Abstract Trumpet Ensemble + Svømme Redux (Vinterjazz)

Tør man sige, at en af årets mest unikke Vinterjazz-oplevelser venter denne aften i Brønshøj Vandtårn? Vær med, når en abstrakt trompetkvartet udforsker trompetens grænser og strækker instrumentets lyd mod det uendelige mellem tårnets betonvægge og søjler. Og oplev samme aften lydinstallationen Svømme Redux trække vandet tilbage i vandtårnet og omslutte publikum i et hav af lyde.

Svømme Redux – lydinstallation

"Svømme" var et tværfagligt projekt med fokus på fællesskab i forbindelse med gruppesvømning og improvisation. I fem måneder mødtes ni svømmere/musikere hver uge – både i vinterens kolde og sommerens beroligende varme vand. På baggrund af de kollektive akvatiske oplevelser improviserede de musik.

"Svømme Redux" er en lydinstallation og performance, der reflekterer over processen og den forskning, der lå til grund for "Svømme". Med håndlavede resonator-højttalere spredt ud over Brønshøj Vandtårn er "Svømme Redux" en invitation til fordybelse i vores forhold til vand og hinanden. Gennem feltoptagelser af performance, øvning, svømmesessioner og undervandsoptagelser tager installationen publikum med på en rejse gennem tid og rumklang og udforsker vandets soniske og sociale egenskaber.

PJ Fossum - lydkunstner
https://on.soundcloud.com/WDmR5okAXMwU4Sv68

Abstract Trumpet Ensemble – trompetkvartet

"Abstract Trumpet Ensemble" er en kvartet bestående af fire trompetister fra Københavns rige avantgardescene, der radikalt udfordrer opfattelsen af instrumentet, og hvad der er muligt at spille kun med krop, luft og trompet.

Bandet er baseret på én idé: Hvor langt kan trompeten strækkes lydmæssigt? Og hvad er muligt med kun den menneskelige krop og trompeten som instrument? Gennem en innovativ tilgang til, hvordan man laver lyd med trompeten, har bandet glemt alt, hvad de har lært på instrumentet og er begyndt igen fra begyndelsen med at bruge ekstreme kropslige teknikker til at producere andre verdslige lyde og kompositioner.

Gruppen fokuserer på at tage konceptet med udvidede instrumentale teknikker til en ny yderlighed gennem ikke-hierarkiske og improvisationsbaserede formater, der udnytter ensartetheden af et helt trompetensemble i dets fulde omfang.

• Petra Sanggaard - Trompet
• Ben Rodney - Trompet
• Erik Kimestad - Trompet
• Håkon Guttormsen - Trompet

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Dare we say that one of the year's most unique Winter Jazz experiences awaits this evening in Brønshøj Water Tower? Join us as an abstract trumpet quartet explores the limits of the trumpet and stretches the instrument's sound towards infinity between the tower's concrete walls and columns. On the same evening, experience the sound installation Svømme Redux pulling the water back into the water tower and enveloping the audience in a sea of sounds.

Svømme Redux - Sound Installation

Svømme was a trans-disciplinary project focussed on community in the context of group swimming and improvisation. For five months, 9 swimmers/musicians met every week to face adverse cold waters through winter all the way into the soothing waters of summer. With the group’s collective aquatic experiences as inspiration, they improvised music that was as immersive as the frigid waters of the Baltic sea, relying on their interconnectivity and network of experience to hold each other in a musical space.

Svømme Redux is an audio installation and performance that reflects on the process and research for Svømme. With handmade resonator-speakers spread throughout Brønshøj Vandtårn, it is an immersion into our relationship with water and each other through the aquatic. Through field recordings of performance, rehearsal, swimming sessions and underwater recordings the installation takes the audience on a journey through time and reverberation using the sonic and social properties of water.
PJ Fossum - sound artist
https://on.soundcloud.com/WDmR5okAXMwU4Sv68

Abstract Trumpet Ensemble - Trumpet Quartet

"Abstract Trumpet Ensemble" is a quartet of four trumpet players from Copenhagen’s rich avant-garde scene who radically challenge the perception of the instrument and what is possible to play using only the body, air and the trumpet.

The band is based on one idea: How far can the trumpet be sonically stretched and what’s possible with only the human body and the trumpet as an instrument. Through an innovative approach of how to make sound with the trumpet, the band has forgotten everything they have learned on the instrument and started again from the beginning using extreme bodily techniques to produce other worldly sounds and compositions.

The group focuses on taking the concept of extended instrumental techniques to a new extreme through non-hierarchical and improvisation-based formats, utilising the uniformity of an all-trumpet ensemble to its fullest extent.

• Petra Sanggaard - Trumpet
• Ben Rodney - Trumpet
• Erik Kimestad - Trumpet
• Håkon Guttormsen - Trumpet