This evening’s programme is permeated by sounds of attraction. As if conjured up by magnetism, sounds are produced in the most diverse and imaginative ways when Gageego! plays limitless music by Cleare, Holloway-Nahum and Iannotta.
It is as if the music is invoked from whence it was previously barely possible to discern a contour of something. The words of philosopher Timothy Morton frame the entire process:
“Every aesthetic trace, every footprint of an object, sparkles with absence. Sensual things are elegies to the disappearance of objects.”
Performed by
Gageego!Aaron Holloway-Nahum conductor
Ivo Nilsson trombone
Programme
Ann Cleare on magnetic fields
Aaron Holloway-Nahum Days, distance, Days – commissioned work, first performance
Clara Iannotta We left her in a sack for fairies to reclaim
Conducted by composer Holloway-Nahum
American composer Aaron Holloway-Nahum has established himself as one of the key players on the British contemporary music scene. Although his career as a composer is impressive in its own right – he has composed on commission for, among others, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Third Coast Percussion – he has also had time to immerse himself and achieve success as a recording producer, conductor and art entrepreneur.
Aaron Holloway-Nahum is the conductor, CEO and artistic director of The Riot Ensemble, an organization whose work has generated more than £650,000 in contributions to the performance of contemporary music and which has premiered more than 250 original compositions. Aaron Holloway-Nahum’s music has been performed in around 20 countries worldwide and is characterized by its many details, ornate timbres, bold melodic unisons and experimental narrative structures.
Welcome to this year’s CONNECT festival in downtown Malmö. The theme Paradoxes explores its essence in music as well as in life. Gageego! will perform a string of brand new music by young composers. Free admission.
Programme
(ni random order)
Erik Valdemar Sköld Landvættir Serenade
Arvid Olson Fuurin
Agnes Salomonsson Motvals
Oskar Björkman Tribute to Cranton
Emanuele Maria Fiammetti Från Dimman
Alan Haksten Frente al Espejo
Alvi Joensen (Un)musical Parameters
Melina Ramberg Green Paradox
Step into a nocturnal sound world when the chamber ensemble Gageego! explores the possibilities of the organ and the ensemble in the enormous acoustics of the concert hall.
Inspired by the new concert hall organ, Swedish composer Madeleine Isaksson has written a brand new piece for Gageego! and organ. In tonight’s concert, we get to be part of the premiere.
We also hear Isaksson’s piece Fibers for flute, violin and guitar and Anna Korsun’s Spleen for bass flute, clarinet, barytone saxophone, violin and two cellos. And in Germany-based Marina Khrokova’s Installation, the organ’s entire tonal spectrum is explored. Hans Hellsten, professor at Malmö Academy of Music and specialist in contemporary organ music, is the soloist.
The concert is carried out with the support of The Swedish Arts Council.
Gothenburg International Organ Festival
Gothenburg International Organ Festival 2022 welcomes all ages to a world of passion and sound experiences. The festival is Northern Europe’s largest organ festival and has existed since 1994. A number of great musicians take part in workshops and concerts in Gothenburg’s Concert Hall and in Gothenburg’s largest churches.
The Concert Hall Organ
The new concert hall organ with its 9 000 pipes is behind the stage and the vibrations from the bass pipes extend under the floor all the way to the middle parquet.
Programme
Madeleine Isaksson Fibres, 2004 Marina Khorkova Installationen, 2011 Anna Korsun Spleen for singing ensemble, 2019 Madeleine Isaksson Infiltrations, 2022
In this live recording from Tryckeriet, Helsingborg 10 June 2022, we hear Hans Ek conducting Gageego!, Elefantöra and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.
Things take off with the premiere of the new piece Beats Sounds and Strings and continues with the concert in its entirety.
Ek Beats Sounds and Strings / Original Performance Kraftwerk Franz Schubert Moon Dog New Amsterdam Vivier Pulau Dewata Pärt Silouans Song Eno Emerald and Lime Kraftwerk Franz Schubert Ek Beats Sounds and Strings
The rural community Kalv is a small village, located in a scenic area in the southern part of Västra Götaland. A few summer days each year, wonderful and strange sounds emerge from all corners of the place. Gageego! will be among the artists performing.
Also participating are Varberg’s Chamber Choir and organist Johannes Landgren, conducted by Gunno Palmquist.
Programme
The concert contains a rich panorama of Swedish contemporary choir music and also connects withe the festival theme, Utopica Futura, with Hildegard of Bingen‘s music, but not least the central piece: Kalvfestivalen’s commissioned work, “Kindaholmsparafrasen” by the festival’s emeritus Max Käck! In addition, we will hear works by Britta Antonér, Arvo Pärt, Sven-David Sandström and Jan Yngwe.
The acclaimed children’s opera “I do not know who I am and I love it” returns with two performances during West Pride. The Opera Salon this time is the City Library’s auditorium at Götaplatsen, Gothenburg.
The libretto and dialogue is in Swedish.
