.00 MAY 5/21.30 MAY 6/17.00 DURATION 100” FILMBY AARHUS – STUDIO 2
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4 MAY 4/21.00 RADAR
SHITNEY, SUPPORT LARS GREVE PROGRESSIVE LATE NIGHT CONCERT
Programme:
In collaboration with Radar, and supported by DJBFA – Composer and Songwriters’ Production Pool and Koda’s Cultural Funds
SATURDAY MAY 5
Photo: Simon Toldam & Niklas Antonsson
FRIDAY MAY 4
THURSDAY MAY 3
21.00/LARS GREVE 22.00/SHITNEY
SUNDAY MAY 6
On this night, the uncompromising Shitney trio and soloist Lars Greve will take us into an unpredictable and progressive universe of improvisations and musical anormality. You can look forward to experiencing an explorative solo set with saxophonist/ clarinetist and composer Lars Greve followed by the three powerful female 12
artists of Shitney: Estonian Maria Faust on saxophone/effects; Danish Katrine Amsler on keys, microguitar and electronic drumming; and Swedish Qarin Wikström on vocals, keys and effects. In this concert sampled voices, energetic beats and playful instrumentals will occupy ear and body. NOTE: Doors at Radar open at 20.00
WORKSHOP: IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS AN OPEN WORKSHOP WITH DUO HELLQVIST/AMARAL
4 MAY 5/13.00 TEATER REFLEKSION
Programme: THURSDAY MAY 3
development of their common, participatory project Impossible Situations: A Collective Nordic Experiment.
SATURDAY MAY 5
FRIDAY MAY 4
With IS:CNE, Duo Hellqvist/Amaral aims to test and expand the boundaries of the role of the instrument, the medium, the stage and the performer – and thereby create (im)possible new spaces for artistic expression.
SUNDAY MAY 6
Experience an artistic project in development close-up, when Duo Hellqvist/ Amaral invite you to take part in an exciting, cross-disciplinary workshop prior to their SPOR 2018 concert. In collaboration with composers Ida Lundén (SE) and Daniel Moreira (BRA/DE), and architect Filippa Berglund, sound designer Max Sauer and photographer Ellen Inga, the duo will delve into the
With the generous support of the Nordic Culture Point and the Nordic Culture Fund
Photo: Ellen Inga
13.00/WORKSHOP 14.00/Q&A
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OUR EARS FELT LIKE CANYONS A CONCERT INSTALLATION BY E-GUITAR QUARTET ZWERM
THURSDAY MAY 3
4 MAY 5/20.00 ÅBNE SCENE – GODSBANEN
As a group that is neither rooted in the rock world nor in classical traditions, the Zwerm e-guitar quartet instead explores the boundaries of genres and fields of musical practice.
SUNDAY MAY 6
SATURDAY MAY 5
FRIDAY MAY 4
At SPOR 2018, the four e-guitarists will explore the notion of acousmatic music and the concept of reduced listening in a very special concert setting that they call Our Ears Felt Like Canyons. Instead of ‘going on stage’, the four musicians will be placed in a circle at the centre of the concert space, surrounded by a curtain concealing the musicians, their actions, and the usually visual aspects of a concert. In this way, our focus is shifted to the experience of the audible universe clandestinely created by the four guitarists. The concert consists of three different pieces, composed especially for this setting by Joanna Bailie (GB), Christopher Trapani (US) and Alexander Schubert (DE).
Nordic premiere
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Last Song from Charleroi by Joanna Bailie is based on field recordings from the decaying Belgian city of Charleroi, and takes the audience into a post-industrial sound universe, exploring the sound of the worn-out city. Shotgun Shoegaze is Christopher Trapani’s contribution to Zwerm’s concert, where blues traditions from the Mississippi Delta fuse with the distorted Shoegaze genre. Wavelet A “Societies/Sciences” is a cross-genre piece for four electric guitars and electronics, composed by Alexander Schubert. The idea behind the piece is that a work can be constructed by an accumulation of different wave files, in this case pre-existing recordings, music pieces and electronic sounds. The piece comes as a combination of an audio project with the existing sound files and a graphic score, from which the four musicians create a sound world inspired by the already existing.
Programme:
LAST SONG FROM CHARLEROI (2017), 17” by Joanna Bailie
SHOTGUN SHOEGAZE (2017), 13” by Christopher Trapani
WAVELET A “SCIENCES / SOCIETIES” (2017), 17”
Performed by Zwerm: Toon Callier / Johannes Westendorp / Bruno Nelissen / Kobe van Cauwenberghe Compositions commissioned by Zwerm with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung In collaboration with Åbne Scene – Godsbanen
Photo: Volker Beushausen
SUNDAY MAY 6
SATURDAY MAY 5
FRIDAY MAY 4
THURSDAY MAY 3
by Alexander Schubert
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SPOR NEW MUSIC SCHOOL A CONCERT BY STUDENTS FROM SPOR NEW MUSIC SCHOOL AND NJYD
4 MAY 6/13.30 DOKK1 – STORE SAL
FRIDAY MAY 4
THURSDAY MAY 3
For the fourth year in a row, SPORs educational flagship SPOR New Music School is part of the festival, inviting children and young people from the Central Region of Denmark to explore the art of composing music. During three intense workshop days the students meet composers and musicians from the festival as well as listen to concerts – all in order to widen their musical horizons and create a platform for their own musical ideas.
