Now, we are launching “Guess that Sound!”, a series of sound quizzes related to whatever we’re up to at the moment.
So, what exactly is it you hear in this first clip?
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Review: “Unison jungle roars”
Critic Martin Nyström från Stockholm daily DN visited Gageego!’s jubilee concert – and he liked what he heard.
The review also includes a super compact recap of the 20 first years of Gageego!, from the first concert to todays position as one of Sweden’s leading ensembles for contemporary music.
Here, the collaborations with and interest in female composers is emphasized, as is the playfullness and openness of Gageego!.
Read the review at DN.se (in Swedish)!
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Video: LINIER
A performance by choreographer Gun Lund, E=mc² Dance and music ensemble Gageego!
Music by Luciano Berio, Victor Varela and Lars Sandberg.
Dancers: Gunilla Jansson, Adèle St-Aubin, Karin Taliga, Åsa Thegerström.
Musicians: Mikael Kjellgren, Mårten Landström (piano), Jonas Larsson, Per Sjögren (percussion)Premiered at 3:e Våningen in Göteborg September 2015.
Duration of performance: approx 50 minutes (the documentation is 40 minutes, without intermission between the two dance sections.)
The dance piece LINIER is based on a music composition – Linea (1973) – by Luciano Berio. One of the artist’s references is by Umberto Eco’s notion of the “open work.” In the words of Berio himself when describing Linea, the choreographer Gun Lund opens the piece “as a lost object being rediscovered and thus being seen with a different and more penetrating gaze.
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Review: “Superbly performed”
More acknowledgments from major Swedish daily DN, noting “the teeming world of sound, superbly performed by Gageego! under David Björkman’s leadership, which in itself is worth the visit. “
DN visited the Swedish premiere of Prospero’s Garden, a chamber opera by Ming Tsao. Gageego! appeared as the opera chapel.
Read the review (in Swedish) at DN.se!
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Gageego! swag to celebrate in
Crazy from all these 20-years-celebrations, we have been persuaded to offer Gageego!-merchandise. So, be sure to dress up in our comfy tees!
They are made to order, deliveries can take up to 2 – 4 weeks depending on model. So why wait?
Here are some of the variations – click the image to order!
Gageego! Attitude Overprint Shirt 
20 Gageego! 
Gageego! 20 – nyfiken på nu A few more variations can be found here…
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Pendants
Pendants
Jesper Nordin
Label: Phono Suecia PSCD 192
Release: juni, 2012Review: DN.se
Nominated for Nutida Sound 2013 for best contemporary musicBuy and listen: CDON.com | iTunes Store | Spotify | Apple Music
Pendants means “jewelry”, “prisms” or “pendant” in English, and in French “in the meantime” and “waiting”. All of this fits into the description of Jesper Nordin’s music. In the final movement of the title track Pendants, Asian bells are allowed to swing and strike together freely and improvisationally, just as Nordin composes.
For Jesper Nordin, the creative moment is central. He has himself developed a digital drawing board to become an instrument for improvisation.
A line can be traced back to the late 1950s when Giacinto Scelsi played music on his keyboard, the ondiola. Nordin has been working with improvisational music for years. At the same time, there are two more important pieces of the puzzle: Nordin comes from an ancient family of fiddlers, but his first musical steps were taken in a completely different context, namely punk. All of this may seem like sound worlds that are impossible to reconcile, but for Jesper Nordin it is about a huge sound bank to exploit.
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Die Geisterinsel
Die Geisterinsel
Ming Tsao
Label: Kairos 0013372KAI
Release: June 2012Reviews: il Corriere Musicali | Neue Zeitschrift für Musik | Opera Lively | Kultiversum
A chamber opera based on Sheakpeare’s The Tempest.
Featuring: Staatsoper Stuttgart, Tajana Raj, Claudio Otelli, Daniel Kluge, Hans Kremer, Stefan Merki, Orpheus Vocal Ensemble, Stefan Schreiber, Rei Munakata, Cecilia Vallinder and Gageego!
Buy and listen: iTunes Store | Spotify | Apple Music
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Flauto con forza
Flauto con forza
André Chini
Work: Icaregag
Label: Phono Suecia PHOPSCD173
Release: February, 2008Reviews: Grammophone | Sveriges Radio
Buy and listen: CDON.se | iTunes Store | Spotify | Apple Music
“Playing with the meanings of virtuosity – its technical and human challenges, the meeting of the virtuose and the lyrical.”