Over two days, electronic and acoustic music, noise and performance come together. Works are presented that push the boundaries of both the sonic and conceptual frameworks of what music can be.
Ascetic beauty and physical vulnerability form opposites in a class of widely differing expressions. Together, they make new music what it is: a constant renegotiation of our attention, an active intervention in the prevailing – ultimately a question of listening taken to its extreme: What do we hear when we listen beyond the self?
3 March participants:
Love Carbin is a composer, musician and performance artist who stages the body in music. Recurring themes include love, desire and violence. Profane rituals are evoked in dialogue with the history of acoustic instruments. The music is unstable, shifting between fragile silence and sudden outbursts. His music has been performed on stages across Europe.
Emil Nilsson is a composer and musician who works primarily with notated chamber music. His music is often tranquil, characterised by restraint and a particular emphasis on the ephemeral qualities of acoustic music. Nilsson's music has been performed by several international ensembles and at numerous festivals throughout Europe, such as ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week in Sansepolcro, Festival Contrasti in Trento and the Impuls Festival in Graz.
Yorgos (Georgios) Tsomidis was born and raised in Athens, Greece and he is a musicologist, pianist and double bassist. Currently he is studying composition and he explores interactions between different elements that appear on stage. A body with an instrument, a voice with the light, a text, an object, a gesture. He sees the stage as a laboratory where an experience, a narrative, a memory can potentially beunlocked.
4 March participants:
Kenta Felice: I make fucked up weird music in order to forget that I'm going to die at some point.
Raymonde Gaunoux is a transgender danish-north american composer and artist studying an MFA in Experimental Composition & Creation at The Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. Raymonde is engaged with representing queer and transgender identity in music and popular culture and is currently working within the field of mixed media, that centers the transgender embodied experience and voice.
Per Lönnqvist is a Swedish composer based in Gothenburg. He earned his bachelor's degree at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg and is now completing his two-year master's program at the same institution. He previously studied composition at the Gotland School of Composition and computer game music at the University of Skövde. During his studies, he has also been an exchange student at Aichi University of the Arts in Japan.