SUNDAY MAY 6
SATURDAY MAY 5
Under the guidance of composer and musician Østen Mikal Ore and students from the Composition Programme at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and Malmö Academy of Music, SNMS students will explore the theme of fable-like sounds to reveal some of the stories and compositions that arise when experiment, improvisation and visuals melt together and fuse into new expressions and musical narratives. We will discover the results when SNMS culminates and the SNMS-students take the stage at SPOR 2018 alongside Aarhus-based ensemble Njyd to present their own brand-new musical fables.
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Participating students from the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and Malmö Academy of Music: Tobias Krebs, Bára Gísladóttir, Anders Edström and Lasse Dan Hansen. Visuals by Klavs Kehlet
SUNDAY MAY 6
SATURDAY MAY 5
FRIDAY MAY 4
Photo: Frederikke Hoeijmans Vang
THURSDAY MAY 3
In collaboration with Internet Week Denmark, The Royal A cademyof Music in Aarhus, The Royal Danish Academy of Music in C openhagen, Malmö Academy of Music, composer Østen Ore, Aarhus Musikskole, Randers Musikskole, Den Kreative Skole Silkeborg, Kulturskolen Skanderborg, Horsens Musikskole, and Danish Composers’ Society, and supported by The Danish Arts F oundation, Spar Nord Foundation, The Obel Family Foundation and Sweet Intentions/Hey Yum
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IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS: A COLLECTIVE NORDIC EXPERIMENT A CONCERT PERFORMED BY DUO HELLQVIST/AMARAL
THURSDAY MAY 3
4 MAY 6/15.00 TEATER REFLEKSION
FRIDAY MAY 4
Violinist Karin Hellqvist (SE) and pianist Heloisa Amaral (BRA/NO) are celebrated for their inquisitive and fearless approach to exploring contemporary music. At SPOR 2018, the duo presents the latest developments in their project ‘Impossible Situations: A Collective Nordic Experiment’. With IS:CNE Duo Hellqvist/Amaral aims to test and expand the boundaries of the concert experience, the role of the instrument, the medium, the stage and the performer, thereby creating (im)possible new spaces for artistic expression.
SUNDAY MAY 6
SATURDAY MAY 5
This is a chance to experience an artistic project in development close-up as Duo Hellqvist/Amaral present a unique concert with new pieces by the composers Ida Lundén (SE), Marina Rosenfeld (US), Lisa Streich (SE) and Daniel Moreira (BRA/DE), created in collaboration with architect and performance designer Filippa Berglund as well as sound designer Max Sauer, and documented by photographer Ellen Inga. The Delivery is a new piece for violin, piano and video/soundtrack by Daniel Moreira, created in close collaboration with the Duo Hellqvist/Amaral. Inspired by the sounds, narratives and clichés of action and thriller series for television, the 18
piece plays with elements of tension, suspense and expectation. The musicians serve as the machinery that controls the pacing and dramaturgy of the story: a delivery is taking place. The piece was commissioned with the generous support of the Norwegian Arts Council. Ba-ro-me-ter is a new piece by the Swedish composer Ida Lundén, starting out from the concepts of glissando and vibrato and using recordings from the past. Through the combination of live acoustic piano and violin, and historical audio recordings, this piece explores the development of musical ideals throughout history, and more specifically, variations in air and sound pressure. At the same time, our thoughts are led to early recordings, where the word ‘barometer’ was often used as a test sound. SAFRAN is a piece that both smells and tries to remember smells, written for violin and motorized piano by Lisa Streich. More than any other spice, saffron is very special. It is both sweet and bitter – but more sweet than bitter, and not sweet like sugar, since it has many more directions of sweet. All these varieties of sweetness, which somehow also includes tenderness, are indescribable.
With the generous support of the Nordic Culture Point and the Nordic Culture Fund
Programme:
THE DELIVERY (2018), 8” by Daniel Moreira
BA-RO-ME-TER (2017), 13” by Ida Lundén
SAFRAN (2017), 15” by Lisa Streich
MY RED, RED BLOOD (2011/17), 30”
Danish and World premieres
SATURDAY MAY 5
FRIDAY MAY 4
My red, red blood by Marina Rosenfeld is an installation/performance work for video and live musicians, taking the New York-based poet Kim Rosenfield’s text USO: I’ll Be Seeing You and themes of US military service as its starting point. Projected onto a transparent screen, My red, red blood doubles as a reading of Rosenfield’s elliptical text and a score, calling upon viewer and performer alike to negotiate its dense assemblage of elements: sound, stills and moving images, drawing, and language.
SUNDAY MAY 6
Photo: Frederikke Hoeijmans Vang
There are no words for them, and these directions seem atomically small, leading nowhere by themselves – but the sum of them does. And they do exist! SAFRAN is an abstract plan of a net of fugitive directions that do not lead to a certain goal, but are floating in their existence – and in that way or state of condition define themselves.
THURSDAY MAY 3
by Marina Rosenfeld
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THE WAY SOUNDS GO CLOSING CONCERT BY SIMON STEEN ANDERSEN (2018)
4 MAY 6/19.00 ÅBNE SCENE – GODSBANEN
THURSDAY MAY 3
The Danish composer Simon Steen- Andersen assembles an exciting mix of concert, performance and media art in collaboration with the Decoder Ensemble from Hamburg.
FRIDAY MAY 4
The evening weaves together excerpts from his most recent works, the music theatre piece If This Then That And Now What and the audio-visual piece Asthma, with a newly produced episode of one of Simon Steen-Andersen’s signature pieces Run Time Error, an action-packed audio-visual video-parkour controlled live using two joysticks, expanding onto the stage in live interaction with the ensemble.
SUNDAY MAY 6
SATURDAY MAY 5
The Way Sounds Go will be premiered in the Kai Studio at the exceptional Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg a few days before it is presented at SPOR 2018 on Danish soil for the first time. With this concert, the audience can look forward to being walked around in a musical universe that is magnificent and subtle at the same time – demonstrating Simon Steen-Andersen’s and Decoder Ensembles’s innovative and internationallyrooted collaboration. NOTE: After the concert SPOR will host a closing reception at Godsbanen
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Nordic premiere
Performed by Decoder Ensemble & Simon Steen-Andersen Frauke Aulbert/Leopold Hurt/Andrej Koroliov/Carola Schaal/ Sonja Lena Schmid/Alexander Schubert/Jonathan Shapiro
SUNDAY MAY 6
SATURDAY MAY 5
FRIDAY MAY 4
THURSDAY MAY 3
In collaboration with Åbne Scene – Godsbanen with the friendly support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and Goethe-Institut Dänemark
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Each year SPOR curates an ambitious exhibition programme alongside the festival’s many concerts and performances. The main focus is on sound-based art and installations, along with art works involving performative and live elements.
EXHIBITION PROGRAMME
This year, the exhibition programme has been moulded in collaboration with the renowned Belgian/Dutch composer and sound artist Cathy van Eck, whose great artistic ingenuity and integrity have contributed to a thrilling, ambitious programme that will present audiences with a number of premieres and an intriguing variety of installation art.
SPOR 2018 EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 3 – 27 MAY 22
WHITE SUN A MULTISENSUAL SOUND INSTALLATION BY SØS GUNVER RYBERG, NATHALIE MELLBYE AND ANJA BEHRENS (2018)
4 OPENING MAY 3/17.00
3 – 27 MAY/13.00-17.00 SPANIEN 19C
In collaboration with Spanien 19C and supported by The D anish Arts Foundation and Goethe-Institut Dänemark Commissioned by SPOR festival
World premiere
EXHIBITION PROGRAMME
»For a long time I have had ideas about collaborating with other artists on the staging of music and interdisciplinary encounters where the music/ sound serves as the starting point. I am continuing this process by working with these two artists within the field of theatre, bringing together our common interest in alternative working methods and the exploration of space, movement and improvisation as key elements in the meeting between different artistic expressions.«
Photo: Flemming Bo Jensen
The Danish composer and sound artist SØS Gunver Ryberg, the Norwegian scenographer Nathalie Mellbye and the German director Anja Behrens, combine to present their brand new, collective installation titled White Sun in Spanien 19C’s intimate exhibition space. The vision for the installation is clear: in a mélange of music, space, movement and light, the artistic collective seeks to create a very special, unpredictable audience experience. About the installation and the ongoing process SØS Gunver Ryberg explains:
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Photo: José Figueroa
Danish premiere
ORGEL A VISUAL AND AUDITIVE ORGAN INSTALLATION BY IDA LUNDÉN AND JOHANNA MÅRTENSSON
4MAY 4-6/10.00-17.00 EXHIBITION PROGRAMME
PERFORMANCES MAY 4/16.00 MAY 5/12.00 + 13.00 KVINDEMUSEET
In collaboration with Kvindemuseet
Orgel [organ] is a visual installation and a musical piece. It is a playground with the aim of creating a musical and visual performance interacting with the audience. The installation consists of nine hanging organs, each of them with its own sound, just like a pipe organ. The visitors enter the installation and its quiet yet visually intriguing room of hanging organs, and they are encouraged to create music by blowing into the pipes, or to just watch and listen. 24
By inviting the visitors to be part of the installation’s musical performance and act as an orchestra themselves, Orgel explores materials and sounds that are made in a non-hierarchic way together with the audience. At the same time sound installation is about allowing ourselves to think abstractly, surprising each other, exceeding our limits, and simply trying out the shapes and sounds of everyday materials.
ANGEL VIEW MOVIE AN EXPERIMENTAL AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION BY JULIANA HODKINSON, MICHAEL MADSEN AND SCENATET (2018)
4 MAY 4-6/13.00-17.00 RUM46 MEET THE ARTISTS MAY 6/12.30-13.00 RUM46
In collaboration with Rum46, and supported by the Danish Conductors Association, the Danish Composer’s Society and the Danish Arts Foundation
World premiere EXHIBITION PROGRAMME
Angel View Movie is a music and art video created in collaboration between SCENATET, composer Juliana Hodkinson and filmmaker Michael Madsen, presented for the very first time at SPOR 2018 as part of the festival’s exhibition programme. By means of an experimental and conceptual approach to the format of musical cinematic production, this video piece, based on the underlying score and live concert of Juliana Hodkinson’s Angel View, explores a plethora of urban sound and musical fragments, fusing radio noise, cinematic soundtrack and instrumental theatre, unfolding from the resonance of an empty palace into bustling modern cities.
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CARAVAN A CONCERT MAY 4, 14.00-17.00 KUNSTHAL AARHUS, GARDEN INSTALLATION MAY 6, 11.00-14.00 KUNSTHAL AARHUS, GARDEN FOR ONE SPECTATOR BY GWEN ROUGER (2017)
4 MAY 3, 17.00-20.00 FILMBY AARHUS, OUTSIDE
MEET THE ARTIST MAY 6/11.00-11.30 KUNSTHAL AARHUS, GARDEN
In the shape of a small caravan, this performative concert installation plays with the evocation of freedom and the exploration of wild spaces, while provoking a very singular intimacy. Caravan is a home ‘away from home’, and the return of the nomad who dozes in the depths of each of us.
