Dato/tid
14.05.2018
20:00 – 22:00
Sted
KoncertKirken
KoncertKirken Organ Sound Art Festival – 14-18 maj 2018
MANDAG 14 MAJ 20.00
Rasmus Kjær (dk)
Jenny Gräf/Mathias Andersen (us/dk)
KoncertKirken Organ Sound Art Festival er en 5-dages musik- og lydkunstfestival i KoncertKirken på Blågårds Plads, som i år løber af stabelen den 14-18. maj.
15 danske og internationale kunstnere præsenterer her musik- og lydværker, der tager udgangspunkt i kirkens romantiske hovedorgel (Marcussen, 1926), og kirkens særlige rum og akustik, ofte sammen med forskellige elektroniske processer.
Festivalen ønsker at udforske relationen mellem lyd, musik og arkitektur samt promovere nye kreative møder mellem de deltagende kunstnere.
Der er to koncerter med 2 solister eller duos hver aften. Værkerne som præsenteres er alle direkte komponerede, eller skabte live, til festivalen.
Tickets: 100 DKK / stud: 50 DKK per evening.
Partout: 300 DKK / stud: 150 DKK
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Rasmus Kjær
I 2016 udgav Rasmus Kjær albummet ”Orgelimprovisationer”, som tog udgangspunkt i en slags udsultning af orgelet, idet han med forskellige teknikker begrænsede orgelets luftindtag så det hylede efter luft.
Ved denne koncert vil orgelet dog få al den luft det kan rumme og forhåbentligt vil instrumentet nyde overfloden af ”mad” ved at brøle af fryd og svælge i selvtilfreds meditation.
Som en særlig ting vil koncertkirkens flygel og lille kisteorgel også indgå i koncerten som medsyngende resonanskasser, hvormed lydoplevelsen vil blive flerdimensionel.
”Orgelimprovisationer” fik følgende ord med på vejen:
Der er noget vidunderligt hedensk over hele dette intuitive, jazzede foretagende, en vidunderlig kødelighed midt i det sakrale” (passiveaggressive.dk).
“Dissonansen får kraftige vibrationer frem, der mest af alt lyder som en fiskekutter.” (Jazz Special)
”Vi får en lyd der bevæger sig henover kirkegulvet som en stille damp. Det er både berusende og besættende.” (jazznyt)
Rasmus Kjær har udover sit arbejde med orgel spillet keyboards med en lang række eksperimenterende navne såsom SVIN, Jeppe Højgaard og Klimaforandringer samt udgivet det akustiske trioalbum ”Broken Bow”.
Læs mere: http://www.rasmuskjaer.com
Lyt til ”Orgelimprovisationer”:
https://soundcloud.com/rasmus-kjaer-larsen/sets/orgelimprovisationer/s-Zdid3
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Jenny Gräf (US/DK)
is a sound, video and performance artist who explores peripheral places and states through composition, improvisation and participatory works. In Gräf’s music and art she invokes immersion and rupture to explore changing perceptions of diegesis and space, formal choices rooted in a deep interest in social roles and behavior.
Gräf has produced sound and video work from projects she designed with people with Alzheimer’s such as The Guitars Project and The Hilgos Project to explore agency within the context of memory loss. She has created a number of pieces that explore social behavior within the context of server/consumer dynamic in pieces like Threshold for Action and Sound, where the audience’s menu selections generates a score for the musicians and food servers. In 2009 she formed The Stone Carving Oraclestra, which uses Experimental Archeology and the use of phonemes to channel sonic “readings” for members of the audience. In 2009 she premiered Proud Flesh, an experimental Western shot in the Badlands of South Dakota that contains an original score by Gräf and collaborator Chiara Giovando. In 2009 she was commissioned by Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago to create Osmosymbiotic Echo, a sound installation for the Chicago Lincoln Park Conservatory’s Fern Room.
Gräf uses the Tranoe, an analogue, touch sensitive analogue synthesizer designed for her by Peter Blasser, to process live vocals, guitar and percussion and to re-organize sound to present mutations of dominant themes in music. Blending non-static patterns with composed sequences her work blurs the lines between noise and song structure. Since 1996 she has been performing with MV Carbon as Metalux. Using processed sounds and open-ended scores, their music is experienced as a kind of sonic fiction. Other music collaborations include those with Chris Corsano (in Soliton), John Wiese, Twig Harper, Marcia Bassett and Chiara Giovando.
Jenny Gräf’s work has performed and screened work at venues such as PS 1 MOMA, Issue Project Room, D’Amelio Terras Gallery in New York, High Zero Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Maryland Film Festival, Brown’s Granoff Center for the Arts, Mukha Museum in Antwerp, CCA in Glasgow, Arnolfi in Bristol, Art Cinema OFFoff in Gent, Jazz House Copenhagen, Institute for New Media in Frankfurt, and the Director’s Lounge and Liebig 12 in Berlin. Her recordings appear on labels such as Atavistic, Ehse, BoxMedia, Load, Wachsender Prozess, Hanson, No Fun, Utech, Obsolete Units and 5rc.
In 2011, together with five other artists, programmers, organizers and activists she formed Greenpants collective and began the Luminous Intervention project which uses large scale public projection and performance to open up conversations around issues such as Unfair Development, the School to Prison Pipeline, Guantanamo and Rape Culture.
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KoncertKirken Organ Sound Art Festival 2018 is supported by Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune, KODA Kultur, Agustinus Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond.