Det tværkunstneriske og ofte konceptuelle ensemble SCENATET opfører i weekenden for første gang i Danmark det operalignende værk ”Infinito Nero” af den italienske komponist Salvatore Sciarrino.

I alt fire gange i løbet af tre dage lægger den gamle Polyteknisk Læreanstalts Maskinhal ved Botanisk Have rammer til opførelsen af denne ”ekstase i et akt” fra 1998, der bl.a. udmærker sig ved en meget sagte progression og ved kun at have én sanger på rollelisten.

”Det er en meget vigtig prioritering for mig, at SCENATET bidrager til dansk musikliv ved at præsentere væsentlige udenlandske hovedværker. Sciarrino har med sin autodidakte og nærmest jomfruelige tilgang til både teknik og tradition åbnet op for en helt ny klangverden bestående af en særlig form for indrammet stilhed kombineret med et repeterende og overjordisk gennemstrålende klangunivers, som har dannet skole i de sidste årtier”, siger SCENATETs kunstneriske leder Anna Berit Asp Christensen.

Som undertitlen antyder, baserer stykket sig på ytringer frembragt af renæssance‐mystikeren Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, der måtte have hele otte nonner til at gentage og nedskrive de ord, hun spyttede og hakkede ud under sine ekstaser.

”Infinito Nero udfolder på fantastisk vis Sciarrinos univers som er både kontrolleret og vildt, befriende og pirrende med sin hvæsen og sukken. Man kan næsten ikke selv få luft når man lytter til det værk”.

Iscenesættelsen står den britiske instruktør og mezzosopran Loré Lixenberg for. Hun har arbejdet med SCENATET siden 2007 og har til denne forestilling skabt scenografi og kostumer i samarbejde med lysdesigner Mikkel Jensen, videokunstner Casper Øbro samt tøjdesigneren Mea Andresen.

"Loré og jeg så begge et stort potentiale for at lave en spændende iscenesættelse og for at arbejde med en scenisk version, der kunne involvere både musikere og værkets solosanger. Mens mange opsætninger fremstiller hovedrollen som sindsforvirret, præsenterer Lixenberg hende som en genial kvinde, og det er stærkt og meget vedkommende efter min mening", afrunder Anna Berit Asp Christensen.

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21.05.2025

Emergent Music

Lauri Supponen: »Dwell«
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As an abstract micro manifesto Lauri Supponen describes his interest in »music that inhabits a second space and lingers there«, an invitation for us to dwell in the moment and discover music in its quiet emergence. 

»Gaz aux étages«, the first composition on Supponen’s breathtaking album, seems to test this idea as it unfolds with whispered bow strokes devoid of pitch. It is as if the piece itself is an entity wondering if it will prove to be music as it tentatively investigates its own constituent components. A subtle opening to an album that answers this question with clarity in its eponymous second work »Dwell« (tracks 2–5), exploring a fascinating microtonal realm. In virtuoso performances of astonishing accuracy, guitarist Petri Kumela and vocalist Tuuli Lindeberg bring Supponen’s demanding four-movement duo to life. The guitar writing in Dwell recalls Norwegian composer Martin Rane Bauck’s Fretted with Golden Fire with its drone-like microtonal strumming – a connection substantiated by the album notes, which reveal both composers know each other and have collaborated with bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone. 

The dwelling-space Supponen offers in »Eau & gaz à tous les étages« and »Opus Nen«, return the listener to a more remote sonic space, reminiscent of the album’s opening albeit with tighter compositional sense. Performed with intensity by Madison Greenstone and baritone saxophonist Sikri Lehko, they consolidate the pervasive feeling that Dwell is a uniquely inspired collaboration.

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»Every moment is nothing but the uttermost end of the past. Music makes this edge wide and beautiful.«

Sven Helbig is a German composer and producer known for combining orchestral and choral music with electronic elements and a strong poetic sensibility. A self-taught musician raised in Eisenhüttenstadt, he released his debut album Pocket Symphonies on Deutsche Grammophon to critical acclaim for its emotional depth and formal precision. Helbig has collaborated with ensembles such as the BBC Singers, Fauré Quartett, and Staatskapelle Dresden, as well as with artists like Rammstein and the Pet Shop Boys. He just released REQUIEM A on Deutsche Grammophon. It is a deeply personal and reflective composition, intertwining classical Latin liturgical texts with new ones written by Helbig himself. The work revolves around themes of loss, memory, and the possibility of renewal – with the »A« in the title symbolizing Anfang (beginning) and the belief in a new start after devastation.

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»Recently, I discovered that when a couple of thousand people clap their thick gloves in minus 30 degrees, it sounds like the softest techno – a freezing space where the cold air turns into a wave of warmth, and we, in a moment of collective devotion, become one with the rhythm, one with the invisible bond that connects us in the warmth of silence. Music is not just sounds, but a vain attempt to capture the infinite, which has always been and always will be.«

Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek has been the editor-in-chief of Seismograf since 2021. He is also a music critic and cultural journalist at Kristeligt Dagblad and Århus Stiftstidende/Avisen Danmark and has over the years written to publications such as Kunsten.nu, Glissando (Poland), Neural (Italy), Raw Vision (UK), Nutida Musik (Sweden), Kunstkritikk (DK/Sweden), Iscene.dk, B.T., and Jazz Special. He is the author (together with Lars Muhl) of the book HVA' SAA! En guidet rutsjebanetur gennem Aarhus – før, nu og i fremtiden (2024) and has also contributed to the anthology on music criticism Man skal høre meget (ed. Thomas Michelsen and Claus Røllum-Larsen, 2024). He is a founder and partner in the Polish-Danish cultural organization Kultur(a), and wherever there is a piano, he will be there, eager to coax a melody from it.

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»A lot is projected onto music and making music – I'm careful, singing doesn't make you more intelligent and certainly doesn't make you a better person. It's like in sexuality. A lot of things go very consciously wrong for some people. Music like sex are means of communication, people come into contact and negotiate with each other and their instruments/tools and meet themselves in it. This is also the case when I listen to music – from every conceivable genre and context, even if I always notice that as a teenager I used to play a lot of jazz guitar.«

Bastian Zimmermann lives in Munich and works freelance in the areas of music and performance. As a dramaturge, he works with artists such as the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop, Yael Ronen and Neo Hülcker. He is editor of the German speaking magazine Positionen – Texts on Current Music and curates projects such as »Music for Hotel Bars« and the festival Music Installations Nuremberg festival. His focus is on social aspects of making music, experimental music concepts and the questioning of bourgeois structures in contemporary music. In Spring 2025 he will take over the Wolke Verlag publishing house for books on music with Patrick Becker.