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During a span of three hours, the caravan is open for visitors to explore a homely musical concept, placing the audience at the heart of the performance.
Photo: Sasha Engelmann
Gwen Rouger invites a single spectator at a time into the caravan for between ten and twenty minutes to experience at very close range a performance of composer Charlie Sdraulig’s piano piece Collector: a choreography of hands discovering the sonorous landscape of the keyboard.
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Nordic premiere
The spectator is seated right next to the performer, and this gives rise to an intense, intimate and warm one-on-one relationship. Meanwhile, passers-by can glimpse inside the caravan and perhaps hear a few sounds from this specific concert situation and hyper-sensitive musical zone, challenging them to question the role of the spectator and the audience.
4 MAY 5 14.00-20.00 ST. LUKAS CHURCH
World premiere
THE WALLS ARE MOVING A FANTASTICAL SOUND INSTALLATION BY RAGNHILD MAY AND STEFAN MAIER
Performed by Sofie Gerup/Andreas Felipe Dominguez Simonsen/Mette Hommel Østerlund/ Anna T hordal Pedersen/Emil Helbro/Jens Erik Raasted/Kristoffer Raasted/Xenia Xamanek Lopez/Anna Jalving/Morten Rasmussen/Frederik Sakham/Jeppe Østergaard Munk/Claus Strøm/Johan de Reybekill/ Cilla Leitao/Andreja Andric/Sune Pors/Camilla Maike Juul Jensen/Þór Arnarsson/Francesca Burattelli Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation Commissioned by SPOR festival
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materials. This space will be invested with sound through unpredictable digital feedback from loudspeakers and a subwoofer placed around the church building, embellished by an ensemble of live instrumentalists. Via a dynamic listening score, the ensemble will respond and mix into the unpredictable feedback, conflating real and virtual space.
Photo: Jonas Fogh
For SPOR 2018, the two sound artists Ragnhild May (DK) and Stefan Maier (CA) have joined artistic forces to create to present a new, six-hour performative installation piece titled The Walls Are Moving. During the six hours of the piece, May and Maier will create a fantastical, multidimensional room inside the St. Lukas’ Church in Aarhus, while exploring the resonant qualities of a digitally-modeled space, one which can mutate fluidly between different dimensions and
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ERINDRINGENS DISSONANS [THE DISSONANCE OF MEMORY] A SITE-SPECIFIC SOUND PERFORMANCE BY MAJ HASAGER AND ASK KÆREBY (2018)
4 MAY 5, 17.00-18.00 DORTESVEJ 37 – NEAR E&P HUSET AND SIGRIDS UDESTUE
(ALONG KAREN BLIXEN BOULEVARD IN GELLERUPPARKEN)
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World premiere
Erindringens dissonans [the dissonance of memory] is an interdisciplinary art project by composer Ask Kæreby and visual artist Maj Hasager, rooted in social housing project Gellerupparken’s history, and focusing on personal memories and their significance for historical writing about a place in terms of more than just architecture and local events.
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Erindringens dissonans materialises as a film, a composition of abstract audio objects and a series of works based on stories and descriptions of collected private photos as well as material from the local archive. At SPOR festival, the auditive side of the project will be premiered at a site-specific live performance, incorporating field recordings from the Gellerupparken/Toveshøj area, and performed with an extensive sound diffusion speaker set-up.
Transport from Aarhus C: Bus 4A (every 10 minutes) from Park Allé/Banegårdspladsen to Karen Blixens Boulevard/Verdenspladsen
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PLEASE NOTE: Meeting point at the bus stop Park Allé/Banegårdspladsen in Aarhus C at 16.15. From here we will go together via public bus to the performance at Gellerupparken/Dortesvej 37.
Photo: Bo Sigismund
Supported by Sigrids Stue, Gellerup Kulturmidler, Ragnvald and Ida Blix’ F oundation and the Danish Arts Foundation
Abstract electronic audio objects have been assembled into a composition involving references to the Le Corbusier-inspired architecture, and the recent history and planning of the area. By being performed live in Gellerup, this performance seeks to involve the local public from Gellerup and Aarhus in general, and to create alternative perspectives on the specific area.
QR codes are located around the area where the sounds used in the composition were recorded, linking to both the real and the processed sound. Several of the original sounds have disappeared with the changes arising from the transformation of the area in accordance with the municipal masterplan (“helheds planen”).
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ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS
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1979) is a musician, composer and teacher, working in the field of multimedia. He is interested in exploring cross-genre interfaces between acoustic and electronic music, combining different musical styles (like hardcore, free jazz, popular electronic music, and techno) with contemporary classical concepts. The use of the body in electronic music and the transportation of additional content through gestures are key features in his pieces, which aim to empower the performer and achieve a maximum level of energy by means of sensors and visual media. Besides working as a composer and solo musician, Schubert is also a founding member of the Decoder Ensemble.
ANJA BEHRENS
(DE, 1972) is a German director who holds a degree from the Danish School of Performing Arts in Denmark and who has studied acting at the Michael Tschechow Studio, Berlin. She has been involved in a long line of productions at home and abroad, and received a nomination for the Reumert Exceptional Award in Denmark for her production of Rose in 2016.
