16th of March 2025

20:00: pre-concert introduction
20:30: concert
21:30: participatory workshop

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CONCERT

A site-related performance installation written for Campanula Quinton, microtonal prepared piano, continuo organ and an interactive multi-channel installation. The installation consists of recycled Canadian and Scandinavian woods. The former coming from a forest near Matt’s mother’s home on the west coast of Canada. The discarded wood has been given new life. With careful sculpting of the wood and attaching transducers to the wood, each “tree” is able to tell a story through their own resonances and materiality. The pieces of wood act as electro-acoustic resonators whereby composed and improvised sounds can pass through.

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WORKSHOP

A pre-concert talk and post-concert workshop will explore specific aspects of Just Intonation as a holistic philosophy and language for developing new musical composition and improvisation vocabularies. A microtonal phenomena, Just intonation explores the acoustic and resonant aspects of our surrounding nature and environment. In connection to the commissioned piece, “woodland Ruins”, we wish to lead a singing and sound walk of the wood installation. Singing and moving, the collective choir of audience/participants can explore the number-dimension 7 in relation to the harmonic series. What does this number sound like?
Where does it transport us?

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ARTISTS

Canadian composer and pianist, Matt Choboter’s music paints subliminal sound narratives between the cracks of avant-jazz, experimental and contemporary classical. Informed by non-
western cultures and eclectic spiritualism, he embraces liminal psychology and dream work; immersive explorations into wild nature; a rather pantheistic existential orientation; and a
musical practice which absorbs particular features of Just Intonation, South Indian classical and Balinese Gamelan.
Contributing to labels such as Kairos (AU), Inner Circle Music (NY), ILK Music (DK) and Songlines Recordings (CA), his music has been described as – “at times heavy and impenetrable, at other times soft and ethereal, but always moving and ever transforming”. (David Sumner, Bandcamp) ”A realized musical dream” – MusicWorks (CA) “Matt Choboter takes us to places no one has been before.” – Nettavisen (NO) “Ephemeral and beautifully fragile” – Passive Aggressive (DK).
https://mattchoboter.com/about/

Lone Aagot Meinich (1995-), artist name Aagot, is a Norwegian performer, improviser and composer, based in Copenhagen, playing violin and a newly invented string instrument, Campanula Quinton. As an interdisciplinary artist she is active in the fields of free improvised, experimental music and visual art. She is also working as a violinist in various contexts, with specialisation in early music and improvisation Aagot creates extended compositions, performance art works and installations. The greater part of her recent work engages in questions related to material based translation across mediums; reproduction and representation of sonic and visual ideas as well as site related work. In this research, she invented a new term for her compositions: “Nonotations”, hybrids between visual art and musical notation. She implement both visuals, reel tapes, video and field recordings together with playing on her instrument.
She is constantly trying to expand her sonic palette by attaching objects to the strings; spirals, sticks, leaves, small vibrators, bells, balls, toys…in the spirit of curiosity and playfulness!

The Campanula Quinton: A newly invented bowed string instrument by the luthier Helmut Bleffert. Shaped as a bell, calling for the spaces in between. The Quinton has 5 strings and 13 sympathetic strings that creates a rich and expressive spectrum of overtones. It carries its presence far regardless of the acoustic setting thus it forms an independent voice able to enter in a dialectical dialogue with the encountered space.

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This concert is organised in collaboration with KoncertKirken and CPH Microtonal Community and supported by KODA.

Entré: 80/120 DKK

Tickets in the door from 19.30.