Initiativet Soundings afholder sit første arrangement i Kødbyen i København med kvadrofoniske koncerter af Claus Haxholm, Sandra Boss og Schweiz-baserede Francisco Meirino.
Soundings er en serie af koncerter, installationer, foredrag, lyttesessioner og andre arrangementer, der undersøger feltet omkring lyd, musik og forskellige praksisser derimellem. Initiativet er kurateret af Maiken Vibe Bauer og Mikkel Rørbo.
Der er fokus på det rumlige aspekt ved lyd som fænomen, og det første arrangement i rækken er således også en række kvadrofoniske koncerter eller performances, hvor lyden altså distribueres gennem fire separate højttalere.
Hvad? Soundings #1
Hvor? H15, Halmtorvet 15, Vesterbro, København
Hvornår? Lørdag den 14. januar kl. 20:30
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Finnish Space Travel
The Finnish multimedia artist Jan Anderzén has, with the album Hoshi, released under the solo moniker Tomutonttu, created a true little star. Not only because »hoshi« literally means »star« in Japanese, but above all due to the music itself. There is something cosmic, yet infinitely minute, about the sonic worlds Anderzén conjures—like a galaxy reflected in a puddle, or a space journey in a rocket carved from a hollow tree trunk. Synths emit busy, warm blips and bloops, while ultra-short vocal and instrumental samples create a recognizable blur. At once artificial and organic – soft, rounded, jagged, crackling.
Anderzén approaches sound with a playfulness I simply adore. His music is strange in an incredibly comforting way. It places me in a kind of colorful, trance-like state, only interrupted when, several times over the course of the album, I find myself smiling in delight at a particularly great sound. The synths on »Katse osuu sähköön!« The choral samples on »Kesä oli äkkiä ohi!« Milo Linnovaara’s flute on »Malta lausua ‘AH’!« And many more. Hoshi is an album packed with microscopic moments that together form a frayed, exploding, radiant, idiosyncratic whole—a stellar moment of just under 38 minutes.