ASK KÆREBY (DK,
1978) is a Danish composer, a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Working primarily in the field of experimental sound composition and electroacoustic music, his artistic practice is characterized by interdisciplinarity and a research-based approach, using composition and sound design as story-telling methods, inspired by a wide range of approaches including soundscape, musique concrète and the bruitism of the futurist. Ask Kæreby also teaches at the Danish Music Academy, Aarhus, ARTLAB, and other places of education.
CANTIAROS (DK) is
a chamber choir from Aarhus, consisting of approx. 20 singers. They sing classic choral music from the Renaissance to present day. The choir is led by director Michael Hvas Thomsen, organist at Horsens Klosterkirke, where he is the leader of Klosterkirkens Vokalensemble.
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ALEXANDER SCHUBERT (DE,
CEDRIK FERMONT
(CGO, 1972) is also known as C-drik, and resides in Berlin. He studied electroacoustic music in Belgium under the direction of Annette Vande Gorne, and since 1989 he has been active in several music projects such as Crno Klank, Axiome, Tasjiil Moujahed and as a solo artist. He has collaborated with dozens of musicians from the free improvisation, noise and electro music scenes. Fermont is the manager of Syrphe, an online platform for alternative musicians from Asia and Africa.
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CHARLIE SDRAULIG (AU,
1985) composes tenuous interactions in sound at perceptual and physical thresholds. His music has been performed throughout Europe, America and Australasia by the Spektral quartet (USA), Adam Tendler (USA) at the MATA festival, Zubin Kanga (Australia), Distractfold (UK), among many others. Originally hailing from Australia, he is currently pursuing a Doctorate at Stanford University in the USA.
CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI (US, 1980)
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holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard, where he studied composition with Bernard Rands and poetry under Helen Vendler. He spent most of his twenties studying and researching music in London, Istanbul, and Paris. Trapani synthesizes disparate influences, weaving both American and European stylistic strands into a personal aesthetic that defies easy classification. Snippets of Delta Blues, Appalachian folk, Dance band Foxtrots and Turkish makam can be heard alongside spectral swells and meandering canons.
DANIEL GLOGER
(DE, 1976) is a German countertenor, a pupil of Herbert Klein and France Simard among others. Since 1994 he has been a member of the ensemble Neue Vocalsolisten, an ensemble dedicated to new music. In 1997 he founded Orpheus Britannicus and since 2000 he has been making popular music such as operetta, pop songs and evergreens with the Tenorissimo ensemble. 32
DANIEL MOREIRA
(BR/DE, 1984) is a Brazilian-German composer and conductor of contemporary classical music. He has studied composition and music theory across the globe with teachers such as Marco Stroppa, Manfred Stahnke and C.L. Chaves. His interests include the incorporation of found objects and daily media into composition, ranging from household devices, music boxes, toys, electrical machines to online videos. He is passionate about building his own musical gadgets out of unusual objects, similar to his use of found objects, Moreira likes to treat musical materials as building blocks that can be reordered, cut, pasted, sampled as well as transformed into new objects.
DECODER ENSEMBLE (DE)
considers itself a “band” for contemporary music and is one of the most innovative and unpredictable young ensembles on the new music scene. Their fresh and energetic sound, stemming from their distinct combination of electric and acoustic instruments and voice, sets them apart from conventional contemporary chamber music ensembles. Surprising collaborations, experimental instrumental music, multimedia elements and conceptual performance art all play a large role in Decoder’s programming. Decoder emphasizes the contemporary format in the presentation of their concerts, incorporating carefully selected performance venues and an over-arching dramaturgy.
SE) is a Nordic-based duo formed by violinist Karin Hellqvist (SE) and pianist Heloisa Amaral (BRA/NO). Since 2009 it has played an outstanding role in the field of experimental music, performing new works in Norway (Ultima Festival, Borealis), Germany (Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Kontraklang), and Colombia (Festival de la Imagen). Duo Hellqvist/Amaral recently started two larger projects, Disobediences in Sound and Impossible Situations: A Collective Nordic Experiment (IS:CNE), an initiative partly funded by the Nordic Culture Fund, with collaborators including architect Filippa Berglund, sound director Max Sauer, photographer Ellen Inga and a wide range of talented composers.
ELLEN INGA (IS,
1983) is a photographer based in Iceland. Ellen has studied design and photography, and she graduated from The School of Photography in Iceland in January 2016 with an exhibition of her final project about environmentalism, containing about 550 photographs. Ellen Inga works as a freelance photographer and at the same time runs a design and photography business.
FILIPPA BERGLUND (DK/SE,
1973) is an architect, scenographer and set designer, with extensive experience of the Danish new music scene. As a scenographer she has worked at Teater Nordkraft, The National Theatre in Oslo and Riksteatern in Sweden, and for many years Berglund has also been working with Ditte Maria Bjerg, the artistic director of Global Stories.
GWEN ROUGER
(FR, 1978) is a musician and an active mediator between the spectator and the piece. The emotional core of a piece is the point of departure of her reformulations in the context of her concert performances. All elements are arranged so as to foreground this core and share it with utmost directness. This explorative approach underlies the development of her performative installations. Gwen holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Music Performance from The Royal College of Music in London. She has performed as a soloist as well as chamber musician in many parts of the world including Paris, London, Australia and Singapore. Rouger is the co-director and pianist/ keyboardist of the Soundinitiative and We spoke ensembles for new music.
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DUO HELLQVIST/ AMARAL (BR/NO/
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HANNES SEIDL
(DE, 1977) is a German composer who works with music theatre, installations, short movies and radio plays. Seidl has received numerous accolades, including first prize at the Impulse competition in 2005 and the Composition competition at Bremen Landesmusikrat 2006. He has spent thirteen years working with Nicolaus A. Huber and Thomas Neuhaus at Folkwant Academy in Essen. He has developed pieces with renowned ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, KNM Berlin, Ensemble Mosaik, Klangforum Wien and the New Vocal Soloists Stuttgart. Seidl has created works in Paris and Berlin and his compositions have been presented at Donaueschinger Musiktagen, Ultraschall-Festival Berlin and Festival Ultima Oslo. H-J | ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS
HEINER GOEBBELS (DE,
1952) is a world-renowned composer and director, and belongs to the most important exponents of the contemporary music and theatre scene. Goebbels’ works goes back more than 3 decades and nearly all of his music theatre work have been performed between 50 and 150 times at the major music and theatre festivals in Europe, USA, South America, Australia and Asia. His compositions for ensembles and big orchestras published by Ricordi Berlin are currently performed worldwide as well as several of his music theatre pieces and staged concerts, mostly produced by Théatre Vidy-Lausanne. He has received numerous awards and accolades worldwide including the Prix Italia, the Europe Theatre Prize and the International Ibsen Award, one of the world’s most 34
prestigious theatre awards, for bringing “new artistic dimensions to the world of drama and theatre.” Goebbels is former artistic director of the International Festival of Arts Ruhrtriennale.
IDA LUNDÉN (SE,
1971) is a composer and musician, active mainly in chamber music, electronic and improvised music. Over the last few years she has attracted attention for her imaginative works for sometimes unusual combinations of instruments such as viola and potatoes or bass singers and double basses. She particularly enjoys collaborating with other musicians, film makers and artists, and her music has been played at festivals including Musica Nova (Helsinki), Klang Festival (Copenhagen), Piano+ (Karlsruhe), Tokyo Jazzfestival, Nordic Music Days.
JACQUELINE GEORGE (ET, 1988)
is a sound and visual artist and vocal writer. She studied Digital Games as an art medium, and she is interested in field recordings, creative coding and human sounds and is draws creative inspiration from the noise of Cairo, where she resides. She is fascinated by the ability of sound to carry ideas and draw mental images. George experiments on creating special environments, using performance and visual elements, contemporary dance and videos. Her works are based on mind maps and the results of brainstorming that revolve around image, universe, body, time and invisible reality.
(GB, 1973) is a Berlin-based composer who has studied composition with Richard Barrett and electronic music at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Holland. Her music has been performed by groups such as Ensemble Musikfabrik, L’instant Donné, EXAUDI and Ensemble Mosaik. Her recent work includes chamber music and installation and is characterized by the use of field recordings alongside acoustic instruments. She is also interested in the interplay between the audio and visual as evidenced by her works for camera obscura, which include the installation The place you can see and hear and the music-theatre piece Analogue. With composer Matthew Shlomowitz, Joanna is the founder and artistic director of Ensemble Plus-Minus.
JOHANNA MÅRTENSSON
(SE, 1975) works with scenography and costume design for theatre, dance, film, photography and her own projects and collaborations. Johanna studied Theatre Design at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London, and when she graduated in 1999 she was nominated for the Linbury Prize for Stage Design. Her work has been exhibited at Soho Photo Gallery, New York, 1650 gallery, Los Angeles, Liljevalchs Vårsalong, Stockholm and she was awarded the Platinum A Design Award for her work DECOR.
JULIANA HODKINSON (UK,
1971) works with instruments, objects, electronics, text, voice and visual formats. Field recordings, foley, media samples and spoken word also figure in both her live and installation works. Her pieces stretch widely from intimate chamber works to scenic inspired works within film, text and/or speech and larger electronic acoustic productions. Installations also play a part in her productions, these include works such as Katrine’s Corridor and Defending territory in a networked world. Even the smallest of Hodkinson’s works involve much more than music; she uses objects, light and movement as sound sources and often works in a field which borders on live art or live audio play. The collaboration with professional classical musicians is a central element in her productions and long-term relations with certain musicians, has been significant in her ability to work even further in certain directions involving her work.
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JOANNA BAILIE
LARS GREVE (DK,
1983) is a Danish saxophonist, clarinettist and composer based in Copenhagen. He has toured worldwide in numerous constellations, stands behind different public art projects, composed music for several theater and dance pieces, and released records as a soloist, band member, label owner and collaborator with a host of varied artists.
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LISA STREICH (SE,
1985) studied Composition and Organ in Berlin, Stockholm, Salzburg, Paris and Cologne with among others Johannes Schöllhorn, Adriana Hölszky, Mauro Lanza and Margareta Hürholz. Her music has been played by a wide range of orchestras and ensembles, among others Deutsche Symphonieorchester Berlin, Quatuor Diotima, Ensemble Recherche, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and Eric Ericson chamber choir and Sweden’s r adio choir at festivals such as MATA New York, Ultraschall Berlin, Tzlil Meudcan Tel Aviv, Ircam Paris, Wien Modern and Cologne Cathedral.
MAJ HASAGER (DK,
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1977) is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She studied photography and fine art in Denmark, Sweden, and the UK, earning an MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. Her work deals with power structures, identity, memory, architecture, and the construction of history, looking at how these interlinked phenomena are interpreted and represented culturally and spatially. Her artistic approach is research based and interdisciplinary, and she works predominantly with text, sound, video, and photography. Her work has been exhibited internationally in events and at institutions such as Lunds Konsthall, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, (Rome), Critical Distance (Toronto), and GL STRAND (Copenhagen), and she is the recipient of several international residencies.
