Bastard Assigments X Martin Hirsti-Kvam: Chambers in Chambers
Den Sorte Diamant
10th June 19.00
Programme
Martin Hirsti-Kvam: Chambers in Chambers (world premiere)
Note
To receive a set of headphones, please present your ticket for the concert in the Queen’s Hall. A limited number of headphones are available.
Chambers in Chambers is a site-specific sound walk for audience and three musicians from the performance ensemble Bastard Assignments through the foyer of the Black Diamond. The work takes its starting point in American composer Alvin Lucier’s piece Chambers (1968), where auditory spaces are recorded and then transplanted into smaller “resonant environments” such as tea pots, shoes, and seashells. In Martin Hirsti-Kvam’s reinterpretation, Luciers’ portable sound chambers are replaced with the virtual sound chambers of headphones. The performance, thus, is akin to a silent disco and the result is a polyphony of real and composed sounds, actual and imagined situations, times and places, past and presence.
The blending of the real and the virtual seen here is emblematic of the work of composer Martin Hirsti-Kvam, who created the sound walk specifically for the musicians from Bastard Assignments. His artistic practice is characterized by a deeply immersive utilization of everything from projections and binaural recording techniques to old recordings played through record players, cassette players, and FM-radios in an exploration of technology as an extension of the physical space. This makes him the ideal collaborator for Bastard Assignments, who have also worked extensively with the possibilities of this extended space.
Concert involves walking.
The participating musicians from Bastard Assignments are Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, and Josh Spear.
Venue
Den Sorte Diamant
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1 1221 København K
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Bastard Assignments
Bastard Assignments are Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, Caitlin Rowley, and Josh Spear, four composer-performers making experimental music. They work collaboratively and have developed a shared practice encompassing concert music, movement work, online pieces, text, video, and improvisation.
Martin Hirsti-Kvam (1991)
Martin Hirsti-Kvam is a Norwegian composer of conceptually oriented works. Utilizing electronics, visual elements, and sampling in dialogue with live performers, he attempts to give new perspectives and reflection to what constitutes music, listening, and live performance.
