Dato/tid
01.02.2025
20:00 – 22:00
Sted
KoncertKirken
VINTERJAZZ 2025
Nick Martin & Calum Builder: “CHIASM”
Matt Choboter | Air, Strings and Wood
21.00 Calum Builder: “CHIASM”
Matt Choboter: extended piano, zithers, organ samples and multi-channel installation of recycled wood resonators made of Canadian red cedar and Scandinavian Sitka spruce.
Air is about organs. Strings is about re-imagining the piano. Wood is about letting trees speak.
An immersive dream-sharing ritual where the fragile and ephemeral sounds of organs and live prepared piano come together through a vibrant and ecstatic forest installation.
The installation is a celebration of the forest and its capacity for fostering mystery, beauty and spirituality. Combining my native Canadian forests with Scandinavian ones, they somehow connect symbolically to the European churches – and their sprawling organ pipeworks within – that reach up to the sky like the canopy of an old-growth forest.
Canadian composer and pianist Matt Choboter’s music paints dream worlds between the cracks of post-jazz, experimental and contemporary creative music. He has contributed to labels such as Kairos (AU), Inner Circle Music (NY), ILK Music (DK) and Songlines Recordings (CA) and 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)
“Expands and blows the mind” – London Jazz News (UK)
”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)
Calum Builder: ‘I don’t think you should think about these things’
Nick Martin: ‘Mothernaked’
Performed by:
Tove Bagge – viola
Mika Persdotter – viola
Oda Dyrnes – cello
Nicole Hogstrand – cello
Tomo Jacobson – double bass
Johannes Nästesjö – double bass
Efter deres meget roste plader, Messe og Terroir, er dette det første samarbejdsprojekt mellem Calum Builder og Nick Martin. Sammen med et strygerensemble dykker de ned i forældreskabets komplekse følelser og den intense ambivalens i livet i det 21. århundrede og skaber musik, der er indgribende og hjemsøgende.
Projektet Chiasm indeholder værker af Builder og Martin, som spejler hinanden i både tidsskala og perspektiv; Martins værk »Mothernaked« reflekterer over fortiden, mens Builders værk »I don’t think you should think about these things« ser mod fremtiden.
Komponisten og performeren Calum Builder (AU) udforsker ideer om fordybelse og cyklusser og skaber værker, der bevæger sig fra en afklarende stilhed til en nidkær, næsten religiøs inderlighed. Han er fascineret af, at lyd er en transformerende og omfavnende kraft, og hans musik »skaber en symbiose af overstrømmende skønhed og buldrende forstyrrelser« (T.S. Høeg, Jazz Special).
Nick Martin (UK) er en københavnsk komponist, hvis musik er blevet beskrevet som »stille ødelæggende« (Simon Smith, Higher Plain Music). Hans arbejde omfatter en bred vifte af former, herunder solo-, ensemble-, kor- og orkestermusik. Ud over sit kompositionsarbejde optræder Martin med sin egen musik gennem sit projekt Blue Luminaire, som udgav sit debutalbum, Terroir, på Bella Union i 2022.
“Builder possesses a sound of his own” **** – The Canberra Times
Review of Martin’s Terroir ***** – Klassisk magazine
‘I can imagine [Martin’s music] being played on my dream radio show alongside Thee Silver Mt Zion, Jon Hopkins, and Matmos.’ – The Guardian
Vinterjazz i KoncertKirken 2025 støttes af Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune, KODA Kultur, DKF m.fl.