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MARINA ROSENFELD
(US, 1968) is a New York-based artist and composer. Her work has been at the forefront of experimental practices in sound and performance since the 1990s, when she mounted her first all-female electric-guitar ensemble under the name Sheer Frost Orchestra. Her works are known for a complex integration of notation and improvisation as the basis for sculptural interventions into monumental and/or resonant spaces and a conceptual approach to the deployment of loudspeakers, bodies and musical forms. Rosenfeld has also performed as an experimental turntablist since the late 1990s, creating improvised music with a distinctive palette of hand-crafted dub plates. Her work has been presented at numerous institutions, festivals and museums including the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum in New York and Tate Modern in London.
MAX SAUER (DE,
1990) is a sound engineer who specializes in sound design and scenic technical know-how. Sauer has a background from the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. Since 2012, Sauer has been working with sound design and recordings at the Summer course for New Music Darmstadt.
(DK, 1971) is a conceptual artist and the director of the multiple award-winning Into Eternity (2010). Recent films include Halden Prison, in 3D and part of Cathedrals of Culture initiated by Wim Wenders and THE VISIT, which premiered at Sundance 2015. In addition, Michael has been guest lecturer at a.o. The Royal Danish Academy of Art, The Danish Film School, University of California, University of Western Sydney, and School of Architecture in London. Workshops include Workshop For Individuals With Absolutely No Idea For A Film.
NATHALIE MELLBYE
(NO, 1984) is a Norwegian scenographer living in Denmark. She holds a degree from the National Theatre Academy in Denmark, ad previously having studied in the field of stage and theatre technology with a focus on set design at Malmö University in Sweden. She focuses on her passion for working with people who hold different points of view on art and performances, developing the appropriate concept and approach for each project and process.
NIELS RØNSHOLDT (DK,
1978) is a Danish composer whose work features opera, installations, performances and concert music. Rønsholdt’s primary genre is that of method composition, where conceptional constructions involve performance, text and a musical idiom referring to mainstream music, early music and other forms. He holds a degree from the Danish Academy of Music in Aarhus, studying under Aage Rasmussen and Bent Sørensen, and under Helmut Oehring in Berlin. He has been commissioned by celebrated international ensembles and has been performed at most European contemporary music festivals. A long line of rewarding collaborations include those with SCENATET, visual artist Signe Klejs and singer/instructor Lore Lixenberg.
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MICHAEL MADSEN
NJYD (DK) is a quartet
consisting of some of the finest young musicians in the country, each of whom has earned a reputation nationally and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. With their special interest in New Nordic Music, the quartet wishes to make their music accessible to established audiences as well as at new music festivals, but also in places where this genre of music rarely is performed. NJYD consists of Marie Sønderskov, Jonas Weitling, Anja Nedremo and Mikkel Egelund. They are all driven by a passion to break down barriers, traditions and test new ideas so as to create new forms of expressions and concert styles.
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RAGNHILD MAY
(DK, 1988) is a Copenhagen-based artist working in the field between visual arts and music. She uses installation, performance and sculpture, and her works have been shown widely on an international level, including recent performances and exhibitions at Issue Project Room (USA), Konsthall Varberg (SE), SuperDeluxe (JP), and The Danish National Gallery. Recent awards and grants include International Studio & Curatorial Progam (NYC), The Danish Composer Society and the Danish Arts Council. May studied at Akademie der Bildende KĂźnste Wien and Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.
SCENATET (DK) is
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recognized as one of the most innovative and experimental ensembles for music and art in Europe. The ensemble moves in a cross-genre field of music, drama and happenings to areas with genres yet undefined. They collaborate closely with the younger generation of Danish composers and they are strongly commited to the international avant-garde repertoire. Bringing their genre-experimenting repertoire to cutting-edge venues, renowned festivals and cultural hubs all over the world, SCENATET makes their music and art widely accessible to the public, locally as well as internationally.
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SETH AYYAZ
(UK, 1970) is a London-based composer and performer. His works involve live-electronic, free improvisation and noise music, electro acoustics and instrumental music with Nay and Ghaita flutes and Darbuka and Daf hand-percussions. Ayyaz studied at the Department of Acousmatics in London, specializing in live electronics and machine listening. His works have been presented internationally at the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Finland, Cafe Oto in London, Kunsthalle Luzern in Switzerland, Irtijal Festival in Beirut as well as MaerzMusik in Berlin. In 2010, he was a curator of the MazaJ Festival for experimental music from the Middle East in London.
SHITNEY (DK, EE,
SE) was formed in 2015 with the purpose of creating contrasting acoustic/electric music. The three members of Shitney are all sonically attuned to one another, their paths having previously intersected in various musical constellations on the Copenhagen scene: tthree women each on the fringe of musical normality in their own different ways. Together, they create an unpredictable mix of the concrete and abstract, using beats and samples along with synthetic and organic sounds.
1976) is a Berlin-based composer, performer and installation artist, working in the field between instrumental music, electronics, video and performance within settings ranging from symphony orchestra and chamber music, with and without multimedia, to stagings, solo performances and installations. Works from the last decade concentrate on integrating concrete elements in the music and emphasizing the physical and choreographic aspects of instrumental performance, including amplified acoustic instruments in combination with samples, video, simple everyday objects or homemade constructions. He has received numerous awards and grants. Steen-Andersen studied composition with Karl Aage Rasmussen, Mathias Spahlinger, Gabriel Valverde and Bent Sørensen, in Denmark and abroad.
