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When the first Sound Around
opens its doors on the 4th of October
2007 more than two weeks await with a number of concerts by recognised
Nordic and
International ensembles, seminars where the public and composers can
enter
into dialogue with one another, premieres of Danish, Swedish and
Chinese works, concerts for children and much more.
CHINA
A number of the biennale's
dialogue-partners come from China.
We place special focus on
the first composition class to complete their conservatory education in
Beijing after the Cultural Revolution. This group comprises prominent
names such as Guo Wenjing, Tan Dun and Liu Sola.
The opening concert for SOUND AROUND 2007 offers the premiere of Guo Wenjing's concerto for the classical Chinese string instrument the erhu, and the DR Vocal Ensemble follows up with Wenjing's Echoes of Heaven and Earth. Liu Sola and her performance orchestra will give concerts in both Malmö and Copenhagen, and the German Ensemble Modern present a portrait programme of this group of composers.
NEW
DIMENSIONS
Under the title of New Dimensions
SOUND AROUND offers
concerts and productions that cut across traditional genres. In
collaboration with the School of Architecture on Holmen concerts will
be presented, in which sound, light and space
will be explored with the Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR and BEAST. The concert with
the Danish Radio Sinfonietta will present
a pioneer work: Edgard Varèse's
Desérts with a
video by the acclaimed American artist Bill
Viola. This will be followed up by the premiere of the Swede Kent Olofsson's concerto for
accordion, electronics and choreographed orchestra.
This will take place in the School of Architecture's Banquet Hall and
when the Danish Radio Sinfonietta
move out, Birmingham
Electro Acoustic Sound Theatre will move in
with 100 loudspeakers and a mixing desk. BEAST present
for the first time in the Oresund region acousmatic music full blast and in full configuration.
At
PLEX in Copenhagen you are
invited to join in exploration and new experiences. The audience
can interact with installations or simply enjoy the bombardment of the
senses as onlookers. The Royal Danish Academy of Music's own festival, Pulsar, also opens a
window in Sound Around. Here young composers work together with both
local
and international players.
ÖRESUND'S
MUSIC
Premieres, new works, existing
central-works and new centres. The program for Oresund's Music presents
Scandinavian works performed by both local and international ensembles.
There are premieres of the youngest generation - Niels Rønsholdt and Daniel Hjorth a.o. – and the more
established - a.o. Pelle
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and Bent
Sørensen. It will also be possible to hear former
innovators such as Poul
Rovsing Olsen, Allan Pettersson
and Hilding Rosenberg.
It's for Kids! is SOUND AROUND's offer to the youngest audience. Malmö Symphony Orchestra presents concerts for children and the young in the project New Young Sounds. At PLEX there are free children's concerts during the Autumn holidays. Here The Danish Chamber Players will play live to the film Toy Circus, and the ancient gods of Valhalla receive new life in a storytelling concert with 4 Elements and the actor Pelle Kann. In Sandberg Explorer 2.0 the audience participates in a journey in music and sound, where Thomas Sandberg takes in the space, explores sounds and implements them in his musical universe. The audience is also involved, when The Letmark Quartet takes the children on a musical journey of sound and pictures and make them part of the concert.
WELCOME TO SOUND
AROUND 2007!
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University
of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities
The Royal
Danish Academy of Music
Musicology,
University
of Copenhagen
Danish
National Symphony Orchestra
Department
of Art History and Musicology, Lund University
Esbjerg Ensemble
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen
Cinemateket -
Danisk Film Institute
The Danish Writers
Association
The Danish Jewish Museum
Figura
MAIN SPONSORS:
INTERREG IIIA Oresund
Region,The European Fund for
Regional Development
Danish Composer's Society
Musik i Syd
FURTHER SPONSORS:
Beckett Fund
Danish Center for Culture and Development
Danish Choir Fund
Denmarks
National Bank's Jubilee Fund of 1968
King Frederik and Queen
Ingrid's Fund
Danish Art Foundation
Nordea Denmark Fund
Nordic Culture Fund
Pool for Art and Culture,
Copenhagen's Municipality
Sonning Fund
The Toyota Fund
Tuborg Fund
Thanks to Martin Stig Andersen, Jexper Holmen, Denis Smalley, Liu Sola Music Studio, Guo Wenjing/Nieuw Ensemble, Danacord, Phono Suecia, BIS Records and Naxos Denmark for lending music for the Internet radio.
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The inauguration of The Opera in Copenhagen in January 2005 and the planned inauguration of DR's new Concert Hall in Orestad in 2008 complete a development, that can potentially make the Oresund region the multicultural centre of Nothern Europe. Five symphony orchestras, a range of chamber ensembles and choirs of high international standard perform in the regions music venues from various epochs that represent the uppermost in relation to architecture and acoustics - from the newly restored Palladium in Malmö to The Opera in Copenhagen.
Hereby the Oresund region will become Northern Europe's biggest job market for classically trained musicians, singers and composers and a magnet for professional performers and creators from the EU and the rest of the world. Contemporary music is an important element in this scenario simply on the grounds of the region's educational potential with three music academies in Copenhagen and Malmö.
This forms the background for
the Oresund Biennale, whose primary purpose is to reinforce the
connections between the region's various musical forces and
contemporary music in an international context. SOUND AROUND will also
contribute to placing the Oresund region as one of
Europe's music capitals in the 21st century.
Educational project
SOUND AROUND is a part of the project: Contemporary Music in the Oresund Region.
Contemporary Music in the Oresund Region has the goal of in part strengthening collaboration between the higher music-educations in the region and in part between the region's music- and cultural institutions. In addition to a number of universities there are three conservatories in the Oresund region where sound technology, sound design and contemporary music play an important role. Students are, as the future's composers and producers of music, involved in setting the agenda for much of the music that will be presented in concert halls and music venues during the coming years.
Contemporary music in the Oresund
region aims to create a network and establish a range of
activities such as seminars and workshops leading up to the bienalle in
the Autumn of 2007.
The educational institutions involved are:
The Music
High School in Malmö, which is a part of Lund University and combines studies
in contemporary composition and improvised music.
The Royal
Danish Music Conservatory, which is an independent institution
under the Ministry of Culture
and exclusively concerns itself with composed music.
The
Musicological Institute, University
of Copenhagen , which
combines studies in musicology with the training of music teachers at
gymnasium level.
Department
of Art History and Musicology, Lund
University, which trains music researchers.
Institute for Communication, Business and
Information Technologies, department of Communication and Performance-design,
Roskilde University Centre,
which provides a new humanistic subject in which students learn to
arrange, execute and evaluate various forms of performance (events or
similar arrangements involving a live and participating public).
Each of these institutions has its own characteristic profile, and this is probably the reason why collaboration between them has typically unfolded as singular, mutually independent projects that have seldom resulted in structural changes and the collection of past experienece.
Contemporary Music in the Oresund
Region attempts, with respect for the various institutions' roots
in the national educational systems and music culture, to locate well
defined areas that can function as pilot projects and lead to an
intensified and integrated cooperation between institutions.
Contemporary
Music in the Oresund Region furthermore promotes the general
development of cooperation between the various music education
instituions in the Oresund region, since they can experience
difficulties in financing a multifaceted education and a sufficiently
large research environment. If one therefore on a large scale
cooperates across the Oresund on educational programs with reference to
teaching and research one can more easily create a larger base for more
wide-ranging education and research, and at the same time reach a
number of rationalization gains. Furthermore one could mutually
cooperate on joint courses, avoid dupication, etc.
