{"id":33332,"date":"2025-02-05T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gageego.se\/?p=33332"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:46:19","slug":"the-wild-baby-has-grown-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gageego.se\/en\/the-wild-baby-has-grown-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Baby has grown up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ever-curious and virtuoso musicians of the ensemble Gageego! look back on 30 years of successful exploration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a translation from Swedish of an article in Podiet No 3, 2024\u20132025<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ensemble was founded in Gothenburg in 1995 and has since then worked for contemporary music with tireless dedication and passion. The name itself is an uninhibited exclamation \u2013 it is said to come from a legend about a lone wanderer who uttered the very first human word: \u201cGAGEEGO!\u201d In the same story, the answer was not long in coming: \u201c-Huh???\u201d The wanderer had an audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anders Jonh\u00e4ll, flutist, thinks that the legend puts the finger on how far the ensemble is prepared to go to expand listening and challenge and enchant its audience. Together with Johanna Persson, viola, and Daniel Norberg, percussion, Anders Jonh\u00e4ll has been with the group since its inception in Gothenburg in 1995<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 We have always played what we think is fun. Otherwise it wouldn\u2019t work. It is the curiosity about interesting music that drives us, says Anders Jonh\u00e4ll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of contemporary pieces by Swedish and foreign composers have been premiered and specially written for Gageego! over the years. Many works only reach their final form when the musicians add their own artistry at the highest level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Composers always have wishes and it is up to us to express them. The fun is meeting them and being challenged! says Anders Jonh\u00e4ll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the audience, the concerts always involve something unexpected: atonal sounds, electronic effects, movement exercises, speech and improvisation. No one is safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 As an audience, you don’t know at all what harmonies you’re going to hear. Part of the experience is not knowing what’s going to happen, says Anders Jonh\u00e4ll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there are loyal fans who have followed the experimental group over the years. \u201cWith Gageego! I feel like I can let go of the need to understand\u2026 Music always gives rise to new thoughts!\u201d Aina Nordqvist said in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra general program a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the exciting names the audience met were composers such as Stuart Saunders Smith, Djuro Zivkovic, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Madeleine Isaksson and not least the conductor Peter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s. One of Anders Jonh\u00e4ll’s favorite memories is the theater music Pour une for\u00eat de symboles<\/em> by Vinko Globokar from 2006. Anders himself served champagne on stage and spoke into a megaphone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 M\u00e5rten Landstr\u00f6m had a seagull. Johan Stern painted M\u00e5rten’s face. It really was a whole forest of symbols!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 30-year-old ensemble Gageego! is now old enough to get married and active in a number of projects and constellations. An upcoming performance is a newly written opera<\/a> by Maria Lithell Flyg with the Gothenburg Company Man Must Sing at Cinnober Teater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anniversary in Stenhammarsalen<\/a> will be celebrated with a cavalcade of works that have been played over the years. The composers have all been part of shaping the ensemble. There will also be an introduction before the concert where there will be a chance to meet some of the evening’s musicians and composers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text: Jenny Svensson
Photo: Anna Hult<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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