STEFAN MAIER
(CA, 1990) is a Canadian artist working in composition, improvisation and sound installation. His installative work has been presented by HKW in Berlin and 67 in New York, while his compositions have been performed by Fonema C onsort in Chicago, Experimental Studio des SWR in Freiburg, Talea Ensemble New York, and Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne Montréal. Recent performances include duos with Jennifer Walshe and Ragnhild May, and appearances at HKW, Ultima Oslo, and Vancouver New Music. Upcoming projects include a new evening length installation for Ultima (NO) in 2018 and a collaboration with choreographer Richard Siegal.
SØS GUNVER RYBERG (DK, 1979)
is a Danish composer and sound artist working in electronic music. An artist capable of flipping between deep plunges into sound art and industrial rhythms and techno, she has a reputation for challenging the state of consciousness with transformative music experiences of insistent rhythms, combined with a meticulous exploration of textures and timbres. Ryberg has quickly become celebrated for delivering music with an undeniable ‘live’ quality and uncompromising intensity. In Berlin she has performed at the Atonal Festival, Boiler Room and Tresor Club. She performs in a variety of unconventional spaces and exhibits sound installations, and has been invited to perform in places as far afield as Rio de Janerio, New York, Saint Petersburg and Istanbul.
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SIMON STEEN- ANDERSEN (DK,
ZWERM (BE) is an
e-guitar ensemble that is neither rooted in the rock world nor in classical genres. Zwerm instead explores the boundaries of genres and fields of musical practice. Zwerm was founded in 2007 and has collaborated with many artists including Fred Frith, Mauro Pawlowski, Larry Polansky, Eric Thielemans, Yannis Kyriakides, François Sarhan, Mark Vanrunxt, Sheila Anaraki, Etienne Guilloteau, Stefan Prins and Serge Verstockt.
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ØSTEN MIKAL ORE
(DK, 1967) originally earned his degree in guitar from the Academy of Music in Oslo and in Odense. He later studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus with Bent Sørensen and Karl Aage Rasmussen as his teachers. His music has been performed at various festivals including Discover Denmark, NUMUS, Suså, Festival Archipel and Purcell Room.
Participating students from The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copen hagen and Malmö Academy of Music:
TOBIAS KREBS
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(CH, 1993) is a Swiss composer and classical guitarist. Having studied from 2012-2017 at the Hochschule für Musik Basel (CH) he is now continuing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus with Simon Steen-Andersen, Niels Rønsholdt (both composition) and Frederik Munk Larsen (guitar). His works include performances for various solo instruments, small and larger ensembles, choir, orchestra and music for theatre. His pieces have been performed by Zürcher Kammerorchester, ensemble recherche, ensemble proton bern, E nsemble Phoenix Basel, Calvino Trio, Gyre Ensemble and by the classical guitarist Pablo Márquez.
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BÁRA GÍSLADÓTTIR (IS, 1989) is
an Icelandic composer and musician, based in Copenhagen where she studies at the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Program in composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Besides playing her own music, she is the double bassist of Elja Ensemble, Skark Ensemble, and Balkan-band Orphic Oxtra. She has also performed with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and S.L.Á.T.U.R. Her music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras such as the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, NJYD and Riot Ensemble, and has been selected for festivals such as Dark Music Days, International Rostrum of Composers and KLANG Festival.
ANDERS EDSTRÖM (SE,
1991) is a composer and singer with roots in the musical world of choirs, jazz and video game music. A typical omni-nerd with skills and interests in both the high and the low, and with dreams of a music culture with fewer borders. For his Bachelor exam composition he wrote Nattljudsvaka, a choir ballet.
LASSE DAN HANSEN (DK, 1991)
has studied a BA in composition at The Royal Academy of Music and from autumn 2017 on he will be studying at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. As a composer, he insists on creating musical experiences, which cannot easily be explained or perceived, often placing the audience in the middle of music, that pursues the fantastic.
ultima
oslo contemporary music festival
13 — 22 september 2018
Tickets, information and updates: ultima.no
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MAY 29TH – JUNE 8TH 2018 www.klang.dk
EDITION WILHELM HANSEN Representing Scandinavia’s greatest composers since 1857 www.ewh.dk
SPOR WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OUR PARTNERS FOR CONTRIBUTING TO SPOR 2018! Aarhus Musikskole, Danish Composers’ Society, Den Kreative Skole Silkeborg, Filmby Aarhus, Godsbanen, Horsens Musikskole, Internet Week Denmark, Kulturskolen Skanderborg, Kvindemuseet, Malmö Academy of Music, Pappagallo, Radar, Randers Musikskole, Rum46, SCENATET, Theatre Vidy-Lausanne, The Exhibition Space Spanien 19C, The Royal Academy of Music, The Royal Danish Academy of Music and Åbne Scene
FUNDERS
Aarhus Kommune, Augustinus Foundation, Danish Composers’ Society, Danish Composers’ Society’s Production Pool & Koda’s Funds for C ultural Purposes, DJBFA – Composer and Songrwriters’ Production Pool and Koda’s Cultural Funds, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Gellerup Kulturmidler, Goethe Institut Dänemark, Nordisk Kulturfond, R agnvald and Ida Blix’ Foundation, Sigrids Stue, SNYK, Solistforeningen, Spar Nord Foundation, Sweet Intentions, The Danish Arts Foundation and The Obel Family Foundation
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