Man Must Sing Edvin Nina Ewald The mother Amanda Flodin The father Karl Peter Eriksson
Gageego! Percussion Jonas Larsson Cello My Hellgren
Libretto Kristian Hallberg Music Daniel Fjellström Director Gunilla J Gyllenspetz Stage design/Costume Heidi Saikkonen Lighting Design Christofer W Fogelberg Make Up Design Linda Boije af Gennäs
Conductor and composer Hans Ek joins forces with ShareMusic & Performing Arts ensemble Elefantöra, contemporary music specialists Gageego! and the strings of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. The result is a sound experience born of a vision of inclusion and equality. You can’t label this music, it’s floating freely in the borderland between electronica and art music.
BEATS, SOUNDS AND STRINGS is a shape-shifting musical journey, consisting of a completely new work by Hans Ek commissioned by ShareMusic & Performing Arts – side by side with arrangements / re-mixes of music by, among others, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno and Claude Vivier in arrangement by Hans Ek. All this together with the string sections of Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. The electronic world and instruments of Elefantöra merge with Gageego’s acoustic presence, and any differences are blurred by the almost electronic sound of the strings.
In this collaboration, Hans Ek has created a new work by building directly on layers of beats created by Elefantöra. The base is a sampling library that Elefantöra in turn har created in collaboration with Gageego !. The vision of an inclusive and equal world is the core of music. We meet in the borderland between electronica and art music – at the crossroads where all the beaty is born.
ShareMusic’s vision is based on everyones right to express themselves artistically in a world where our differences are seen as valuable. Their work is based on human rights and the equal value of all human beings, especially people with disabilities. This musical collaboration pays homage to the beauty that is created where different perspectives meet.
In the words of Hans Ek
The project has started unconditionally and with equal emphasis on acoustic and electronic expressions. It will be both ambient and rhythmic. This is what the composer himself says:
–That feeling you can get when you watch a movie without knowing what it is – you just get into something and get swept away by it. You get on the ride and trust it somehow, and just experience it. I always hope for that kind of listening with the audience. And here, there are good preconditions for that.
This is not Hans Ek’s first cross-border project. The list of exciting collaborations is long: Zara Larsson, Laleh, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA), Veronica Maggio, Ane Brun, Renée Fleming, Michael Nyman, Metropole Orkest, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Phil and many more.
Hans worked for 10 years worked as the artistic director of Polar Music Prize. In recent years, Hans Ek’s own productions have been heard frequently both in Sweden and abroad. An example of this is E.S.T. Symphony, Bowie in Berlin, Eno remixed for orchestra, Chelsea Hotel, Kosmische Musik, Made by Björk, Studio 54-Disco Inferno and Dance Music Symphony.
And now another adventure awaits. You are invited.
The event kicks off on June 10 at Tryckeriet, where visitors are invited to a hypnotic, rhythm-laden but also ambient sound journey. The concert is part of H22 City Expo and tickets are free, but must be reserved online.
Programme
Ek Beats Sounds and Strings / Original Performance Kraftwerk Franz Schubert Moon Dog New Amsterdam Vivier Pulau Dewata Pärt Silouans Song Eno Emerald and Lime Kraftwerk Franz Schubert Ek Beats Sounds and Strings (Part 1 2 3)
Gageego! celebrates two pioneers: György Ligeti – who would have celebrated his 100th birthday next year – is celebrated with his wonderful 10 Pieces for Woodwind Quintet, and Karlheinz Stockhausen with the iconic Zeitmasse, the work that brought serialism to the time dimension. We also cast an eye towards the pioneers of the future in Swedish-French composer Madeleine Isaksson’s ingeniously layered web of sounds and timelines, Sondes, and in the Visby-based American Joseph Lake’s sprawling, vast and meditative This is one small stone in an entire city of monuments I am building for you.
Hungarian composer György Ligeti is one of the most important artists of the post-war period. He is in many ways a panorama through which the late musical achievements of the 20th century can be discerned, both through his aesthetic transformations and his varied residence: from labor camps under Nazism, to the avant-garde idealistic Central European mecca in Cologne, to Hollywood star-studded shimmer through not least film director Stanley Kubrick’s recurring use of his music.
Zeitmasse is one of the German pioneer composer Karlheinz Stockhausen‘s real breakthrough works. Like several of Stockhausen’s pieces, there are often shelves of analyzes to delve into. Overall, Zeitmasse is a first implementation of the systematics of serialism in the time dimension. Before that, serialism had only been found in the structuring of pitches, in Zeitmasse Stockhausen goes a step further.
Madeleine Isaksson‘s music is characterized by the floating and shimmering. The meticulous sounds are like layered tonal sculptures. There is a sensibility, and impressionistic color scheme that appears to explain why she decided to settle in Paris many years ago. Isaksson’s music looks organic, as if under the pace of music grows and takes shape – becomes form.
For a number of years, the American composer Joseph Lake has lived in Visby, where he teaches at Gotland’s composer school. An environment and place that is not so strange when you consider the sounds that Lake has been exploring for a long time. His musical appearance is characterized by a silence and a deep fascination for the richness of the individual tone.
This evening we will experience all this, with the Gothenburg-based ensemble Gageego! and conductor Rei Munakata.
