Ellen Arkbro + Skogen + Chantler / Noble / Wright

Friday 16 March 2018

A woman with short hair is looking at the camera in a black and white setting, casting a shadow on a plain wall.

The Edition Festival heads to the new Alice venue in Copenhagen for a one-night 'Export Edition' on 16 March 2018 with performances by Ellen Arkbro, Skogen and the trio of John Chantler, Steve Noble and Seymour Wright.

ALICE website

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Den svenske festival Edition kuraterer et særligt program på ALICE. Kom omkring både benhård improvisationsmusik, minimalisme og sagte kammermusikalske klange, når Skogen, Ellen Arkbro og Chantler/Noble/Wright optræder. Præsenteres med støtte fra PULS.

Siden 2016 har den svenske festival Edition under kunstnerisk ledelse af John Chantler etableret sig som et af de væsentligste nordiske fora for krydsfeltet mellem improvisationsmusik og anden eksperimenterende samtidsmusik. Festivalen afholdes i februar på legendariske Fylkingen i Stockholm. I år har ALICE dog inviteret Edition til at kuratere en særlig aften i København. En aften, som indgår i ALICEs serie af arrangementer med fokus på nordiske kuratormiljøer - en serie, der støttes af Nordisk Kulturfonds særpulje PULS.

Ellen Arkbro

Den Stockholm-baserede komponist Ellen Arkbro formår at skabe en svævende og nærmest tidløs musik, der både vækker mindelser om musik fra middelalder og renæssance, New Yorks minimalisme/drone-musik fra 60'erne og nyere popmusik. Arkbro har præsenteret sine værker på steder som ISSUE Project Room i Brooklyn, Sound of Stockholm, Berlin Atonal og Sveriges Norbergfestival og har studeret under bl.a. La Monte Young og Marian Zazeela i New York. Denne aften præsenterer hun nye kompositioner for guitar og algoritmer.

Skogen

Under ledelse af pianist Magnus Granberg afsøger ensemblet Skogen et grænseland mellem moderne kammermusik og fri improvisation. I dynamikken imellem det improviserede og det komponerede opstår både sagte drama og uudgrundelig mystik, og der levnes plads til både kollektiv skabelse og til at de enkelte medlemmer af ensemblet træder frem med deres individuelle stemmer. Ensemblet optræder i skiftende opsætninger, men kan denne aften opleves som sekstet.

Anna Lindal: violin
Leo Svensson Sander: cello
Petter Wästberg: objekter og elektronik
Henrik Olsson: percussion, objekter og elektronik
Erik Carlsson: percussion
Magnus Granberg: præpareret piano

Chantler/Noble/Wright

Kunstnerisk leder af Edition Festival, John Chantler, har til aftenen også samlet sin nye trio med de to suveræne improvisationsmusikere Steve Noble (trommer) og Seymour Wright (saxofon). Begge er førende stemmer på Londons improv-scene og skaber i dialog med Chantlers synthesizer-arbejde et righoldigt univers mellem elektro-akustisk musik og jazz/improv. Trioen udsendte i 2017 albummet 'Front & Above', som The Quietus kaldte "A terrific set that quietly opens a portal to a new world."

Dørene åbner: kl. 20:00
Koncerten starter: kl. 21:00
Pris: 120 dkk inkl. gebyr

Ellen Arkbro is a Swedish composer and sound-artist primarily working with intervallic harmony in just intonation.

“A very radical saxophonist” – Evan Parker

Seymour Wright of Derby, his first solo album is widely considered to be a defining document of 21st-century, ‘inter-textual’ saxophone and now with his saxophone (mostly) no longer in pieces he has played in several often surprising and increasingly peculiar settings – from the on-going extreme twistings of lll人 (joined on one occasion by Otomo Yoshihide) and lll人lll (with Yuki Yamamoto, Howard Slater and Ute Kanngiesser), the lava flow of xomlatesc tbobnhi’s four-day London Jazz Festival residency and the robop-debut of CYNTHIA, to duets with Ute Kanngiesser (a rare public, many-year hebdomadal), Daniel Blumberg (Hebronix) and saxophonist John Butcher.

Increasingly he has been performing and recording music in more jazz-like settings too, exploring aspects of the early NYAQ and a certain jazz tradition in Steve Noble’s current group and performing the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik in أحمد‎ a newly convened quartet with Pat Thomas, Joel Grip and Antonin Gerbal. This on-going trajectory, through the weird, is making the range of his music making and collaborative creativity increasingly public.

John Chantler is a musician and organiser living in Stockholm, Sweden working with synthesis and exploring the aesthetic implications of different infrastructure for electronic music performance.

Originally from Australia he spent a decade in London before moving to Sweden in 2014 where he has directed an annual festival for ‘other music’ in Stockholm called Edition and runs Fönstret — releasing music by local artists and surfacing material from the festival’s archives.

Photo: Tore Sætre

Steve Noble

Steve Noble is London's leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O'Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more.

In the early eighties, Noble played with the Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, before going on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987, 89 and 90). He was featured in the Bailey's excellent TV series on Improvisation for Channel 4 based on his book ‘Improvisation; its nature and practise’.

He has toured and performed throughout Europe, Africa and America and currently leads the groups N.E.W (with John Edwards and Alex Ward) and DECOY (with John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins).

Photo: Anton Lukoszevieze

Magnus Granberg

Magnus Granberg is a composer and performer working at an intersection between contemporary chamber music and improvisation. He is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Born in Umeå in 1974, he studied saxophone and improvisation at the University of Gothenburg and in New York in his late teens and early twenties. Self-taught as a composer, he formed his own ensemble Skogen in 2005 trying to integrate experiences, methods and materials from various traditions of improvised and composed musics into a new modus operandi.

His music has been performed in Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, England, Austria, Hungary and Slovenia, broadcast by public radio channels in England (BBC Radio 3 and 6), Germany (SWR 2), Sweden (SR P2), Estonia, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary and the United States, and has been published by the renowned British record label Another Timbre.

https://magnusgranberg.se/