Parkområdet foran Statens museum for kunst

TONE RAIN

by Tobias Kirstein

The sounds will blend with the everyday noise: the ongoing traffic, passers-by, the movement of the performers, the click of the ghetto blaster buttons. Maybe it will be like rain: irritatingly cold and at the same time beautiful to watch. This piece is about the space in which it can be heard.

POSITION


A Moveable Position-oriented Soundpiece for Ghettoblaster-band

By Jakob Brandt-Pedersen


The intension of the composition is to create a soundpiece that emphasizes the site where it is performed, and that the site directs the movements in the composition, and otherwise is included in the composition by the way it reflects the sounds comming from the ghettoblasters.

During the piece the ghettoblasters move from one position to the next. These positions will be among the audience, so that they will be surrounded by sounds. The positions can be in open clusters or tight formations. The movement starts slow but during the piece the movement speeds up, so that, in the middle section, the ghetthoblasters rapidly moves to the next postion without any pause. Then the movement slows down again. The sounds from the ghettoblasters is mainly sine-waves with different frequencies. The frequencies change in the same manner as the ghettoblasters movements. The frequencies also affect each other, creating interference-frequencies.

Position was originally made for the Øster Voldgade in Copenhagen, put can be performed at any street or square. The different places can lead to new positions.

H.C. Andersens Boulevard is one of the places in inner Copenhagen where there is most traffic. Glyptoteket is an honourable art museum that besides some classical concerts now and then, is lying silently between sparkling Tivoli and the horns and pianos which can be heard from the windows of the Royal Academy of Music.

Here Ssshhhhh’s ghetto blaster orchestra is placed as an accelerator to accentuate an blend with the existing sounds. Sounds form cars, bicycles, traders, people partying, tooting, singing and so on are merged into a carpet of sounds to make a sound relief to the sounds already in the street. The director’s job is to sonically navigate the musicians around in the traffic in order to accentuate and reflect the intensity of the city streets which its sounds is an inseparable part of.

DISTILLATES & CONCENTRATIONS

Composition in 4 parts

by Jakob Riis

Condensed sounds of various epochs, handed over in distillates and concentrations, parts themselves from their source, in an exhibition for potential new insights and recognitions. Different angles of the sounds are exposed in the various parts of the composition.

FALLING DRONES - A DISAPPEARING ACT

by Jørgen Teller

A piece using very very very short sample-loops that, by constant prolooooooooooooooooongiiing, creates several falling drones. These travels through their own over-, sub'n'dub tones. During this the sharpest silences of the night sky will meet with the implosions of miscellaneous landing matter. At the premiere the 8 ghetto blasters were boldly used to redirect the orbit of the earth around the planet of the night.

All the sounds in this piece are based on unique recordings of sounds of the entrance and outrance of Christiansborg - the Danish parliament - and her surroundings.